Career Highlights

• Serving as Deputy City Attorney for Half Moon Bay, Cupertino, and Saratoga, and assisting staff at those cities with a range of land use, telecommunications, contracting, and housing issues.
• Assisting Cleveland National Forest Foundation in upholding protections for agricultural land under Williamson Act contract (Cleveland National Forest Foundation v. County of San Diego (2019) 37 Cal.App.5th 1021).
• Helping successfully represent a land trust in a case to enforce a conservation easement protecting sensitive lands in Sonoma County (Sonoma Land Trust v. Thompson, Sonoma County Superior Court Case No. SCV-258010 (2019)).

Community Service, Publications, and Recognitions

• Social Justice and Impact Litigation fellow in the Santa Clara County Counsel’s Office, 2013-2015.

Bar Memberships

Member of the State Bar of California.

Education

UC Berkeley, JD, 2013

Brown University, BA, 2003

About Me

Before law school, I worked for organizations supporting women’s rights movements in Sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico. Growing up on a farm gave me a deep love for the plant kingdom, and I can often be found tending my community garden plot or botanizing on trails throughout the Bay Area. I’m also a fan of backyard cinema.