The Illinois Legal Aid Online Young Professionals Board (“YPB”) is an organized group of up-and-coming leaders who engage in networking, socializing, outreach and philanthropy in support of the organization’s mission to use technology in innovative ways to increase access to justice for lower-income Illinois residents.

The YPB’s goals are to:
1) increase awareness about Illinois Legal Aid Online and its services,
2) host opportunities for networking and fundraising, and
3) introduce the next generation of leaders to non-profit board membership and governance.

For more information or to join the YPB, please contact us.

Members

Will Murphy, Co-Chair, Phillips Law Offices

Lauren Sylvester Berheide, Co-Chair, Freeborn & Peters LLP

Mike Draz, Board Liaison, Vedder Price, P.C.

Ashley Garfield, Communications Chair, Law Offices of Grant & Grant

Joey Gartner, Membership Committee Co-Chair, Gartner and Bondavalli, LLP

John Ochoa, Membership Committee Co-Chair, Edelson LLC

Jack O'Connor, Social Committee Co-Chair, Sugar, Felsenthal, Grais & Hammer LLP

Sean Kruskol, Social Committee Co-Chair, Navigant Consulting, Inc.

Kelly Cronin, Outreach Chair, The Capps Law Firm

Rob Adams, Attorney at Law

Peter Bartoszek, Kirkland & Ellis

Sean-Paul Beausang, Veritext

Andrew Fraerman, DLA Piper LLP

Jacob Gilbert, Illinois Legal Aid Online

Urmi Graft, CME Group

Kristina Hendricks, Kirkland & Ellis

Jaime Hochhausen, LexisNexis

Cristina Headley, John Marshall Fair Housing Legal Clinic

Stephanie Irwin, Fish Kart Katz & Reagan Ltd.

Maris Jager, Rooney Rippie & Ratnaswamy LLP

Megan Kokontis, Freeborn & Peters

Lauren Matecki, Perkins Coie LLP

Matt Passen, Passen Law Group

Michelle Sinkovits, Anderson & Bobak

Raj Sultanian, Sidley Austin

John Sviokla, John Marshall Law School '14

Matt Swenson, Emerson Law Firm

Sean Williams, The Law Offices of Williams & Associates, P.C.