Maya Grosz, J.D. is the Director of Training at New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). Maya has spent more than 20 years as a legal educator, facilitator, and legal services lawyer. As Director of Training at NYLAG, Maya oversees and leads NYLAG staff-wide training. Before joining NYLAG she served as a consultant facilitating conversations about antiracism, equity, and inclusion. From 2009-2019 she was a law professor and Director of the Legal Practice Curriculum at Seton Hall Law School, where she supervised the experiential practical skills courses and programs, and she taught in the first year Introduction to Lawyering course. From 2005-2009 she taught Lawyering at New York University Law School. Before she entered teaching, Maya was an attorney at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, where she represented clients in a range of civil cases that were collateral to her clients' arrests or convictions. These included family defense proceedings, eviction matters, and police misconduct cases.

Sirine Shebaya is the Executive Director of the National Immigration Project. She is an immigrant rights litigator and advocate who focuses on the intersection of immigration, civil rights, racial justice, and criminal justice. Under her leadership, the National Immigration Project combines movement-centered litigation, policy advocacy, narrative change, and training and education strategies to defend and advance the rights of immigrant communities of color. Sirine has led successful campaigns to disentangle local law enforcement from immigration enforcement, to expand protective policies at the federal level, and to challenge state and local laws that harm immigrants.

Chinh Le joined the resident faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law in 2025 after visiting for several years as a professor of practice and distinguished fellow with the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy. He teaches courses on systemic impact litigation and advocacy, public interest practice, and civil rights. From 2011 to 2021, he served as legal director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Legal Aid, Le was director of the division on civil rights in the office of the New Jersey Attorney General. Between 2001 and 2006, he served as assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., in New York. Le spent the 2008-09 academic year as a practitioner-in-residence at Seton Hall Law School and an adjunct associate research scholar at Columbia Law School, where he was affiliated with the Center for Institutional and Social Change. He served as a law clerk to Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and has also previously worked as a litigation associate at Jenner & Block. Le is a member of the boards of directors of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council and the Legal Aid Justice Center, and of the advisory council of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law at Fordham Law. He served on the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission between 2020 and 2023, as co-chair of the D.C. Consortium of Legal Services Providers between 2013 and 2016, and as co-chair of the Access to Justice Task Force of the ABA Section of Litigation between 2011 and 2013.

Mr. Downer brings to the Committee 15 years of experience litigating civil rights cases, primarily focusing on criminal legal system reform and economic justice. Prior to WLC, he served as director of litigation at Civil Rights Corps, where he oversaw cases challenging the criminalization of poverty, particularly in the areas of prosecutor misconduct and wealth-based pretrial detention. Mr. Downer’s direct casework at CRC included a challenge to the New Orleans’ district attorney’s use of fake subpoenas; a lawsuit targeting Maricopa County’s blatant wealth discrimination in its marijuana diversion program; and CRC’s efforts to protect detainees in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Downer also previously served as counsel at Relman, Dane & Colfax, PLLC in Washington, D.C. and as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) in New York. At Relman and LDF, Ryan litigated in the areas of fair housing, employment, environmental justice, and public accommodations at the district court and appellate level, including two of the first cases to challenge blanket criminal records bans imposed by private housing providers. Mr. Downer began his career as a clerk for The Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.