Diego Cartagena is the President & CEO of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a legal services agency founded by members of the Jewish community nearly 50 years ago and dedicated to providing free legal services to low-income individuals in Los Angeles County. Diego joined Bet Tzedek in 2012 as Director of Pro Bono Programs and was promoted Vice President of Pro Bono in 2015. In 2017, Diego became Bet Tzedek’s Vice President of Legal Programs and helped launch several of the organization’s exemplary programs, including the Preventing & Ending Homelessness Project, Family Preparedness program, Harbor UCLA Medical-Legal Partnership, and Small Business Development Project. Diego assumed the position of CEO in 2020. Diego received his BA and J.D. from UCLA.

Marnie Berk, Director of Pro Bono Programs, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) Marnie Berk is the Director of Pro Bono Programs at NYLPI where she runs the organization’s Pro Bono Clearinghouse. Through partnerships with the private bar, she connects New York’s best legal talent with the most effective nonprofits working on behalf of underserved communities across the city. Before joining NYLPI, Marnie was previously a corporate associate at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison and Hogan Lovells. She served as a Program Director for Safe Horizon and as a Program Director for Homes for the Homeless. She is a graduate of Hampshire College and CUNY Law School. Marnie has sat on the boards of several nonprofits and is currently on the board of the Shomer Collective.

Molly Meltzer is the Director of Pro Bono at Brooklyn Defender Services ("BDS") which provides holistic defense and an interdisciplinary framework in the areas of criminal defense, family defense, immigration, and civil matters. In her role as Director of Pro Bono she develops and manages the organization's pro bono program across all practices with the goal of leveraging resources for the clients and communities BDS serves. Molly is also the Training Manager on the adolescent team at BDS representing adolescent offenders in criminal and family courts. Prior to working in the pro bono sphere, Molly worked as a juvenile defender at the Legal Aid Society and as an attorney in BDS' Family Defense Practice. Molly was one of the creators of Pando a national pro bono conference. She has spoken on the topics of the role of the attorney for the child; representing teen parents and best practices in pro bono. In 2018, Molly was Director of Pro Bono at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles, a large civil legal aid organization. Molly is a graduate of Tufts University and American University, Washington College of Law.