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ABOUT US

The Center for Youth Development through Law is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1999. Our Employer ID Number is 94-3310546.  We operate in cooperation with the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, but we are funded independently.

We are grateful to our generous
major sponsors for 2024:

The Mary and Stan Friedman Family
Greg Smith Charitable Fund
West Contra Costa Unified School District 
Bernard E. and Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation

and to our many other supporting

organizations and individuals

For a complete list of our 2024 donors, click here
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Hon. Brenda Harbin-Forte (center),
CYDL Leadership Council Member, with students after their Mock Trial

Our Leadership

Board of Directors

Anitha Anne

Attorney
Cooley LLP


Jesse Berkowitz

Attorney

Jesse Berkowitz Law

Theresa Buckley

Attorney

California Public Utilities Commission


Allyson Deraps

Attorney

Deraps Law

Hon. Danielle Douglas

Judge
Superior Court of

Contra Costa County

Hon. Joni Hiramoto

Judge
Superior Court of
Contra Costa County
 

Hon. Jesse Hsieh

Judge

Superior Court of 
Contra Costa County​

Jin Im-Saeteurn

Senior Counsel

Chan & Punzalan

Hon. Glenn Kim

Judge
Superior Court of

Contra Costa County

Su-Jin Lee

COO and General Counsel
Axyz

Neri Lozano

Fellow 

Canal Alliance

Khiari Neal

Program Alumna '17,

Student

UC Berkeley School of Law


James G. Roberts

Attorney
 

Hon. Charles Smiley

Judge

Superior Court of

Alameda County
 

Cherrie Tan

Program Alumna '09,
Attorney

Kimball, Tyrey & St. John LLP

Ben Therriault

Police Detective

City of Richmond
 

Adam Wilks

Deputy District Attorney

Contra Costa County

Michael Wilson

Assistant Public Defender

Alameda County

Leadership Council

 

Brian Barsky

Ray Cardozo

Stanley Friedman

Ben Hamburg

Hon. Brenda Harbin-Forte

Hon. Barbara Lee

Melissa Nelken

Reginald Oh

Dorian Peters, Program Alumnus

Miriam Rokeach

Winslow O. Small


UC Berkeley School of Law Faculty Advisor

Catherine Albiston

Professor

UC Berkeley School of Law

Executive Director

Nancy Schiff

nschiff@youthlawworks.org

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