Berkeley Law Foundation 15th Annual Auction Extravaganza

November 6, 2010 David Brower Center

All proceeds benefit the Phoenix fellowships

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Berkeley Law FoundationThe Berkeley Law Foundation (BLF) is an income shar-ing organization comprised of Boalt students and alumni who are dedicated to providing legal services to historically under-served communities. Started in 1976 by Boalt students, BLF was the first organization of its kind in the nation.

BLF provides direct funding to support public interest law and promote diversity in the legal profession. Every year, BLF gives out dozens of summer grants to current Boalt students for public interest legal intern-ships, and awards larger year-long grants to new attorneys to launch new legal service initiatives around the country. In 1997, BLF inaugurated the Phoenix Fellowship, for Boalt students of color with an outstanding commitment to public interest legal work.

15th Annual Auction Extravaganza Planning CommitteeAudrey Barron Cozette Tran-CaffeeMary Gilbert Yanin SenachaiAry Amerikaner

We would like to thank the following organizations, community members and individuals for going above and beyond to make the 15th Annual Auction Extravaganza a success:

Hannah Alsgaard David Oppenheimer Mark G. and Judy YudofSonja Diaz Diana Rashid Back to Easrth CateringErin Everett Neil Satterlund David Brower CenterJeff Halley Tirien Steinbach Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc.Tam Ma Susan Schechter And over 100 BLF student and alumniJohn Mills Kathleen Vanden-Heuvel volunteers

Board MembersAry Amerikaner Joey Hipolito Anya Binsacca Holly Baldwin Arthur Liou Chris DaleyAudrey Barron Madeline Neighly Amy DeVaudreuilLin A. Chin Yanin Senachai Marc-Tizoc GonzalezYohance Edwards Blake Thompson Michelle Leung Lisa Ells Cozette Tran-Caffee Dave Pogrel Mary Gilbert Kathleen Vanden-Heuvel Harini RaghupathiJon Givner Jessie Warner Gail Silverstein

Honorary Directors

Cover design by Neil Satterlund Layout by Alexandra Widmann

15th Annual Auction Extravaganza

Event SponsorsThe Berkeley Law Foundation board would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of this evening’s Auction Extravaganza.

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Catherine AlbistonTy AlperMichelle AndersonRobert BartlettCheryl BergBob BerringEric BiberStephen BundyRichard BuxbaumJesse ChoperErin ClarkeMichelle ColeRobert ColeMaria EchavesteLauren EdelmanDean EdleyAaron EdlinBill FernholzMary Louise FramptonMark GergenIan Haney Lopez

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Andrew FongWyatt GlennMarie Jonas

Dash KwiatkowskiLucas LoveTam Ma

Darren Modzelewski (Anthro. PhD)Casey SchutteAdam SterlingJames Stevens

The Phoenix FellowshipIn 1997, the Berkeley Law Foundation (BLF) inaugurated the Phoenix Fellowship, which it awards every year to admitted Boalt students who have demonstrated an outstanding committment to community service. BLF offers the Fellowship as part of its committment to deseg-

regate higher education in the aftermath of Proposition 209 and break down the barriers for lawyers of color to pursue public interest careers. In 1998, the National Association of Public Interest Law (now called Equal Justice Works) awarded BLF a prestigious national commendation for its creation and administration of this crucial and unique mechanism for student recruitment and ongoing support at the country’s leading public law school.The Phoenix Fellowship offers recipients a $9,000 scholarship for the first year of law school. It also funds Phoenix Fellows for summer public interest work serving underprivileged and underrepresented commu-nities. Phoenix Fellows have served with a range of social justice organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, California Rural Legal Assistance, New Orleans Legal Assistance, Legal Services of Northern California, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Aaron Bianco (Class of 2011)Aaron is a former foster youth from Richmond, California, who is devoted to the cause of supporting foster youth in the transition to adulthood. In 2001, Aaron successfully helped lobby Congress to supplement foster care spending with $47 million in scholarship grants. As part of his Phoenix Fellowship, he created a best practices manual to guide foster youth and interested practitio-ners, through the process of emancipation. Currently, Aaron is working with Bay Area organizations to preserve funding for California and foster youth services. Aaron graduated from Princeton University and plans to use his law degree to improve the national infrastructure for emancipating foster youth.

Tam Mai Ma (Class of 2011)Tam is a third-year law student at UC Berkeley Law School and is currently a judicial extern for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of California. Tam has worked on a wide range of poverty law issues as a law clerk with Legal Services of Northern California, East Bay Community Law Center and the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. Prior to attending law school, Tam was a California Senate Fellow and spent six years working as a policy consultant to State Senator Sheila Kuehl, where she advised the Senator on legislation before the Senate Judi-ciary Committee and issues relating to housing and tenants' rights, gender-based crimes, social services and immigrants’ rights.

Yanin Senachai (Class of 2012)Yanin was born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles. She worked for six years at the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence, fostering national collaborations and ethnic specific organizing to develop and promote culturally relevant advocacy for Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander victims of domestic violence. As a summer intern at Bay Area Legal Aid, Yanin assisted undocumented women in applying for U-Visas and advocated for low-income, homeless and disabled clients in appealing their denials of social security and disability benefits. She is currently an intern at the East Bay Community Law Center, assisting individuals being sued over consumer debt. Along with Makda Goitom (Class of 2012), Yanin is co-chair of the Boalt Chapter of the National

Tam currently serves on the board of the Women’s Foundation of California. She is a long-time volunteer with My Sister's House, a Sacramento-based shelter for Asian and Pacific Islander survivors of domestic violence and has served as its board chair. Tam's volunteer work with the Women's Policy Institute of the Women’s Foundation of California and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum has helped to develop the capacity of progressive women leaders to influence California public policy. Tam received her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. As an Americorps volunteer, Tam ran a literacy program at a juvenile probation camp. A native of Los Angeles, Tam has lived in Northern California all of her adult life. She plans to combine her legal training and her policy experience to continue working for social justice.

Amaha Imanuel Kassa (Class of 2012)Tam is a third-year law student at UC Berkeley Law School and is currently a judicial extern for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, United States Magis-trate Judge for the Eastern District of California. Tam has worked on a wide range of poverty law issues as a law clerk with Legal Services of Northern California, East Bay Community Law Center and the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. Prior to attending law school, Tam was a California Senate Fellow and spent six years working as a policy consultant to State Senator Sheila Kuehl, where she advised the Senator on legislation before the Senate Judiciary Committee and issues relating to housing and tenants' rights, gender-based crimes, social services and immigrants’ rights.

Lawyers Guild. Through her future career in law, Yanin aims to advance the availability and effectiveness of legal services for survivors and ultimately improve victims’ access to personal safety, financial security, and well-being.

Andrew FongWyatt GlennMarie Jonas

Dash KwiatkowskiLucas LoveTam Ma

Darren Modzelewski (Anthro. PhD)Casey SchutteAdam SterlingJames Stevens

Sonja Diaz (Class of 2013)Sonja Diaz has extensive work experience in the public sector, facilitating advo-cacy campaigns, directing qualitative and quantitative research projects, and organizing multi-cultural programming. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Sonja was a research assistant, teaching assistant, and student director for outreach and retention programs. After her under-graduate studies, Sonja advocated on behalf of communities of color in the most recent California health expansion debate as a Health Fellow at Latino Issues Forum and architected the first interactive online advocacy portal specifically designed to increase the civic participation of Latina registered voters in California as an associate at Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE). As a graduate student, Sonja directed a longitudinal participatory

research study on neighborhood public school choice reforms within LAUSD as a researcher for UCLA’s Center X, documented the propensity of telemedicine to benefit urban communities as a Summer Associ-ate at the Greenlining Institute, and advocated against the budget cuts to public higher education state-wide. Sonja is a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) fellow, a graduate of the Applied Research Center’s Racial Justice Leadership Institute, and holds a Masters of Public Policy from UCLA's School of Public Affairs. Born and raised in urban Los Angeles, Sonja hopes to refine the skills necessary to advance civil rights laws and equitable public policies for marginalized communities on federal and municipal levels.

Diana Rashid (Class of 2013)Diana was born in Michoacan, Mexico. Her family immigrated to the US when she was five. She was raised in Chicago where became a leader in the immi-grant rights movement during high school, when she began organizing youth to fight for financial aid and access to higher education for undocumented students. As a high school student, Diana was instrumental in passing Illinois legislation granting in-state tuition to undocumented students. As an under-graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she founded a student organization that worked to advance the DREAM Act and organized in the local community for comprehensive immigration reform. After college,

Diana organized in Seattle where she won community benefits agreements at local hospitals and advanced language access in local hospitals. Most recently Diana was an organizer with the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy in Oakland, where she developed a coalition of labor unions and community organi-zations to advocate for immigration reform that protected immigrant workers’ rights to organize. After law school, Diana plans to continue fighting to change federal immigration laws to protect immigrant workers' rights and provide undocumented students access to higher education.

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Tam Mai Ma (Class of 2011)Tam is a third-year law student at UC Berkeley Law School and is currently a judicial extern for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of California. Tam has worked on a wide range of poverty law issues as a law clerk with Legal Services of Northern California, East Bay Community Law Center and the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. Prior to attending law school, Tam was a California Senate Fellow and spent six years working as a policy consultant to State Senator Sheila Kuehl, where she advised the Senator on legislation before the Senate Judi-ciary Committee and issues relating to housing and tenants' rights, gender-based crimes, social services and immigrants’ rights.

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