OFFICERS
Angelina Austin - President
Angelina Austin is an associate attorney at Kazan, McClain, Satterley and Greenwood PLC in Oakland, CA. Angelina is a bay area native who resides in Oakland. She graduated with a B.A. from Mills College and a J.D. from Golden Gate University, School of Law. Angelina is a passionate advocate for social justice, equity and diversity. She promotes these goals by volunteering her time at various bay area law associations organizing panel discussions, law student mock trials, and scholarship opportunities.
Andria Eguia - Vice President
Andria Eguia, a Deputy District Attorney with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, is known for her strong commitment to justice and community empowerment. In addition to her legal career, she is deeply passionate about mentoring the next generation of leaders. Andria serves as the Vice President of WLAC, where she fosters a supportive and inclusive environment for women in the legal profession. She also actively collaborates with Queen’s Bench, East Bay La Raza Lawyers Association, Earl Warren Inn of Court, and Black Women Lawyers Association of Northern California. Outside of her professional work, she is a vibrant part of her Oakland community, leading a community run group every Tuesday evening; and serving as a running mentor and fundraiser for the kids of Running for a Better Oakland.
Mayeli Soto - Secretary
Mayeli Soto (she/her/Ella) is a first-generation Honduran-American and is currently a third-year at UC Law San Francisco. Before law school she attended UC Berkeley and worked as a legal assistant for four years at Disability Rights California, where she supported attorneys in complex impact civil litigation cases. As a law student, Mayeli has ventured in different fields of civil law: she was a law clerk for Communities for a Better Environment, Vice President of the UC Environmental Law Association, spent one year as staff editor for the UC Environmental Law Journal, a law clerk for Tobener Ravenscroft LLP and was a student attorney in the UC Law Individual Representation Clinic where she represented multiple clients in wage and hour cases. Her outstanding work as a student attorney earned her the Individual Representation Clinic Outstanding Performance Award of Spring 2024. She is excited to launch her legal career as an attorney in the Bay area and to use her legal knowledge and experience to repower communities.
Lee Maranto - Treasurer
Lee Maranto is the principal attorney at Maranto Law, PC in Oakland, CA. He brings his diverse career background in student affairs and diversity and inclusion to his practice areas of: criminal defense, estate planning and trust matters, domestic violence and elder abuse restraining orders and student conduct proceedings in higher education. Lee is originally from Los Angeles and received his B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and his J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law. When not advocating for his clients, Lee enjoys hanging out with his two children, playing poker and enjoying all the awesome things the Bay Area has to offer. Lee is a proud Oakland resident.
Camille Legendre - Communications
Camille Legendre is an associate attorney at Wilson Elser in San Francisco. Camille earned her B.A in Global China Studies from NYU Shanghai, with semesters abroad in Ghana and Spain, before moving to Dublin, Ireland to work for Facebook. In 2021, Camille returned to her native Bay Area to attend Golden Gate University (GGU) School of Law, where she served as President of the Intellectual Property and Privacy Law Association and earned specialization certificates in Business Law and Intellectual Property Law. Now practicing litigation defense and toxic tort law, Camille maintains close ties to her French heritage by assisting European businesses expanding to the United States and by actively participating in French-American organizations in the Bay Area. Drawing on her own experiences of living abroad and navigating her career through the support of mentors, Camille is passionate about continuing the cycle of mentorship and guidance, and is dedicated to empowering others to achieve their own goals and aspirations.
DIRECTORS
Brittany Smith
Em Feder Cooper
Jackie Khong is the managing attorney at HartGinney LLP in Oakland, CA. She is a first-generation Vietnamese-Chinese American who graduated from college in her family. Jackie’s dedication to helping minorities and survivors of domestic violence led her to pursue a career in family law where she helps her clients navigate the difficulties that come with a divorce, restraining order, and child custody. Outside of the courtroom, Jackie enjoys baking and finding the best soup dumplings in the Bay Area.
Jacqueline Khong
Johnsenia Brooks
Originally from the Bronx, NY, Johnsenia (she/her) is a first-generation Honduran American and a second-year student at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree in Government and Psychology with a minor in French from Georgetown University in 2020. In college, Johnsenia was an educator at the Arlington County (VA) jail, where she developed a novel literature curriculum, served as an intake specialist at the local Public Defenders Service, and advocated for exoneration in a wrongful conviction case as a part of her class, “Making an Exoneree.” She produced an award-winning documentary related to this exoneree work. Immediately after college, she worked as a paralegal for the Innocence Project. In 2021, she co-founded an events curation brand and worked alongside artists and DJs to curate social events centered around celebrating the Black diaspora. Johnsenia aims to be the go-to attorney for entertainers in the music industry. Johnsenia enjoys lifting weights or taking classes at her local boxing studio.
Julia Martinez is an associate attorney at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP in Oakland. A proud Double Aggie, she earned her B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Davis, and her J.D. from UC Davis School of Law, King Hall. While at King Hall, Julia served as a Co-Chair and Founding Member of Justice Affected & Impacted Law Students, Community Outreach Co-Chair of the Latinx Law Students Association, and Managing Productions Editor of the Social Justice Law Review.
Julia’s practice focuses on transactional law, including business and corporate matters, intellectual property, and music and entertainment. As a first-generation attorney, she is passionate about mentorship and dedicated to fostering community among women and other underrepresented groups in the legal profession.
Julia Martinez
Khue Tran (she/her) is a 2L at Berkeley Law dedicated to advancing equity for marginalized communities. Raised in East New Orleans, she witnessed firsthand the discriminatory policies that devastated her neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina. A Yale graduate in Political Science and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Khue reported as a community journalist in Flint and organized with Zealous to challenge carceral injustice. At Berkeley Law, she represents clients in eviction defense through the Homelessness Advocacy Clinic at EBCLC and builds expertise in impact litigation, federal funding, and disability rights to uplift unhoused people and strengthen community reintegration.
Khue Mai Tran
Nicole Fuller
Parvaneh Wardan
Parvaneh Wardan is a litigation paralegal with experience in personal injury matters, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. She worked at Kazan McClain Satterley & Greenwood in Oakland, California, where she supported attorneys handling complex cases involving injury and death as a result of exposure to asbestos. Parvaneh earned her B.A. in Political Science from San José State University, where she served as President of the Political Science Honor Society and interned for Hon. Robert J. Foley of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. She also trained as a police officer and graduated from the Napa Valley Police Academy. Parvaneh currently serves on the WLAC Scholarship and Events Committees.
JUDICIAL LIAISONS
The Honorable Tamiza Hockenhull Stone
Tamiza Hockenhull Stone was elected to the Alameda County Superior Court bench in June of 2022. Prior to her current service as a Judge, she served the people of Alameda County as a Superior Court Commissioner for almost seven years. Judge Hockenhull Stone has also served as an Administrative Law Judge. Prior to her judicial career, she served as an Adjunct Professor at University of California College of Law (San Francisco), a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco and as a Director of a Court Appointed program while managing her own law firm. Judge Hockenhull Stone has been a board member of the Charles Houston Bar Association and Earl Warren Inns of Court (Past President). She is passionate about mentoring young lawyers and educating young people about their civic duty, the legal profession and the judiciary. Thus, in recent years, Judge Hockenhull Stone has managed the court’s annual Law Day program and festivities.