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Staff Directory & Memberships

To see staff biographies and contact information click on the names below.

Click here for a list of YAP's Professional Affiliations and Memberships.

 

Julie Bowden, Staff Attorney - Roxbury office

Grace Byrd, EdLaw Project, AmeriCorps VISTA
Andrea Campbell, EdLaw Project Attorney - Roxbury office
Eva Chan, Operations Manager
Matt Dashkoff, Community Notebooks Coordinator, AmeriCorps VISTA
Josh Dohan, YAD Director
Daniel Donahue, Community Outreach Liaison - Worcester office
Priscilla Duffy, Director of Communications
Lisa Ferigno, Administrative Assistant
Theresa Flaherty, Administrative Assistant
Susan Flood, Staff Psychologist - Roxbury office

Lisa Gigliotti, Social Services Advocate - Worcester office
Duci Goncalves, Staff Attorney - Roxbury office
Penny Haney, Staff Psychologist - Roxbury office
Lynsey Heffernan, Staff Attorney - Worcester office
Ziyad Hopkins, Staff Attorney - Roxbury office

Mona Igram, Resource Attorney - Roxbury office

Charles Israel, Forensic Case Manager - Roxbury office

Ami Jackson, Criminal Defense Investigator - Worcester office
Bri Lacy, Staff Attorney - Worcester office
Elizabeth J. Pimentel, Community Outreach Coordinator, Massachusetts Promise Fellowship, Mass. Promise Fellow - Roxbury office
Scott Rankin, Staff Attorney - Roxbury office

Kathryn Ratey, Forensic Case Manager - Roxbury office
Cecely Reardon, Attorney In Charge - Roxbury office
Jeffrey T. Richards, Attorney In Charge - Worcester office
Sarah Sallen, JDN Program Associate, AmeriCorps VISTA

Meredith Santana, Development, AmeriCorps VISTA

Marlies Spanjaard, EdLaw Project Coordinator & Attorney
Bryna Williams, EdLaw Attorney
Wendy Wolf, Training Director

 


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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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