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Equal Justice Works Across America
A state-by-state, point-and-click roster of Members and Fellows
2009 Summer Corps Members in California
| NAME | HOST ORGANIZATION | CITY |
| Saira Aguilar | Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
| Stephanie Alford | Sacramento Child Advocates | Sacramento |
| Len Aslanian | HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, Inc. | Los Angeles |
| James Banh | Asian Pacific American Legal Center | Los Angeles |
| Jan-Erick Baqurian | Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California | Los Angeles |
| Kristine Borgia | Neighborhood Legal Services | El Monte |
| Rachel Brewer | Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers | Monterey Park |
| Kevin Burton | Legal Aid Society of San Diego | San Diego |
| Lauren Calton | Alliance for Children's Rights | Los Angeles |
| Parneet Chauhan | California Appellate Project San Francsico | San Francisco |
| Marsha Chien | California Rural Legal Assistance | Stockton |
| Joel Crespo | Public Law Center | Santa Ana |
| Errol Dauis | Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
| Frederick Doan | Asian Pacific American Legal Center | Los Angeles |
| Lyndsey Eadler | Santa Clara County Public Defender | San Jose |
| Melissa Earls | The Children's Law Center of Los Angeles | Monterey Park |
| Katherine Elgin | Cancer Legal Resource Center | Los Angeles |
| Kelly Everett | Los Angeles Public Defender | Los Angeles |
| Nahal Foladifard | Bet Tzedek Legal Services | Los Angeles |
| Ashley Goergen | Eviction Defense Collaborative | San Francisco |
| Tina Han | Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law | Los Angeles |
| Jessica Hawari | Children's Law Center of Los Angeles | Monterey Park |
| Lauren Hazarian | Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County | Santa Barbara |
| Krista Henneman | San Francisco Office of the Public Defender | San Francisco |
| Sharon Horner | Sacramento Child Advocates, Inc. | Sacramento |
| Albert Huang | East Bay Community Law Center | Berkeley |
| David Joerger | Public Counsel/Adoptions Project | Monterey Park |
| Joshua Johnson | Equal Justice Society | San Francisco |
| Melissa Johnson | Institute for Administrative Justice | Sacramento |
| Mira Kasliwal | Law Offices of the Public Defender - Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
| Bridget Keto | Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office | Los Angeles |
| Samantha Kohler | Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Health Consumer Action Center | Santa Ana |
| Matthew Kruse | Yolo County Public Defender's Office | Woodland |
| Gary Lewis | Homeless Advocacy Project | San Francisco |
| Heather Marks | YWCA Legal Clinics | San Diego |
| Nicole Marquez | California Rural Legal Assistance | San Francisco |
| James Moore | Public Law Center | Santa Ana |
| Leila Moshref | Public Law Center | Santa Ana |
| Pooja Nair | Mental Health Advocacy Services | Los Angeles |
| Paul Park | Asian Pacific American Legal Center | Los Angeles |
| Joanna Parnes | Homeless Advocacy Project (Bar Assoc. of San Francisco's VLSP) | San Francisco |
| Erin Peck | Stanislaus County Public Defender's Office | Modesto |
| Leah Price | Alameda County Public Defenders Office | Oakland |
| Luis Rodriguez | Public Counsel Law Center | Los Angeles |
| Jeanne Schoenfelder | East Bay Community Law Center | Berkeley |
| Michael Silhasek | Disability Rights Legal Center | Los Angeles |
| Christine Start | Contra Costa Public Defender | Martinez |
| Sunny Stevenson | Sacramento Child Advocates, Inc. | Sacramento |
| Naomi Strand | Public Interest Law Project | Oakland |
| Al Sturgeon | Public Counsel Law Center | Los Angeles |
| Aaron Tang | Public Advocates | San Francisco |
| Manuel Ugarte Jr. | East Bay Community Law Center | Berkeley |
| Shelby Vandenberg | Alliance for Children's Rights | Los Angeles |
| Dana Vessey | Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. | Los Angeles |
| Summer Volkmer | Homeless Advocacy Project (Bar Assoc. of San Francisco's VLSP) | San Francisco |
| Georgina Wakefield | Housing Rights Center | Los Angeles |
| Catherine Yoon | Asian Pacific American Legal Center | Los Angeles |
| Jonah Zern | Bay Area Legal Aid | Oakland |
Contact
Shirley Hochhausen
1735 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 238-9384
shochhausen@equaljusticeworks.org
West Coast News
Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. People may be effectively ``outing'' themselves just by the virtual company they keep. ``Even if you don't affirmatively post revealing information, simply publishing your friends' list may reveal sensitive information about you, or it may lead people to make assumptions about you that are incorrect,'' said Kevin Bankston, [Equal Justice Works Alumnus] senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights organization in San Francisco. ``Certainly if most or many of your friends are of a particular religious or political or sexual category, others may conclude you are part of the same category - even if you haven't said so yourself.''