Shayla Myers is the Director of Impact Litigation and Policy at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA).  There, she oversees LAFLA’s strategic advocacy, which is aimed at addressing systemic disparities impacting low income people in Los Angeles. Before taking on this role, she spent over ten years at LAFLA fighting for the civil rights of unhoused residents and to prevent the expansion of laws that criminalize homelessness. Currently, she is lead counsel on litigation challenging the constitutionality of public space regulations and represents unhoused residents in litigation brought by the business community against the City of Los Angeles. Before joining LAFLA, she was a Skadden Fellow at the Los Angeles LGBT Center and then an associate at a Plaintiff’s side civil rights firm in Los Angeles. Shayla clerked for the Honorable Sandra Segal Ikuta on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and graduated from UCLA Law School, with concentrations in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies. Before attending law school, Shayla coordinated an advocacy program and hotline for sexual assault survivors in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she grew up.

Jeffrey M. Hearne is the Chief Advocacy Officer at Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., the largest provider of civil legal aid for the low-income communities in Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Jeff oversees the firm's significant litigation and provides a strategic focus to the firm's advocacy in all its practice areas. Jeff has been an attorney at Legal Services for more than twenty years and has focused his career on preventing evictions and enforcing the rights of tenants. Jeff was also the Director of the Tenants’ Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law from 2010 until 2023. He currently serves on the Florida Bar’s Civil Procedure Rules Committee and is a former co-chair of the Florida Housing Umbrella Group, the statewide association of tenant advocates. Jeff has received several honors for his work representing tenants, including the Consumer Protection Lawyer of the Year from the Florida Bar’s Consumer Protection Law Committee (2018), and the Housing Justice Award from the National Housing Law Project (2015). He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (J.D. 2001, B.A., Plan II, 1998).