OFFICERS
Angelina Austin - President
Angelina Austin is an associate attorney at Kazan, McClain, Satterley and Greenwood PLC in Oakland, CA. Angelina is a bay area native who resides in Oakland. She graduated with a B.A. from Mills College and a J.D. from Golden Gate University, School of Law. Angelina is a passionate advocate for social justice, equity and diversity. She promotes these goals by volunteering her time at various bay area law associations organizing panel discussions, law student mock trials, and scholarship opportunities.
Andria Eguia - Vice President
Andria Eguia, a Deputy District Attorney with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, is known for her strong commitment to justice and community empowerment. In addition to her legal career, she is deeply passionate about mentoring the next generation of leaders. Andria serves as the Vice President of WLAC, where she fosters a supportive and inclusive environment for women in the legal profession. She also actively collaborates with Queen’s Bench, East Bay La Raza Lawyers Association, Earl Warren Inn of Court, and Black Women Lawyers Association of Northern California. Outside of her professional work, she is a vibrant part of her Oakland community, leading a community run group every Tuesday evening; and serving as a running mentor and fundraiser for the kids of Running for a Better Oakland.
Jacqueline Khong - Secretary
Jackie Khong is the managing attorney at HartGinney LLP in Oakland, CA. She is a first-generation Vietnamese-Chinese American who graduated from college in her family. Jackie’s dedication to helping minorities and survivors of domestic violence led her to pursue a career in family law where she helps her clients navigate the difficulties that come with a divorce, restraining order, and child custody. Outside of the courtroom, Jackie enjoys baking and finding the best soup dumplings in the Bay Area.
Lee Maranto - Treasurer
Lee Maranto is the principal attorney at Maranto Law, PC in Oakland, CA. He brings his diverse career background in student affairs and diversity and inclusion to his practice areas of: criminal defense, estate planning and trust matters, domestic violence and elder abuse restraining orders and student conduct proceedings in higher education. Lee is originally from Los Angeles and received his B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and his J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law. When not advocating for his clients, Lee enjoys hanging out with his two children, playing poker and enjoying all the awesome things the Bay Area has to offer. Lee is a proud Oakland resident.
Thao “Annie” Le - Communications Co-Chair
Annie Le recently became a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County after passing the July 2024 CA Bar Exam. She is an immigrant from Vietnam, proud daughter of a single mom/ domestic violence survivor, and first-generation graduate with a B.A. from UC Irvine and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. Before the DA’s Office, Annie worked for the Bay Area Legal Aid: Domestic Violence Unit (SF), Family Violence Appellate Project (Oakland), and the Unified Family Court (SF). As a student, Annie received the WLAC: Margaret A. Gannon Legal Education Stipend. She is thrilled to stay connected with WLAC, give back, and pay it forward!
Camille Legendre - Communications Co-Chair
Camille Legendre is an associate attorney at Ropers Majeski, PC in Menlo Park. Camille earned her B.A in Global China Studies from NYU Shanghai, with semesters abroad in Ghana and Spain, before moving to Dublin, Ireland to work for Facebook. In 2021, Camille returned to her native Bay Area to attend Golden Gate University (GGU) School of Law, where she served as President of the Intellectual Property and Privacy Law Association and earned specialization certificates in Business Law and Intellectual Property Law. Now practicing corporate, business, intellectual property, and employment law, Camille maintains close ties to her French heritage by assisting European businesses expanding to the United States and by actively participating in French-American organizations in the Bay Area. Drawing on her own experiences of living abroad and navigating her career through the support of mentors, Camille is passionate about continuing the cycle of mentorship and guidance, and is dedicated to empowering others to achieve their own goals and aspirations.
Deb L. Kinney, a native of Alameda County, is the principal attorney at TrustParency PC, a law firm dedicated to streamlining probate and trust administration services in CA by using innovative technology to create efficiency and transparent communications to create trust in family structures. Deb previously founded an estate planning firm focusing on LBGTQI people and families and continues to serve as a mediator for the SF Probate Court. Deb has been a tireless advocate for LGBTQ and Womens’ rights, serving on boards, participating in local and state legislation, advocating for tax reform at the national level and working on protecting the democratic process for voters.
Directors
Deb L. Kinney
Hayley Lenahan
Hayley M. Lenahan is a partner at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP. She has experience litigating corporate and complex commercial disputes, including stockholder derivative actions, M&A litigation, books and records proceedings, corporate control disputes, copyright and trade secret matters, and various other commercial tort and contract issues. Before joining the California bar, Hayley practiced corporate law in Delaware, where she regularly appeared in Delaware’s state and federal courts, including the Court of Chancery.
Hayley received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (inactive). Hayley is the Vice President of the Villanova Law Women’s Network and is a member of the Corporate and Trial Practice Sections of the Alameda County Bar Association. At Donahue Fitzgerald, she serves as the co-chair of the Women’s Affinity Network.
Johnsenia Brooks
Originally from the Bronx, NY, Johnsenia (she/her) is a first-generation Honduran American and a second-year student at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree in Government and Psychology with a minor in French from Georgetown University in 2020. In college, Johnsenia was an educator at the Arlington County (VA) jail, where she developed a novel literature curriculum, served as an intake specialist at the local Public Defenders Service, and advocated for exoneration in a wrongful conviction case as a part of her class, “Making an Exoneree.” She produced an award-winning documentary related to this exoneree work. Immediately after college, she worked as a paralegal for the Innocence Project. In 2021, she co-founded an events curation brand and worked alongside artists and DJs to curate social events centered around celebrating the Black diaspora. Johnsenia aims to be the go-to attorney for entertainers in the music industry. Johnsenia enjoys lifting weights or taking classes at her local boxing studio.
Julia Lum
Julia Lum is an attorney at Leonard Carder, LLP. She represents public and private sector labor unions and individual workers in all aspects of labor law, including arbitrations, administrative hearings, negotiations, and litigation. Before practicing labor law, she served as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York. Julia earned her law degree at Northeastern University, where she was a public interest law scholar.
Manjula Martin
Manjula Martin is the Managing Attorney at Lamano Law Office. Ms. Martin helps influence how the law is practiced in our community through collaborations with the court, judges, and other leaders, serving as the Chair for the Alameda County Bar Association Criminal Law Section. Her knowledge, education, and expertise are what her reputation in the legal community is built on, along with her beliefs that diversity, compassion, and empathy are among our greatest strengths. She applies these values to our clients and believes that they deserve the best defense and treatment when going through a difficult and often traumatizing time in their life.
Ms. Martin is a top-tier criminal law attorney and a member of the California DUI Lawyers Association. She attended the National College of DUI Defense at the Harvard Law School campus, received the Cali Excellence Award for Criminal Litigation and has been nominated as a Lawyer of Distinction. Prior to Lamano Law Office, she worked in a family law court with the San Francisco Bar Association Legal Services Program representing women seeking to leave abusive situations. She has done Habeas Corpus work for a man wrongfully convicted of murder with the California Supreme Court ultimately hearing the case. In her early years, she clerked for the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, where she worked on domestic violence cases, sexual assault crimes, and felony preliminary hearings. Ms. Martin is an avid traveler and spends time outside of the office with her wife and family, depending on the season, surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, or playing soccer.
Mayeli Soto (she/her/Ella)
Mayeli Soto is a first-generation Honduran-American and is currently a third-year at UC Law San Francisco. Before law school she attended UC Berkeley and worked as a legal assistant for four years at Disability Rights California, where she supported attorneys in complex impact civil litigation cases. As a law student, Mayeli has ventured in different fields of civil law: she was a law clerk for Communities for a Better Environment, Vice President of the UC Environmental Law Association, spent one year as staff editor for the UC Environmental Law Journal, a law clerk for Tobener Ravenscroft LLP and was a student attorney in the UC Law Individual Representation Clinic where she represented multiple clients in wage and hour cases. Her outstanding work as a student attorney earned her the Individual Representation Clinic Outstanding Performance Award of Spring 2024. She is excited to launch her legal career as an attorney in the Bay area and to use her legal knowledge and experience to repower communities.
Parvaneh Wardan
Parvaneh Wardan is a litigation paralegal at Kazan McClain Satterley & Greenwood in Oakland, California where she assists attorneys with complex cases involving catastrophic injury and death as result of exposure to asbestos. Parvaneh received her B.A. in Political Science from San Jose State University where she served as the President of the Political Science Honor Society and interned for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Hon. Robert J. Foley. She also trained as a police officer and graduated from the Napa Valley Police Academy. Parvaneh serves on the WLAC scholarship committee.
Rachel Song
Rachel Song is an associate practicing employment law in San Francisco at Fisher & Phillips, LLP where she advises and represents employers in a wide range of employment matters, including discrimination, wage and hour, wrongful termination, and retaliation claims, as well as data privacy matters. Rachel received her J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings).
Shamira Dwarica
Shamira Dwarica proudly serves the state of California as a Deputy Attorney General in the San Francisco office.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Shamira earned her B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology before making a meaningful impact as a Teach for America educator in Richmond, CA. She went on to achieve her law degree from the University of Missouri, where she honed her legal skills on the Missouri Law Review and gained invaluable experience externing for Chief Magistrate Judge Willie J. Epps, Jr., and the United States Attorney’s Office. Most recently, Shamira served as a judicial law clerk for Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in the Northern District of California.
Shamira is excited to bring her innovative spirit and dedication to WLAC, where she looks forward to empowering and supporting its vibrant membership.
Judicial Liaisons
The Honorable Tamiza Hockenhull Stone - Judicial Liaison
Tamiza Hockenhull Stone was elected to the Alameda County Superior Court bench in June of 2022. Prior to her current service as a Judge, she served the people of Alameda County as a Superior Court Commissioner for almost seven years. Judge Hockenhull Stone has also served as an Administrative Law Judge. Prior to her judicial career, she served as an Adjunct Professor at University of California College of Law (San Francisco), a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco and as a Director of a Court Appointed program while managing her own law firm. Judge Hockenhull Stone has been a board member of the Charles Houston Bar Association and Earl Warren Inns of Court (Past President). She is passionate about mentoring young lawyers and educating young people about their civic duty, the legal profession and the judiciary. Thus, in recent years, Judge Hockenhull Stone has managed the court’s annual Law Day program and festivities.
The Honorable Maria Morga
Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Judge Maria Morga to serve in the Alameda County Superior Court in 2023. Judge Morga currently serves in the Family Law Department of Hayward Hall of Justice. Prior to her appointment, Judge Morga served as a criminal appellate attorney for indigent defendants since 2004. Prior to this service, Judge Morga worked as an associate attorney for private firms, served as a Deputy Public Defender at the San Francisco County Public Defender’s Office, and worked as General Counsel for a startup company. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.