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.

Kevin De Liban is an attorney and the Director of Advocacy at Legal Aid of Arkansas, where he nurtures multi-dimensional efforts to improve the lives of low-income Arkansans in civil legal matters involving health, workers' rights, public benefits, housing, consumer rights, and domestic violence. With Legal Aid, he has represented nearly 2,000 clients and led successful systemic campaigns tackling cutting-edge issues of modern anti-poverty advocacy: ending the state’s use of algorithms that cut the in-home care of elderly and disabled people, stopping Medicaid work reporting requirements that had stripped health insurance from 18,000 people in five months, and overcoming qualified immunity to hold state officials personally liable for running roughshod over constitutional rights. In 2022, he co-founded the Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub, a collaboration between public interest lawyers and technologists to fight the harmful use of tech in public benefits. Kevin regularly presents about imposing accountability on artificial intelligence and algorithms and consults with U.S. and international advocates fighting harmful technologies. His work has appeared on or in the PBS Newshour, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, the Economist, the Verge, and other publications and podcasts. When not practicing law, Kevin is passionately creating music as a rapper.

Joann H. Lee currently serves as Special Counsel on Language Justice at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, where she has provided direct legal services to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the greater Los Angeles area since 2000. Bilingual in Korean, Joann has specialized in family and immigration law, with a focus on representing survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. She has conducted extensive advocacy with government entities to obtain meaningful language services on behalf of linguistically marginalized communities, including filing administrative complaints and litigation based on civil rights mandates. Joann was appointed to and served on the California Judicial Council Language Access Plan Implementation Task Force from 2015-2019. She has coordinated and facilitated the National Language Access Advocates Network since its inception in 2006. Active in the local community, Joann has served on the boards of the Korean American Bar Association, Korean Resource Center, and the Center for the Pacific Asian Family.