Who We AreWho We Are
CRLAF is a statewide non-profit organization providing legal services and policy advocacy for California’s rural poor. We focus on some of the most marginalized communities: the unrepresented, the unorganized and the undocumented. We engage in impact litigation, community education and outreach, legislative and administrative advocacy, and provide public policy leadership on the state and local levels in the areas of labor, housing, education, health, worker safety, pesticides, citizenship, immigration, and environmental justice. We seek to bring social justice to rural poor communities in all of California.
CRLAF staff:
Brian Augusta, Esq. │Director, Housing Project
Santiago Avila-Gomez, Esq. │Director, Education Equity Project
Amparo Cid │Sustainable Rural Communities Project
Shannon M. Going, Esq. │Attorney, Labor & Civil Rights Project, Immigration & Citizenship Project
Daniel Gutierrez │Accountant
Claudia Guzman │Program Assistant
Eliana Kaimowitz, Esq.│Equal Justice Works Fellow, Protecting Children of Immigrants Project
Anne Katten │Director, Pesticide and Work Safety Project
Julia L. Montgomery, Esq. │Director, Agricultural Worker Health Project
Juanita P. Ontiveros │Community Education & Outreach Advocate
Amagda Perez, Esq. │Executive Director
Sergio D. Perez │Program Assistant
Miriam Porter │Director, Development & Planning
Mark Schacht │Deputy Director, Labor & Employment Project
Esmeralda Soria │Director, Sustainable Rural Communities Project
Walter Ramirez │Sustainable Rural Communities Project
Board Members:
Rosa Armendariz│ Education Advocate, Los Medanos College
Silvia Garcia, Esq. │Attorney, Garcia & Birge, APC
Estela Lopez, Esq. | Attorney, San Francisco Superior Court
Manuel Magana │Farm Worker
Richard M. Pearl Esq. │ Attorney, Law Offices of Richard M. Pearl
Leticia Saucedo, Esq.│ Director of Clinical Programs, UC Davis School of Law
Rosario Vasquez│ Community Organizer
