Leadership

2025-2026 MWELA OFFICERS

Avi Kumin
President
Avi Kumin
Katz Banks Kumin, LLP
President-Elect
Steve Pershing
Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman and Fitch, P.C.
 Rosa Koppel
Vice President
Yaida Ford 
Ford Law Pros P.C.
Treasurer
Rosa Koppel
The Law Offices of Larry J. Stein, LLC
 
Secretary
Harini Srinivasan
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
 

2026 Board of Directors

Andrew Adelman, Joseph Greenwald & Laake
Ben Barlow, Smithey Law Group, LLC
Sarah Bessell, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Subhashini Bollini, Correia, & Puth, PLLC
Nekeisha Campbell, Alan Lescht & Associates, P.C.
David R. Cashdan, Cashdan & Kane
Stephen Chertkof, Heller, Huron, Chertkof & Salzman, PLLC
Denise Clark, Clark Law Group
Deborah D'Agostino, Federal Practice Group
Joshua Erlich, The Erlich Law Office
Yaida Ford, Ford Law Pros PC
Dan Gebhardt, Solomon Law Firm, PLLC
Gary Gilbert, Gilbert Employment Law, PC
Rachel Green, Katz Banks Kumin LLP
Mark Hanna
, Murphy Anderson PLLC
Jeanett Henry, Law Office of Jeanett P. Henry
Erika Jacobson White, Joseph Greenwald & Laake, PA
Alan Kabat, Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC
Lauren Khouri, National Women’s Law Center
Rosa Koppel, The Law Offices of Larry J. Stein, LLC
Avi Kumin, Katz Banks Kumin
Omar Melehy, Melehy & Associates, LLC
R. Scott Oswald, The Employment Law Group P.C.
Kevin Owen, Gilbert Employment Law, PC
Andrew Perlmutter, Gilbert Employment Law
Steve Pershing, Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman and Fitch, P.C.
Jonathan Puth, Correia & Puth, PLLC
Kerrie Riggs, Kator Parks, Wesley & Wright PLLC
Donna Rucker, Tully Rinckey, PLLC
Jasmine Santos, Gilbert Employment Law
Michal Shinnar, Joseph Greenwald & Laake, PA
Geoffrey Simpson, Gilbert Employment Law 
Harini Srinivasan, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC