626-584-7494, ext. 36
angela@westernjustice.org

Ms. Angela E. Oh is Of Counsel to the law firm of Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks & Lincenberg, where she created a practice that includes mediation, monitoring of consent decrees involving employment discrimination, and training on state and federal anti-discrimination laws. Ms. Oh has been involved with the Western Justice Center for over six years as an active Board Member, has chaired the Western Justice Center Program Committee, and has accepted the role of Interim Executive Director as a special assignment for the period during which Syeed-Miller will be on leave.

 

626-584-7494, ext. 33
joe@westernjustice.org

Conflict Resolution Education
626-584-7494, ext. 12
marquez@westernjustice.org

Marquez Equalibria holds a Master of Arts degree in International Peace and Conflict
Resolution, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from American
University , Washington , DC.  His responsibilities include management of the Healthy
Families Cooperative, the Partnership for Families, the Peer Mediation Invitational, and
in charge of fulfilling any training requests, as well as handling any other conflict
resolution education matters.  He has also worked as a facilitator, trainer and program
coordinator for parent/youth mediation and student peer mediation programs.  His
Master's thesis was in the area of workplace conflict resolution, based on conflict he
addressed with employees and managers through coaching, trainings, and informal
facilitations.

Community Engagement
626-584-7494, ext. 23
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.

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 has over seven years of experience in business and finance and 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.

626-584-7494, ext. 13
jackie@westernjustice.org

Jackie Landy has been a fund raiser for 14 years including positions as the Director of Development for Covenant House California from 1996 to 2000 and Foothill Family Service from 2000 to 2004. She was an Assistant Vice President, Foundation Giving,
Communications and Annual Giving for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Foundation before she joined Western Justice Center Foundation. Prior to becoming a fund raiser, Ms. Landy was a paralegal and law firm administrator for nearly 16 years, and a copy and content editor for a published author.

626-584-7494

626-584-7494, ext. 21
erin@westernjustice.org

Her responsibilities include volunteer management, program assistance and general
administrative assistance for the Executive Director. Ms. Moore joined WJCF in 2006
and has previously worked at Human Rights Watch in Event Planning and at Sirius
Satellite Radio in Human Resources. She graduated from the University of Southern
California with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and a minor from the
Marshall School of Business.

626-584-7494, ext. 10
abbie@westernjustice.org

Abbie joined the ranks of the Western Justice Center staff in April of 2007 and is often the voice you hear when calling into the office.  Abbie graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 2004 with a B.A. in Communication Studies, and it was there that she was first introduced to professional Conflict Resolution through a Conflict Management class. She has previously worked in event planning, program development and the coffee industry.

626-584-7494, ex. 15
nelson@westernjustice.org

Nelson Pichardo brings 11 years of program development and project management experience in the areas of parenting, child abuse, domestic violence, school readiness, organizational development, health, mental health, homelessness, workforce development, and technology applications to nonprofits.

His experiences in developing, implementing, and evaluating programs have been at the local, county, and state wide levels. He has extensive experience in managing federal grants and county contracts.

Mr. Pichardo holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Masters in Public Administration. His graduate thesis resulted in the creation of an instructional text for nonprofit operations.

626-584-7494 ex. 36
najeeba@westernjustice.org

Previously, Najeeba served as the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC), which has provided mediation and conciliation services for the diverse Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander community as well as youth based conflict resolution programs for schools. Najeeba was instrumental in the expansion of youth and community programs through innovative partnerships and initiatives such as the South Asian Mediation Initiative to offer mediation services to communities targeted for hate crimes after 9/11. Under her directorship, one of the youth programs was awarded the John Anson Ford Award for improving human relations in South Los Angeles (LA County Human Relations Commission, 2001) and received funding from the LA City Human Relations Commission to start a unique peer mediation program at LeConte Middle School. Najeeba has attended over 400 hours of conflict resolution training and mediated a large number of cases, including youth oriented disputes, inter-racial disputes and community based conflicts. She has trained hundreds of people in mediation skills ranging from prosecutors to community leaders. She is experienced in the area of inter-religious conflict resolution. She chaired three national conferences on Muslim Peacebuilding. Najeeba has written and researched in the areas of law, religion, and family issues. She has extensive experience in dialogue design and facilitation, having served as one of the international facilitators for the America Speaks World Trade Center dialogue project and leading hundreds of community members in Los Angeles, Pasadena and surrounding cities in public dialogues on race and community/police conflicts. Najeeba has trained international relief workers who will be serving in Afghanistan on issues of cross-cultural conflict resolution. In addition, in 2001 she trained University of Southern California students who will serve as relief workers in Africa and Asia. She assisted USC in its design of a peer mediation program and trained the first class of mediators. Najeeba served as the Chair of the South Asian Bar Association Judicial Evaluations Committee. She was recently elected to the national Board of Directors for the National Association for Community Mediation and was appointed as a member of the National Coalition of Dialogue and Deliberation Board of Directors. She was appointed to a three year term for California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Najeeba is a Commissioner on the City of Pasadena Commission on the Status of Women and a Board member of the Pasadena Child Health Foundation. Najeeba served on the Guest Advisory Board, Department of Justice grant for the Fuller Theological Seminary on Just Peacemaking. She has served on the Blackmun Scholarship committee for the California Women's Law Center. Najeeba is chairing the Diversity/Conflict Intervention Committee of the National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation.. Najeeba graduated in 2000 from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. While in law school, Najeeba was the Coordinator of Student Mediation Services and awarded the Oexmann Fellowship for her work in community conflict resolution. Najeeba designed and taught a graduate/undergraduate course on campus based dispute resolution. She currently teaches Intercultural Conflict Resolution, a master's course at California State University, Dominguez Hills. During college, she served as the Coordinator for the Peace and Conflict Studies Department and was awarded the Hazel Steinfeldt Scholarship for excellence in community conflict resolution work. She is a graduate of the month long inter-ethnic conflict management trainings International Institute of Conflict Resolution program held in The Hague. She has made presentations at universities such as Harvard Divinity School and other institutions on the area of conflict resolution and minority communities.