Job Type: Program Services

Isabel Flores GanleySkadden Fellow Isabel graduated from UCLA School of Law where she specialized in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Prior to law school Isabel worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center where she worked on the economic justice legal team challenging fines and fees in the criminal legal system. Isabel’s Skadden project focuses on… Continue reading Isabel Flores Ganley

Athena AranaEqual Justice Works Fellow, Sponsored by Fenwick & West LLP Athena Arana (she/ella) is a 2024 Equal Justice Works Fellow with the National Origin and Immigrants’ Rights program. Athena has extensive experience providing legal assistance and other advocacy services to underserved immigrant communities, including through her prior work at Legal Aid at Work, Justice… Continue reading Athena Arana

Cynthia SalazarTemporary Central Valley Workers’ Advocate Cynthia (she/her/ella) is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where she received her Bachelor’s in Gender and Women’s Studies. She spent the majority of time while in school working in programs where she helped marginalized students through the entire application process, with a majority of the cohort of students… Continue reading Cynthia Salazar

Erica ZermenoTemporary Intake Specialist Erica Zermeno (she/her/ella) is a temporary intake specialist at Legal Aid at Work. Erica has dedicated her career to advocating for social and economic justice for low-wage workers. She studied law and politics with an emphasis on Latin American politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, then transferred to the… Continue reading Erica Zermeno

King Szeto Senior Language Access Coordinator King (he/him) provides language assistance and legal information to low-income workers with limited English capacity. He helped initiate and manages our Chinese-language phone line, and he conducts outreach on employment law weekly through Chinese-language radio and newspapers. Before joining Legal Aid at Work in 2000, King worked as a… Continue reading King Szeto

Valerie Sprague Senior Paralegal Valerie (she/her) comes to us from the Paralegal Program at San Francisco State University where she received her ABA –approved Paralegal Certificate, with honors. She provides legal support across all programs in the organization including researching civil procedure and local rules, performing analysis on discovery, calendaring deadlines, and preparing legal documents.… Continue reading Valerie Sprague

Tishon Smith-Bennett Senior Paralegal/Legal Project Coordinator Tishon enjoys helping people and strongly believes in the power of the law to address issues of social justice. Supporting lawyers across Legal Aid at Work’s programs, she looks up rules and prepares pleadings, subpoenas, deposition notices, spreadsheets, client correspondence, and other documents. Tishon has worked as a legal… Continue reading Tishon Smith-Bennett

Sandra Johnson Fair Chance Organizer Sandra Johnson (she/her/hers) grew up in the community that Legal Aid at Work serves. She has experienced incarceration and workplace discrimination and has overcome many barriers because of our systemically racist society. These experiences fuel Sandra’s commitment to advocating for equality for people of color that suffer from the systemic… Continue reading Sandra Johnson