1. Berkeley Law Foundation
15th Annual Auction Extravaganza
November 6, 2010
David Brower Center
All proceeds benefit
the Phoenix fellowships
blf.boalt.org

2. Berkeley Law Foundation
The Berkeley Law Foundation (BLF) is an income shar-
ing organization comprised of Boalt students and
alumni who are dedicated to providing legal services
to historically under-served communities. Started in
1976 by Boalt students, BLF was the first organization
of its kind in the nation.
BLF provides direct funding to support public interest
law and promote diversity in the legal profession.
Every year, BLF gives out dozens of summer grants to
current Boalt students for public interest legal intern-
ships, and awards larger year-long grants to new
attorneys to launch new legal service initiatives
around the country. In 1997, BLF inaugurated the
Phoenix Fellowship, for Boalt students of color with
an outstanding commitment to public interest legal
work.
15th Annual Auction Extravaganza Planning Committee
Audrey Barron Cozette Tran-Caffee
Mary Gilbert Yanin Senachai
Ary Amerikaner
We would like to thank the following organizations, community members and individuals for going
above and beyond to make the 15th Annual Auction Extravaganza a success:
Hannah Alsgaard David Oppenheimer Mark G. and Judy Yudof
Sonja Diaz Diana Rashid Back to Easrth Catering
Erin Everett Neil Satterlund David Brower Center
Jeff Halley Tirien Steinbach Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc.
Tam Ma Susan Schechter And over 100 BLF student and alumni
John Mills Kathleen Vanden-Heuvel volunteers
Board Members Honorary Directors
Ary Amerikaner Joey Hipolito Anya Binsacca
Holly Baldwin Arthur Liou Chris Daley
Audrey Barron Madeline Neighly Amy DeVaudreuil
Lin A. Chin Yanin Senachai Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez
Yohance Edwards Blake Thompson Michelle Leung
Lisa Ells Cozette Tran-Caffee Dave Pogrel
Mary Gilbert Kathleen Vanden-Heuvel Harini Raghupathi
Jon Givner Jessie Warner Gail Silverstein
Cover design by Neil Satterlund Layout by Alexandra Widmann

3. 15th Annual Auction Extravaganza
Event Sponsors
The Berkeley Law Foundation board would like to thank the following sponsors for their
generous support of this evening’s Auction Extravaganza.
Champion of Diversity Advocate of Diversity
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
Farella Braun + Martel LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Guardian of Diversity King & Spalding
Leonard Carder, LLP Mayer Brown LLP
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Rutan & Tucker, LLP
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Supporter of Diversity
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Berkeley Law Journal Sponors
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OF
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and
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5. Business and Community Donors
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Adagia Restaurant Hipline Belly Dance Fitness Scandia Family Fun Center
Aquarium of the Bay Hornblower Cruises & Events Safeway
BARBRI House of Air San Francisco Choral Artists
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Berkeley Bowl Latham & Watkins LLP The Albatross
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California Golden Bears Men’s Basketball Philosophy Tournesol
California Canoe and Kayak Planet Granite Vintage Berkeley
Cal Student Store Ron Pokrasso, Artist Vintage Wine Estates
Dehlinger Winery Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP Westlaw
Boalt Faculty and Clinic Donors
Catherine Albiston Joan Hollinger Lindsay Saffouri
Ty Alper Chris Hoofnagle Talha Sayed
Michelle Anderson Patricia Plunkett Hurley Jason Schultz
Robert Bartlett Luan Huynh Paul Schwartz
Cheryl Berg Prasad Krishnamurthy Elisabeth Semel
Bob Berring Sarah Laubach Lucinda Sikes
Eric Biber Joseph Lavitt David Sklansky
Stephen Bundy Nancy Lemon Fred Smith
Richard Buxbaum Gillian Lester Tirien Steinbach
Jesse Choper Michael Levy Stephen Sugarman
Erin Clarke Neil Levy Eleanor Swift
Michelle Cole Katerina Linos Claire Sylvia
Robert Cole Justin McCrary Eric Talley
Maria Echaveste Peter Menell Jennifer Urban
Lauren Edelman Saira Mohamed Kathleen Vanden Huevel
Dean Edley Melissa Murray Molly Van Houweling
Aaron Edlin Ann O'Connell Jan Vetter
Bill Fernholz David Oppenheimer Leti Volpp
Mary Louise Frampton Victoria Plautt Chuck Weisselberg
Mark Gergen Kevin Quinn Susan Whitman
Ian Haney Lopez Steve Rosenbaum John Yoo
Student Donors
Andrew Fong Dash Kwiatkowski Darren Modzelewski (Anthro. PhD)
Wyatt Glenn Lucas Love Casey Schutte
Marie Jonas Tam Ma Adam Sterling
James Stevens

6. The Phoenix Fellowship
In 1997, the Berkeley Law Foundation (BLF) inaugurated
the Phoenix Fellowship, which it awards every year to
admitted Boalt students who have demonstrated an
outstanding committment to community service. BLF
offers the Fellowship as part of its committment to deseg-
regate higher education in the aftermath of Proposition 209 and break down the barriers for lawyers of
color to pursue public interest careers. In 1998, the National Association of Public Interest Law (now called
Equal Justice Works) awarded BLF a prestigious national commendation for its creation and administration
of this crucial and unique mechanism for student recruitment and ongoing support at the country’s leading
public law school.
The Phoenix Fellowship offers recipients a $9,000 scholarship for the first year of law school. It also funds
Phoenix Fellows for summer public interest work serving underprivileged and underrepresented commu-
nities. Phoenix Fellows have served with a range of social justice organizations, including the Center for
Constitutional Rights, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Volunteer Lawyers for
the Arts, California Rural Legal Assistance, New Orleans Legal Assistance, Legal Services of Northern
California, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Aaron Bianco (Class of 2011)
Aaron is a former foster youth from Richmond, California, who is devoted to
the cause of supporting foster youth in the transition to adulthood. In 2001,
Aaron successfully helped lobby Congress to supplement foster care spending
with $47 million in scholarship grants. As part of his Phoenix Fellowship, he
created a best practices manual to guide foster youth and interested practitio-
ners, through the process of emancipation. Currently, Aaron is working with
Bay Area organizations to preserve funding for California and foster youth
services. Aaron graduated from Princeton University and plans to use his law
degree to improve the national infrastructure for emancipating foster youth.
Tam Mai Ma (Class of 2011)
Tam is a third-year law student at UC Berkeley Law School and is currently a
judicial extern for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, United States Magistrate
Judge for the Eastern District of California. Tam has worked on a wide range
of poverty law issues as a law clerk with Legal Services of Northern California,
East Bay Community Law Center and the California Rural Legal Assistance
Foundation. Prior to attending law school, Tam was a California Senate Fellow
and spent six years working as a policy consultant to State Senator Sheila
Kuehl, where she advised the Senator on legislation before the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee and issues relating to housing and tenants' rights, gender-
based crimes, social services and immigrants’ rights.

7. Tam currently serves on the board of the Women’s Foundation of California. She is a long-time volunteer
with My Sister's House, a Sacramento-based shelter for Asian and Pacific Islander survivors of domestic
violence and has served as its board chair. Tam's volunteer work with the Women's Policy Institute of the
Women’s Foundation of California and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum has helped to
develop the capacity of progressive women leaders to influence California public policy.
Tam received her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in City Planning from the University of California,
Berkeley. As an Americorps volunteer, Tam ran a literacy program at a juvenile probation camp. A native of
Los Angeles, Tam has lived in Northern California all of her adult life. She plans to combine her legal training
and her policy experience to continue working for social justice.
Amaha Imanuel Kassa (Class of 2012)
Tam is a third-year law student at UC Berkeley Law School and is currently a
judicial extern for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, United States Magis-
trate Judge for the Eastern District of California. Tam has worked on a wide
range of poverty law issues as a law clerk with Legal Services of Northern
California, East Bay Community Law Center and the California Rural Legal
Assistance Foundation. Prior to attending law school, Tam was a California
Senate Fellow and spent six years working as a policy consultant to State
Senator Sheila Kuehl, where she advised the Senator on legislation before
the Senate Judiciary Committee and issues relating to housing and tenants'
rights, gender-based crimes, social services and immigrants’ rights.
Yanin Senachai (Class of 2012)
Yanin was born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in the Crenshaw District of
Los Angeles. She worked for six years at the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute
on Domestic Violence, fostering national collaborations and ethnic specific
organizing to develop and promote culturally relevant advocacy for Asian,
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander victims of domestic violence. As a
summer intern at Bay Area Legal Aid, Yanin assisted undocumented women
in applying for U-Visas and advocated for low-income, homeless and
disabled clients in appealing their denials of social security and disability
benefits. She is currently an intern at the East Bay Community Law Center,
assisting individuals being sued over consumer debt. Along with Makda
Goitom (Class of 2012), Yanin is co-chair of the Boalt Chapter of the National
Lawyers Guild. Through her future career in law, Yanin aims to advance the availability and effectiveness of
legal services for survivors and ultimately improve victims’ access to personal safety, financial security, and
well-being.

8. Sonja Diaz (Class of 2013)
Sonja Diaz has extensive work experience in the public sector, facilitating advo-
cacy campaigns, directing qualitative and quantitative research projects, and
organizing multi-cultural programming. As an undergraduate at the University
of California, Santa Cruz, Sonja was a research assistant, teaching assistant,
and student director for outreach and retention programs. After her under-
graduate studies, Sonja advocated on behalf of communities of color in the
most recent California health expansion debate as a Health Fellow at Latino
Issues Forum and architected the first interactive online advocacy portal
specifically designed to increase the civic participation of Latina registered
voters in California as an associate at Hispanas Organized for Political Equality
(HOPE). As a graduate student, Sonja directed a longitudinal participatory
research study on neighborhood public school choice reforms within LAUSD as a researcher for UCLA’s
Center X, documented the propensity of telemedicine to benefit urban communities as a Summer Associ-
ate at the Greenlining Institute, and advocated against the budget cuts to public higher education state-
wide. Sonja is a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) fellow, a graduate of the Applied Research
Center’s Racial Justice Leadership Institute, and holds a Masters of Public Policy from UCLA's School of
Public Affairs. Born and raised in urban Los Angeles, Sonja hopes to refine the skills necessary to advance
civil rights laws and equitable public policies for marginalized communities on federal and municipal levels.
Diana Rashid (Class of 2013)
Diana was born in Michoacan, Mexico. Her family immigrated to the US when
she was five. She was raised in Chicago where became a leader in the immi-
grant rights movement during high school, when she began organizing youth
to fight for financial aid and access to higher education for undocumented
students. As a high school student, Diana was instrumental in passing Illinois
legislation granting in-state tuition to undocumented students. As an under-
graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she founded
a student organization that worked to advance the DREAM Act and organized
in the local community for comprehensive immigration reform. After college,
Diana organized in Seattle where she won community benefits agreements at local hospitals and advanced
language access in local hospitals. Most recently Diana was an organizer with the East Bay Alliance for a
Sustainable Economy in Oakland, where she developed a coalition of labor unions and community organi-
zations to advocate for immigration reform that protected immigrant workers’ rights to organize. After law
school, Diana plans to continue fighting to change federal immigration laws to protect immigrant workers'
rights and provide undocumented students access to higher education.

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