Our Board

Learn more about our Board members below. In effort to promote transparency, we have also included the demographics of our Board members.

Karen Kazmerzak, Secretary

Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

[She/Her/Hers]

Miranda Petersen, Chair

Attorney, Williams & Connolly LLP

[She/Her/Hers]

Alicia J. Paller

Attorney, Hogan Lovells US LLP

[She/Her/Hers]

Stephana J. Henry

Associate, Akin Gump

[She/Her/Hers]

Whitney Case

Associate Director, US Department of Treasury

[She/Her/Hers]

Patrice Sulton

Executive Director, DC Justice Lab

[she/her/hers]

Molly Levinson

Founder & CEO of The Levinson Group (TLG)

[She/Her/Hers]

Mona Mittal

Paulo Pontemayor

Director of Government Relations for the Catholic Health Association of the United States

[HE/Him/His]

Associate Professor, University of Maryland

[She/Her/Hers]

Julia Gutierrez, Treasurer

Certified Public Accountant,

Graduate Student

[She/Her/Hers]

Anne Carpenter

Partner, Baker Botts LLP

Sulaksh Shah

Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

[he/him]

Stephanie Hales

Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

[she/her]

Christa Heilman

sales strategy director, blue cross blue shield illinois

[she/her]

Chris Griffin, CPA

Partner, CohnReznick

Aryeh Kaufman

Special Counsel, Freshfields BruckhauS Deringer

Toni Jackson

Partner, Crowell & Moring

[she/her]

Kristin Sharp

CEO, Flex Association

[she/her]

Honorary Board

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton

United STATES COngress representative, District of Columbia

[She/Her/Hers]

Former DC Attorney General Karl Racine

Attorney General, District of COlumbia

[HE/Him/His]

Liam Montgomery

Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP

[he/him/his]

Ryan Guilds

Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

[HE/Him/His]

Jennifer Elmore

Survivor and Advocate

Professor Joan Meier 

Founding Director, National Family Violence Law Center at GW Law

Former Founding Director, DV LEAP

[she/her/hers]

BOARD DEMOGRAPHICS

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