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Julie Bowden, Esq., Staff Attorney - Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8122 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
jbowden@publiccounsel.net
Julie joined YAP in September 2007 as a staff attorney after two
years as a trial attorney in the Worcester Trial Unit of CPCS. She
earned her B.A. in Latin American and American Studies from Barnard
College in 1996 and her J.D. from Northeastern School of Law in 2004.
After graduating, she worked as a clerk for the Justices of the Superior
Court. Prior to attending law school, Julie worked for several years as
a paralegal and translator, helping immigrants petition for legal status
in the United States.
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Grace Byrd, EdLaw Project, AmeriCorps
VISTA
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8144 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
byrd.edlaw@gmail.com
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Andrea Campbell, EdLaw Project Attorney - Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x153 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
acampbell@publiccounsel.net
Andrea J. Campbell joined the EdLaw Project in December, 2009.
As a staff attorney, she represents students in school disciplinary
hearings, special education team meetings, and administrative hearings
before the Bureau of Special Education Appeals. She graduated from UCLA
School of Law in 2009. A native of Boston, Andrea voluntarily deferred
from Proskauer LLP in New York to do work with youth in the Boston area.
She earned her B.A. in Sociology with a Certificate in Judaic Studies from
Princeton University in 2004.
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Eva Chan, Operations Manager
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8130 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
echan@publiccounsel.net
Eva joined YAP in April 2008 as the operations maganger. She earned
her B.A. in International Business from Northeastern University in 2004.
Also, she speaks, reads and writes fluent Chinese. Prior to working at
YAP, Eva was a restaurant manager on Nantucket Island for over two
years.
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Matt Dashkoff, Community Notebooks
Coordinator, AmeriCorps VISTA
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8129 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email: mdashkoffyap@gmail.com
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Joshua M. Dohan, Esq., Youth Advocacy
Department Director
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8117 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
jdohan@publiccounsel.net
Joshua Dohan became a public defender in 1988 and joined the Youth
Advocacy Project at its inception, as its first staff attorney in 1992
and assumed the role of Director in 1999. Josh is a returned Peace Corps
volunteer, Ghana (1982-84). He is a graduate of Harvard College (1980)
and Northeastern University School of Law (1988). He was also the 1998
recipient of the Access to Justice Award from the Massachusetts Bar
Association. Josh is on the Board of Directors of Citizens for Juvenile
Justice and is President of the Board for the Youth Advocacy Foundation.
He is a founding Member of the Equal Justice Partnership, a member of
the LeadBoston class of 2001, a member of the Institutional Review Board
of both Children's Hospital and Tufts University, and a member of the
Community Advisory Board of the Institute on Race and Justice. In 2001,
the Youth Advocacy Project became the first Juvenile Defender
organization to win the Clara Shortridge Foltz award for outstanding
achievement from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.
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Daniel Donahue, Community Outreach
Liaison - Worcester office
Mailing Address: 340 Main Street, Suite 720, Worcester, MA 01608
Telephone: (508) 368-1870 x1866 Fax: (508) 890-3573
Email: daniel.m.donahue@gmail.com
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Priscilla Duffy, Esq., Director of
Communications
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8125 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
pduffy@publiccounsel.net
Priscilla joined YAP in 2003 as Program Manager. In 2008, Priscilla
was recognized by Lawyers Weekly as one of its inaugural "Women of
Justice." Previously, she was a trial attorney for seven years in the
Brockton Office of the Committee for Public Counsel Services. While
there, she specialized in Youthful Offender cases. In addition,
Priscilla has marketing and development experience at both a nonprofit
company and a major corporation. Priscilla graduated from Brown
University in 1983 and received her J.D., with honors, from Boston
College Law School in 1992.
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Lisa Ferigno, Administrative Assistant
Mailing Address: 340 Main Street, Suite 720, Worcester, MA 01608
Telephone: (508) 368-1870 x1878 Fax: (508) 890-3573
Email: lferigno@publiccounsel.net
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Theresa Flaherty, Administrative
Assistant
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8112 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
tflaherty@publiccounsel.net
Theresa joined YAP in 2007. Prior to working at YAP, Theresa worked for
the Middlesex District Attorneys Office as a support to the Framingham
and Cambridge District Court teams. There she provided administrative
and paralegal support to the ADAs and Regional and Juvenile Court
Supervisors. She graduated with a B.A. from Boston University majoring
in Sociology.
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Susan Flood, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist -
Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8145 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
sflood@publiccounsel.net
Susan started at YAP in June 2005. She is a licensed clinical and
forensic psychologist, who earned her Masters degree in Community Social
Psychology from the University of Lowell in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Clinical
Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1997.
Susan did a pre-doctoral internship at Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center in New York City and a post-doctoral fellowship with the Children
and the Law Program in the Dept. of Psychiatry of Mass. General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School where she stayed on as an advanced fellow and
then joined the staff and was a Clinical Associate with Harvard Medical
School from 1999-2005. Susan has worked in the Suffolk, Norfolk and
Middlesex County Juvenile Court Clinics and has worked on a Department
of Mental Health child inpatient hospital unit and in residential
treatment.
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Lisa Gigliotti, Social Services Advocate - Worcester office
Mailing Address: 340 Main Street, Suite 720, Worcester, MA 01608
Telephone: (508) 368-1870 Fax: (508) 890-3573
Email: lgigliotti@publiccounsel.net
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Duci Goncalves, Esq., Staff Attorney -
Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8124 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
dgoncalves@publiccounsel.net
Duci joined YAP in September 2005. She grew up in Roxbury and graduated
from Boston University with a B.S. in Rehabilitation and Human Services
in 2002. During college, Duci spent a year as an intern with the EdLaw
Project. She received her J.D from Northeastern University School of Law
in 2005. While at Northeastern, she completed a three month internship
with YAP and also competed in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court
Competition, coming in first place at both the regional competition as
well as the national competition, which was held in Colorado.
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Penny Haney, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist -
Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8142 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
phaney@publiccounsel.net
Penny is a clinical and forensic psychologist who joined
YAP in May 2005. She has worked in the juvenile courts
since 1998, and has both Designated Forensic Professional (DFP) and
Certified Juvenile Court Clinician II (CJCC II) certifications in
Massachusetts. In addition to her work at
YAP, Penny is also a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at
Boston College,
in the Counseling Psychology program at the Lynch School of Education.
Penny's specialty areas of practice include working with children,
adolescents, and families who are court involved, and/or who have
experienced traumatic events or other adverse life circumstances.
Penny earned her Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago, and completed her
internship at Cook
County Hospital
in Chicago and postdoctoral fellowship at
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Children and the Law Program.
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Lynsey Heffernan, Staff Attorney - Worcester office
Mailing Address: 340 Main Street, Suite 720, Worcester, MA 01608
Telephone: (508) 368-1870 x1874 Fax: (508) 890-3573
Email: lheffernan@publiccounsel.net
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Ziyad Hopkins, Esq., Staff Attorney -
Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8123 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
zhopkins@publiccounsel.net
Ziyad has been with CPCS since graduating from Northeastern
University School of Law in 1998. Before joining YAP
in 2003 he was a trial attorney in the Boston Trial Unit, where he
represented adults accused of committing felonies. Ziyad grew up in
Cairo, Egypt
and is an alumnus of Oberlin
College (1992). During college he spent six
months in occupied Palestine
working with the Mandela Institute, a prisoner's rights group advocating
for Palestinians held in Israeli detention. He also lived in India for
two years on a post-graduate fellowship, and lived there for much of
2006-2007 as well.
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Mona Igram, Resource Attorney- Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (603) 401-7146
Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
monaigram@yahoo.com
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Charles Israel, Forensic Case Manager -
Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8138 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
cisrael@publiccounsel.net
A native of Boston, Charles joined YAP as a Forensic Case Manager in
2008. He received his B.A. in Sociology/Criminal Justice from Curry
College and went on to work for the Department of Youth Services for six
years in a variety of roles. Before coming to YAP, Charles was employed
as the Program Director for North Charles where he worked with adult
males with mental health disorders. Charles is currently enrolled in
UMass Boston's Forensic Services Certificate program.
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Ami Jackson, Criminal Justice Investigator - Worcester office
Mailing Address: 340 Main Street, Suite 720, Worcester, MA 01608
Telephone: (508) 368-1870 x1876 Fax: (508) 890-3573
Email: ajackson@publiccounsel.net
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Bri Lacy, Staff Attorney - Worcester office
Mailing Address: 340 Main Street, Suite 720, Worcester, MA 01608
Telephone: (508) 368-1865 x1878 Fax: (508) 890-3573
Email: blacy@publiccounsel.net
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Elizabeth J. Pimentel, Community
Outreach Coordinator, Massachusetts Promise Fellowship - Roxbury
office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8148 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
eliatyap@gmail.com
Elizabeth joined the Youth Advocacy Project in August
2008 as the Community Outreach Coordinator after a year as the
AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at the Children's Law Center of
Massachusetts. She earned her B.A. in Government combined with African
Studies and Spanish from St. Lawrence University in 2007. During her
time at St. Lawrence she spent a semester abroad in Spain and another in
Kenya where she competed an internship with UN-HABITAT. Elizabeth is
excited to be serving for a second year towards positive youth and
community development.
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Scott Rankin, Esq., Staff Attorney -
Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8114 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
srankin@publiccounsel.net
Scott joined YAP as a staff attorney in April 2007. He graduated from
New York University School of Law in 2000 where he participated in a
year long Juvenile Rights Clinic. Before coming to YAP, Scott was a
staff attorney with the New Hampshire Public Defender handling adult and
juvenile cases and providing program wide juvenile litigation support.
Before law school, Scott worked as a paralegal with the Legal Aid
Society in Brooklyn focusing on housing and public benefits matters. He
received a B.A. in English from Swarthmore College in 1994.
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Kathryn Ratey, Forensic Case Manager -
Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8126 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
kratey@publiccounsel.net
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Cecely Reardon, Esq., Attorney In
Charge - Roxbury office
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8131 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
creardon@publiccounsel.net
Cecely Reardon is the Supervising
Attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services Youth Advocacy
Project. Cecely first joined the Brockton Superior Court Office of the
Committee in1997, after receiving her Juris Doctor and a Masters in
Social Work from Boston College. Cecely then joined the Youth Advocacy
Project in the fall of 2000, and currently represents juveniles in
delinquency and youthful offender matters in the Boston Juvenile
Courts. Cecely also serves as the Vice Chair of Massachusetts Juvenile
Justice Advisory Committee (JJAC) and is the Massachusetts delegate to
the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice. Cecely was the 2007
recipient of the Boston Bar Associations Brooks Award for outstanding
public service and is a frequent lecturer and participant in a variety
of training programs statewide.
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Jeffrey T. Richards, Esq., YAD Director - Worcester office
Mailing Address: 340 Main Street, Suite 720, Worcester, MA 01608
Telephone: (508) 368-1870 x1873 Fax: (508) 890-3573
Email:
jrichards@publiccounsel.net
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Sarah Sallen, JDN Program Associate,
Americorps VISTA
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8136 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email: ssallenyap@gmail.com
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Meredith Santana, Development, AmeriCorps
VISTA
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8129 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email: msantanayap@gmail.com
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Marlies Spanjaard, Esq., EdLaw Project
Coordinator
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8150 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
mspanjaard@publiccounsel.net
Marlies Spanjaard joined the EdLaw Project in August, 2001 and became
the Project Coordinator in the summer of 2008. The EdLaw Project is an
initiative of the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts and the Youth
Advocacy Project with a mission of advocating for the education services
that Boston's highest risk children need to succeed. Ms. Spanjaard
represents students in school disciplinary hearings, special education
team meetings, and administrative hearings before the Bureau of Special
Education appeals. As Project Coordinator, she is also responsible for
supervising staff attorneys and interns and making policy
decisions. Ms. Spanjaard has trained a wide variety of audiences
including parents, youth workers, students and lawyers throughout the
state on education related issues. In 2007, Ms. Spanjaard began
teaching at Wheelock College as an adjunct instructor in the college's
Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Concentration. She earned her J.D.
and her M.S.W. at Washington University Law School and George Warren
Brown School of Social Work in St. Louis, MO.
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Bryna G. Williams, Esq., EdLaw Attorney
Mailing Address: 10 Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8152 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email:
bwilliams@publiccounsel.net
Bryna joined the EdLaw Project in August, 2006. As a staff attorney, she
represents students in the areas of school discipline, special education
rights and access to school. Additionally, she regularly attends
community meetings and forums focused on pubic education and leads
trainings about education rights to community groups, child advocates
and students throughout the region. During law
school, she gained valuable experience in client advocacy through
internships with the Public Guardian of Cook County in Chicago and the
Citizen Advocacy Center in Elmhurst, Illinois, and as a student
clinician at the Loyola Civitas ChildLaw Clinic. Additionally, she
served as the managing editor of the Children's Legal Rights Journal,
as the president of her law school's Public Interest Law Society and as
a volunteer teaching students about their legal rights in the Chicago
Public Schools and at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center. She
earned her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998 and her
J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2005.
Wendy Wolf, Esq., Training Director
Mailing Address: Ten Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury, MA 02119
Telephone: (617) 989-8100 x8127 Fax: (617) 541-0904
Email: wwolf@publiccounsel.net
Wendy Wolf, Esq. has been a trial attorney with
the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) since 1985. She began
her practice representing adults accused of felonies and was also a
Supervising Attorney in the
Cambridge
office of CPCS. In 1996 Wendy joined the Youth Advocacy Project (YAP) of
CPCS as the Supervising Attorney. In 2002 Wendy started the Juvenile
Defense Network, an initiative of YAP
and CPCS which provides training and support to attorneys in delinquency
and youthful offender cases. She is currently the co-chair of the
Juvenile and Child Welfare Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association,
a board member of the Massachusetts Juvenile Bar Association and the
New England Juvenile
Defender Center,
and on the Juvenile Justice Center Advisory Board of Barry University
Law School. She is the 2007 recipient of the Massachusetts Bar
Association Defender Award. Ms. Wolf earned her B.S in Social Work from
the University of
Vermont
and her J.D. from Suffolk
University
Law
School.
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center
American Psychological
Association
American Psychology-Law
Society
Boston Bar
Association
Citizens for Juvenile
Justice
Massachusetts
Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
Massachusetts Bar
Association
Massachusetts Citizens Against the
Death Penalty
National Association of
Criminal Defense Attorneys
National Juvenile
Defender Center
National Lawyers Guild,
Massachusetts Chapter
National Youth Justice
Alliance
New England Juvenile
Defender Center
National Legal Aid and Defender
Association
The Sentencing Project
Vera Institute of Justice
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