Staff

Angela E. Oh, Esq. - Executive Director

626-584-7494, ext. 36

angela@westernjustice.org

Angela E. Oh previously served on the WJCF Board of Directors and was active with various committees, the most recent being Chair of the Program Committee. She has served as a Mediator for the Office of Affirmative Action Compliance in the County of Los Angeles, presiding over matters involving Title VII complaints. As an attorney in private practice, Ms. Oh specialized in litigation, both criminal defense and civil rights. She has maintained service on select boards including, Women's Policy, Inc. in Washington, D.C., Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, and the Korean American Bar Association of Southern California. She was viewed as a spokesperson on behalf of Asian Americans who were the target of looting, vandalism, and violence following the acquittals of the officers in the state court trial presented by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. In 1997, President William Jefferson Clinton appointed Ms. Oh as one of seven advisors to the President's Initiative on Race. Ms. Oh has lectured nationally and internationally on the subjects of race relations, diversity, leadership in the 21st century, and Asian Americans and civil rights. Her lectures have taken her to the Middle East, China, Korea, the United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland.

  

Janny Kum, MBA - Director of Operations

626-584-7494, ext. 18

janny@westernjustice.org

Janny Kum graduated from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate School with a Master in Business Administration. She joined WJCF in 2004 following a career with The Walt Disney Company and a community-based mediation and conflict resolution services organization. Her responsibilities include fiscal management, grant compliance, human resource, and facility and office rentals. Janny has been trained as a mediator in compliance with the State of California Dispute Resolution Programs Act. She has a Bachelor's degree from University of California, San Diego.

  

Joseph Evans - Property Mananger

626-584-7494 ext. 33

joe@westernjustice.org

 

Barbara Martin - Community Relations Coordinator

626-584-7494

 

Emily Linnemeier, MS - Program Director

626-584-7494, ext. 12

emily@westernjustice.org

Emily Linnemeier received her Masters of Science in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in May 2005 from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, located in Northern Virginia. From Fall 2005-2006, she was a field representative in the Redondo Beach district office of California state Senator Debra Bowen. Previously, she worked as program and editorial assistant for the Middle East Policy Council in Washington, DC. She has also interned with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission on issues of public safety - including working on a safe-passage program for the students of Alain Leroy Locke High School in South LA - and with the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center as a conflict resolution specialist.

 

Monya Kian, MA - Program Coordinator

626-584-7494, ext. 23

monya@westernjustice.org

Monya Kian received her Masters in Peace and Justice Studies from the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. For her Masters thesis, she conducted conflict resolution research at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in Tanzania. Her research included interviews in both French and English with Tanzanian government and UN officials, and also with refugees and tribal leaders to develop conflict resolution systems and protocols within that camp. Monya has also received formal mediation training from the National Conflict Resolution Center and Bridge Mediation. She has worked as a certified mediator at Bridge Mediation and has created the curriculums for “International Negotiations and Conflict Resolution” and “Business Ethics” courses, which she co-taught at UCSD Extension for almost two years. Monya hold a Bachelors in International Relations with Distinction and Minor in Human Rights from the University of Washington, and a Diplôme from L’Institute D’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in France. She is fluent in Farsi, French, and English, and basic Spanish.

 

Abbie Genzink - Program Associate

626-584-7494, ext. 21

abbie@westernjustice.org

Abbie Genzink currently works to assist in the development and implementation of programs for the Western Justice Center and previously worked as the Adminstrative Assistant. She received her BA in Interpersonal Communications from Azusa Pacific University in 2004, and during her time there she developed and implemented a new student orientation for transfer students that continue to be used today.

 

Natalie Cohen - Administrative Assistant

626-584-7494, ext. 10

natalie@westernjustice.org

Natalie Cohen, Administrative Assistant, majored in English Literature at Marlboro College in Southern Vermont. Before coming to Western Justice, she was a district intern for 49th District Assemblymember Mike Eng and a development intern for Hillsides, a Pasadena non-profit foster care center.