Silvia Argueta has been the Executive Director at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) since 2008. LAFLA is the frontline law firm for low-income individuals in Los Angeles County. LAFLA is committed to promoting access to justice, strengthening communities, fighting discrimination, and effecting systemic change through representation, advocacy, and community education. Silvia leads a 200+ staff non-profit law firm with five offices, four self-help centers, three courthouse domestic violence clinics, and six medical-legal partnerships. She oversees an annual budget of over $40 million and all aspects of strategy, legal advocacy, finance, fund development, and technology. She recently oversaw an $18 million capital campaign and construction of LAFLA’s new headquarters, a cornerstone of justice that brings respect and dignity to both clients and staff. Silvia’s career has been devoted to achieving equal justice using direct representation, civil litigation and policy to effect change. Prior to joining LAFLA in 1999, she was a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and prior to that at the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California. She attended UCLA and obtained her degrees in Political Science and French in 1985. She received her law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1989.

Arash Jahanian is Colorado Legal Services' advocacy director for Denver. In this role, Jahanian oversees the work of CLS' eight Denver-based units: consumer, housing, public benefits, farmworker rights, survivor services, low-income taxpayers, family and children, and the ID project.  He was previously Senior Counsel at Denver Public Schools, where his main responsibility involved the District's longstanding consent decree relating to services for English Language Learners and their families. Jahanian’s prior legal experience includes working as Director of Policy and Civil Rights Litigation at the Meyer Law Office, PC, staff attorney at the ACLU of Colorado, attorney at the civil rights firm Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC, and judicial clerk for the Honorable Wiley Y. Daniel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Jahanian has served as president of the Colorado LGBT Bar Association and chair of the Denver LGBTQ Commission. A graduate of the University of North Carolina and Georgetown Law, he is currently secretary of the board of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado and on the ACLU of Colorado's legal panel. 

Shawntel Williams (she/her) is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. In her project, Shawntel advocates on behalf of Filipino migrants who are identified as survivors of labor trafficking by providing them with holistic legal representation to redress the economic and emotional harm they have endured throughout their trafficking. In addition to her project, Shawntel supports LAFLA's Asian Pacific Islander Community Outreach Project by advocating for improved language access across API communtiies. Shawntel's fellowship is sponsored by Kirkland & Ellis and Albertsons.