Professional Associations and Memberships

Illinois State Bar Association

• Board of Governors (2024-Present)
• Assembly (2024-Present)
• Scope and Correlation Committee (2026-Present)
• Board Liaison to Cannabis Law Section (2026-Present)
• Board Liaison to Delivery of Legal Services Committee (2026-Present)
• Board Liaison to Women and the Law Committee (2026-Present)
• Board Liaison to Privacy and Information Security Section (2025 - Present)
• Board Liaison to Government Lawyers Committee (2025-26)
• Board Liaison to Illinois Bar Journal Editorial Board (2025-26)
• Board Liaison to Family Law Section (2024-25)
• Board Liaison to Law-Related Education for the Public Committee (2024-25)
• Board Liaison to Judicial Advisory Polls Committee (2024-25)
• Member of Delivery of Legal Services Committee (2022-25)
• Member of Women and the Law Committee (2021-24)

Other Bar Association Involvement

• Public Interest Law Initiative
  • Board Member (2023-Present)
• Association of Women Attorneys of Lake County, Member (2014-Present)
  • Immediate Past President (2024-25), President (2022-24), Vice President (2020-22)
• Lake County Bar Association, Member (2014-Present)
  • Docket Editorial Board (2022-Present)
  • Community Outreach and Diversity Committee (2020-Present)
• Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, Member (Present)
• Chicago Bar Association, Member (Present)
• Advocates Society, Member (Present)
• American Bar Association
  • Young Lawyers Division Co-Chair of Children and the Law Committee / Liaison to Center for Children and the Law (2011-12)

Honors and Awards

• Illinois Bar Foundation Silver Champion (Present)
• American Bar Fellow (Present)
• ISBA Joseph R. Bartylak Memorial Legal Services Award (2024)
• Tony Patino Fellowship
  • Leadership Accelerator Facilitator (Present), Engagement Committee (Present), Fellow (2008-Present), Fellow-Elect (2005-08)
• Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management (Chicago, IL)
  • Allstate Foundation Executive Leadership Program, 2021
• Equal Justice Works Fellow, funded by Greenberg Traurig, LLP (2008-10)
• Equal Justice Works, National Advisory Committee (2006-08)
• Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship (2007)
• State Bar Foundation of California, Law School Scholarship (2006)
• Equal Justice America Fellowship (2006)
• UC Hastings College of the Law, Stephen Cone Fellowship (2006)
• University of Michigan, Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Fellow (2006)

Publications and Presentations

• Illinois Courts Uphold Survivor Rights and Remedies Related to Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images, ISBA Privacy and Information Security Law Newsletter (February 2026) & Lake County Bar Association “The Docket.”
• Free the Girls Campaign, Women and the Law Newsletter (May 2022)
• 10 Simple Ways to Celebrate Women This Month, Women and the Law Newsletter (March 2021)
• MIE National Fundraising Conference for Legal Aid Professionals (Virtual and In-Person)
  • Presenter, “How Strategic Database Management Can Strengthen Your Fundraising” (2025)
  • Presenter, “Managing Fundraising Relationships Across Multiple Offices” (2023)
  • Presenter, “Creating and Effectively Using a Development Plan” (2021)
  • MIE Journal, “Yes, Virginia, You Should Have a Development Plan” (Fall 2021)
  • Panel Moderator, “Reaching Every Corner of the Legal Community” (2021)
  • Presenter, “Pivoting to Virtual Fundraising Events” (2020)
• Equal Justice Works Leadership Development Training (Virtual national conference)
  • Presenter, “Creating and Effectively Using a Development Plan” (2021)
  • Presenter, “Don’t Leave Money on the Table: Diversifying Funding and Building a Comprehensive Fundraising Plan” (2020)
• ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference (Virtual)
  • Presenter, “How to Make #GivingTuesday Bigger Than Social Media” (2021)
• Lake County Bar Association, Family Law Committee (Waukegan, IL)
  • “Limited Scope Representation” CLE (2018)
• ISBA Pro Bono Palooza (Joliet, IL)
  • Presenter “Limited Scope Representation”
• NLADA Annual Conference (Houston, TX)
  • “Don’t Leave Money on the Table: Diversifying Funding and Building a Comprehensive Fundraising Plan” (2018)
• FTC, Sharing a Common Ground Conference (St. Louis, MO)
  • Panelist with Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and other consumer advocates sharing expertise on mortgage and foreclosure issues (2014)
• ABA National Conference on Children and the Law (Washington, D.C.)
  • Presenter for three workshops about serving homeless and runaway youth and addressing credit issues facing youth in foster care
• “Adopting a New System”, Northwestern University Journal of Race and Gender Criticism (2003)

Other Leadership Experience

• Highland Park Community Early Learning Center, Board Member (2017-2025)
• Hastings Law Journal, Editor-in-Chief (2007-08)
• UC Hastings College of the Law, Pro Bono Student Advisory Committee (2007-08)
• Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation, Co-Chair (2006-07)

Bar Admissions

• Illinois (2012)
• California (2008)

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco, CA)
  • Juris Doctor, 2008
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  • Bachelor of Arts, History of the Americas and Legal Studies, 2004