ANNUAL REPORT FY22

OUR MISSION
Advance the rights of under-represented individuals and families in our diverse community through legal services, strategic advocacy, and educational outreach

OUR VISION 
To achieve social justice in Silicon Valley and beyond through vigorous legal advocacy

Everyone in Silicon Valley should be a part of our success story.

This Law Foundation Annual Report will share stories of our clients—and our many partners and supporters who make the work of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley possible. The remarkable impact we have in reaching 10,000 individuals and families each year is because of you.

As the region’s largest legal nonprofit, we work determinedly to address social injustices like poverty, discrimination, and child abuse. Our free legal services, education programs, and advocacy are deeply woven into the communities we serve.

Working and living in one of the most innovative and thriving places on earth, we have been blessed by opportunities and advantages. But these advantages are not shared equitably.

Our attorneys, social workers, and advocates provide quality legal services to level the playing field. Together we are keeping people in housing by fighting evictions and securing a fair return of security deposits. Those struggling with mental health issues receive representation and knowledge of their rights in advocating for care. Children, including foster children, suffering in unstable home or school environments have an advocate for their most critical needs.

Your support provides meaningful access to justice for those who need legal advocacy and representation but cannot afford it. These successes are our shared successes.

Whatever the future may hold, the Law Foundation remains committed to serving our neighbors. We remain focused on social justice and equity for all. We continue to adapt our programs and methods of service to meet emerging needs.

Thank you for walking this path with us to advance the rights of those who are under-represented.

Alison Brunner, Esq.
Chief Executive Officer

Melissa Hollatz, Esq.
President, Board of Directors FY22-23

CHILDREN & YOUTH

Your support advances the legal rights of children and youth, empowering them to lead healthy and productive lives. We provide free legal assistance and advocacy to support children and youth in the foster care system, who need probate guardianship, are facing education challenges like expulsion, and so much more.

Safety and Racial Equity in Our Schools
Police presence in schools disproportionately impacts students of color and students with disabilities. The Law Foundation joined advocates from the San José Unified Equity Coalition to end police presence across the San José Unified School District and create a safer school environment for every student.

HOUSING

Every day those struggling due to the regional housing affordability crisis receive free help and advocacy. Low-income families and individuals receive caring and competent representation when navigating issues like unfair evictions, housing discrimination, or applying for rental subsidies and assistance.

Amid the Silicon Valley Housing Crisis, Stable RV Living in Mountain View Remains
Throughout Silicon Valley, many local governments penalize unhoused people or families and individuals with non-traditional homes, such as those living in RVs. We successfully fought against one of these measures in the city of Mountain View.

HEALTH

Those living with health and mental health issues can receive free legal advice and representation. This includes helping disabled individuals to receive the public benefits they are entitled to, providing legal help to those experiencing homelessness, and advocating for the rights of those experiencing acute mental health crises.

Advocating for the Health and Well-Being of Unhoused People
Our team continues to advocate for people living without shelter throughout Silicon Valley. Staff regularly visit encampments in San Jose and advise residents about their legal rights and options. In early May 2022, the San Jose City Council discussed the City's encampment management plan and the planned sweeps of Guadalupe River Park. Law Foundation attorneys submitted an advocacy letter in advance of the meeting.

PRO BONO

The Law Foundation’s Pro Bono Program leverages the talent of attorneys and staff from law firms and corporate legal departments to help more clients than we would with just our in-house attorneys. Our pro bono attorney volunteers dedicate their time and expertise to provide high-quality legal services. Our non-attorney pro bono volunteers also provide a wide variety of services to Law Foundation attorneys in areas like paralegal support, website and graphic design, forensics, and data analysis.

RACE EQUITY

As a social justice organization, the Law Foundation is committed to increasing access to justice for low-income families and communities of color. As lawyers and legal advocates, we understand that laws are not colorblind. Race equity is at the core of the Law Foundation’s vision to eradicate racial disparities and the systems that perpetuate them. And we must hold ourselves accountable to ensuring that the Law Foundation’s staff reflects the community we serve, that our systems change work is done in coalition with community members, and that our work is rooted in racial justice and equity.

FY2022 FINANCIALS

Revenue & Support

Expenses

Supporters

Your generous support allows us to provide equal access to the law and fight social injustices. Together, we are creating real and lasting change.

2022 Annual Partners

Headlining - $150,000


Platinum - $110,000+


Gold - $75,000


Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Palladium - $50,000

Macrae, Inc.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale & Dorr LLP

Sidley Austin LLP


Silver - $35,000

Covington & Burling LLP 

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 

Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP


Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Copper - $25,000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise 

Hogan Lovells US LLP

NetApp 

NVIDIA Corporation

Synopsys, Inc.


Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 

eBay, Inc. 

Foley & Lardner LLP

Silicon - $15,000

Intel Corporation 

Jackson Lewis P.C. 

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Paul Hastings LLP 

Ropes & Gray LLP 

Sheppard Mullin

Venable LLP 

VMware, Inc. 

White & Case LLP


Alston & Bird LLP 

Apple 

Applied Materials Foundation 

Baker McKenzie 

Bartlit Beck LLP 

Iron - $10,000

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 

Choate, Hall, & Stewart LLP 

Coinbase, Inc. 

Cornerstone Research 

Elevate 

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Fish & Richardson P.C. 

Greenberg Traurig, LLP 

JAMS 

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Merrill Lynch 

Meta Platforms 

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP


In-Kind

ZAG Technical Services

Pro Bono Partners

Adobe, Inc.
Aledade, Inc.
Alston & Bird, LLP
Amazon, Inc.
Ankura Consulting Group, LLC
Apple, Inc.
Augmented Radar Imaging, Inc.
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Baker McKenzie
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
CapitalG
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Coca-Cola
Coinbase Inc.
Comerica Bank
Confluent, Inc.
Cooley LLP

DLA Piper LLP
eBay Inc.
Empire Search Partners, LLC
Evergreen Valley College
Facebook, Inc.
Fenwick & West LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goodwin & Procter LLP
Greenfield, LLP
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Intel Corporation
Ironclad, Inc.
JAMS
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
LinkedIn Corporation

Looker Data Sciences, Inc.
Lyten, Inc.
McManis Faulkner
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
NetApp, Inc.
Netflix, Inc.
O'Melveny & Myers, LLP
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Patient Square Capital
PayPal, Inc.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
San Jose State University
Santa Clara Law
Shutterfly, Inc.
Sidley Austin LLP

Simson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Stanford Law
Synopsys, Inc.
Toppan Merrill
University of Michigan Law
Veenker Law Offices & Dispute Resolution
VMware, Inc.
Wilmer Cutler Picking Hale & Dorr LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Winston & Strawn LLP
Zynga, Inc.

Leadership

Alison Brunner
Chief Executive Officer

Tristia Bauman
Directing Attorney

Andrew Cain
Directing Attorney

Nora Carranza
Supervising Social Worker 

Cynthia Chagolla
Chief Program Officer

Carrie Chung
Development Manager

Amber De Buizer
Chief Development Officer

Nuemi Guzman
Community Housing Advocate Supervisor

Ritu Goswamy
Acting Directing Attorney

Brooke Heymach
Pro Bono Directing Attorney 

Sarah Hinks
Supervising Attorney

Amanda Kennedy
Supervising Attorney

Maria Vazquez Mata
Chief Operating Officer

Chantal Kurpiewski
Contracts Manager

Nathan Lingat-Thomas
Director of Impact & Evaluation 

Alexis Moody
Supervising Attorney

Melanie Ovanezian
Controller

Sarah Rocklin
HR Director

Monica Rodriguez 
Development Manager

Linny Ruffolo
HR Manager 

Tamara Schane
Acting Supervising Attorney

Julia Souza
Supervising Attorney

Vicky Vargas
Operations & HR Admin Manager

Staff

Sadiya Ahmed, Staff Attorney

Tiffany Akeo, Senior Social Worker

Asha Albuquerque, Lead Attorney

Cynthia Alvarado, Social Worker

Kimberly Arezalez,
Community Education Advocate

Christina Arregoces, Senior Attorney

Katy Bailon, Executive Administrator

Rebecca Basson, Staff Attorney

Christine Berbelis, Senior Attorney

Tomoko Bergan, Senior Attorney

Keisha Buenconsejo, Social Worker

Lucy Carlos, Senior Social Worker

Jorge Casas Cuellar,
Community Housing Advocate

Jeremy Chen, Staff Attorney

Rosa Contreras Rivera,
Administrative Assistant/Interpreter

Carla Cox, Senior Attorney

Angela Crawford, Social Worker

Diana Maldonado,
Legal Administrative Assistant

Teresa Magaña, Senior Office
Manager/Contracts Coordinator

Kate Manning, Senior Attorney

April McCoy, Senior Attorney

Jeanine McKelvey, Senior Attorney

Rachel Mino, Lead Senior Staff Attorney

Wanjiku (Kazi) Muhire, JD Advocate

Jeffrey Murtha, Staff Attorney

Lo Negron, Staff Attorney

Christine Nguyen,
Community Health Advocate

Elizabeth Pacheco Tejada, Senior Attorney

Ji Yong Park, Staff Attorney

Maria Perez, Staff Attorney

Leslie Ramirez, Senior Legal Secretary

Mayra Ramirez, Intake Specialist

Jennifer Resendiz, Office Administrator

Nicole Robinson, Senior Social Workers

Moira Cullen, Staff Attorney

Anita Dhanvanthari, Staff Attorney

Ben Ebert, Senior Attorney

Gracen Eiland, Registered Legal Aid Attorney

Kianna Evans, JD Advocate

Jazmin Garcia, Community Health Advocate

Ruben Garcia Jr.,
Community Housing Advocate

Laura Gardner, Legal Secretary

Steve Goetze, Senior Clinical Social Worker

Anh Ho, Community Tenant Organizer

Jenny Hoang, Social Worker

Megan Hugel, Senior Development Associate

Felisa Ihly, Pro Bono Specialist

Jacqueline Judson, Staff Attorney

Rebeca Lazo, Community Housing Advocate

Janice Lu, Staff Attorney

Hanson Lu, Community Housing Advocate

Margarita Maiz-Vazquez, Paralegal

Kelly Rodriguez, Senior Attorney

Luis Rodriguez, Lead Community
Housing Advocate

Shelby Rogers, JD Advocate

Melanie Roland, Senior Attorney

Anuja Saggi, Senior Attorney

Katie Sexton, Staff Attorney

Cindy Tran, Lead Community
Housing Advocate

Sharla Tran, JD Advocate

Lil Turner, Senior Attorney

Claudia Uribe, Community Housing Advocate

Nadia Vargas, Community Housing Advocate

Arianna Vasquez, Staff Attorney

Jane Wong, Staff Attorney

Joanna Xing, Lead Attorney

Board of Directors

Executive Officers

Melissa Hollatz
President
Community Leader

Elizabeth Pipkin
Past President
McManis Faulkner

Erik Olson
Treasurer
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Catherine Zinn
Secretary
Baker Botts L.L.P.


Michael D. Celio
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Neel Chatterjee
Goodwin Procter LLP

Calise Cheng
Cooley LLP

Rodger Cole
Fenwick & West LLP

Alexis Coll
Domo, Inc.

Matthew Fawcett
Community Leader

Adam Fliss
Patient Square Capital

Mark D. Fowler
DLA Piper LLP

Richard G. Frenkel
Latham & Watkins LLP

Jeremiah Gordon
CaptialG

Darryl Grant
Toppan Merrill

Paul Singh Grewal
Coinbase 

Willie Hernandez
Coca-Cola

Natasha Innocenti
Empire Search Partners, LLC

Deanna L. Kwong
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Emily M. Lam
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP 

Thomas F. Larkins
Community Leader

Yabo Lin
Sidley Austin LLP

Scott Maples
Community Leader

Brian M. Martin
Lyten, Inc.

Sonal N. Mehta
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
& Dorr LLP 

Suzan Miller
Community Leader

Elizabeth O’Callahan
NetApp

Richard J. Ostiller
Ankura Consulting Group, LLC

Laura M. Owen
Community Leader

Phuong Phillips
Aledade, Inc.

Melynnie Rizvi
TikTok

Mark Rowland
Ropes & Gray LLP

Rick Runkel
Synopsys, Inc.

Melanie Vinson
Confluent, Inc.

Michael Zuckert
Community Leader

Mitchell Zuklie
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Alison Brunner
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley