Staff

Brian is a graduate of the University of Connecticut (B.A) and the University of New Hampshire, School of Law(JD).  Brian joined South Coastal Counties Legal Services in 2005 as a staff attorney after a 20 year career as a Criminal Defense Attorney. In 2011 Brian became the Program Manager of the Justice Center.  He has assisted thousands of families in housing and benefits cases, and supervised the provision of legal services by dozens of attorneys. Brian is also involved in many local, state-wide and federal campaigns aiming to promote access to justice for  all members of our community.

Emily Leung is the supervising immigration Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. In this role, she oversees a robust team of immigration advocates who engage in direct representation, community education, and impact advocacy affecting immigrant populations. Previously she worked as a staff Attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute focusing on immigration policy and advocacy and was the Albert M. Sacks Clinical & Advocacy Fellow at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. She has worked at numerous boutique firms and non-profit organizations focused on asylum law, family-based petitions, removal defense, and other humanitarian-based relief. Emily received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law and her M.A. in International Relations, also from Boston University.

Amy Copperman is the Program Director for AmeriCorps Legal Advocates of Massachusetts. Amy worked at the Women’s Prison Association and MDRC in New York City before moving to Massachusetts to attend law school. Amy received a Skadden Fellowship in to launch her career in public interest law at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. She practiced housing law for twelve years at MLRI where she specialized in fair housing, class action litigation, public and subsidized housing tenancies, and tenants’ rights. While at MLRI, Amy was the editor for three editions of Legal Tactics: Finding Public and Subsidized Housing. Amy received her BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and her JD from Harvard Law School. Amy also has a Chef’s Certificate from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and serves on the Board of Directors for Food For Free.

Kyla Graves is the AmeriCorps Legal Advocates of Massachusetts Program Coordinator. She supports our AmeriCorps members during their service year, manages data collection efforts on behalf of the program, designs training opportunities and offers guidance to members and supervisors alike. She also assists with grant compliance and program design. Kyla has dual Masters degrees: an MA in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence from the Heller School at Brandeis; and an MA in International Law and Human Rights from the UN Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Prior to accepting the Program Coordinator position, she was an intern at the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence in Indonesia where she researched enforced disappearances and other crimes against humanity. She has a background in program management as a prior supervisor at the YMCA in Greenfield.

Abeer Massri is an Attorney with the Immigration Unit at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts in Brockton.

Ashley Francisque is an education Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Attorney Francisque represents students and their families in various school related issues, including school discipline and special education matters. In 2015, she served as the Bart Gordon Fellow for two years working in partnership with the Center for Law and Education on a project focused on systemically addressing school policies that negatively impacted students who attended Brockton, New Bedford and Fall River school districts. She received her B.A. degree in Political Science at Boston College and received her J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School.

Caddie Nath-Folsom is an Attorney with the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Her practice involves helping immigrant clients with various legal problems, including immigration applications, divorce and other cases in family court, and deportation defense in immigration court. Caddie practices under the Civil Legal Aid for Victims of Crime program, meaning that she specializes in providing trauma-informed services to people who have been victims of crime, including domestic violence and childhood abuse. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver and her masters and law degree from Boston University.

Emily Brunelle is serving her second year at Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts through the AmeriCorps Legal Advocates of Massachusetts program. As an immigration advocate, she assists Attorneys with direct representation cases and coordinates with local organizations to bolster community engagement and provide services like consultation clinics and educational workshops. She received her BA in Anthropology from Bridgewater State University.

Gabriella Roselli is a staff Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Her practice involves advising and representing victims of crime in their civil legal cases, specifically in family law matters. This includes divorce, custody, child support, and restraining order cases. Additionally, Gabriella serves on local and statewide Family Law and Domestic Violence task force committees working on impact advocacy projects. After a brief career in local news, Gabriella went back to school and received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law

Hed joined the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts in 2017 as a staff attorney. In this role, he has assisted hundreds of families facing eviction, foreclosure, and bad housing conditions in various legal proceedings against private landlords, banks, and public housing authorities. Hed is also involved in many local and state-wide campaigns aiming to promote access to safe, healthy, and stable housing to all members of our community.
Hed is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he received degrees in law and city planning (B.A, LL.B, LL.M) and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on housing code enforcement (LL.M, J.S.D). Hed is admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and California.

Jessica De Loureiro is a Senior Attorney with the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts (“JCSM”). Jessica provides legal advice and direct representation in predominantly immigration matters, with a focus on humanitarian benefits, asylum, and removal defense. She also serves on the state-wide Language Access Coalition and is a staunch advocate of language access rights. Jessica initially joined the JCSM in 2013 as a member of AmeriCorps Legal Advocates of Massachusetts (formerly the Massachusetts Legal Assistance for Self-Sufficiency Program). She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law and Lafayette College. Jessica speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

Henry Gunther is an Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. His role includes direct representation, community education, and impact advocacy.

John Soraghan is an AmeriCorps Legal Advocate at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Working with the immigration unit under the supervision of Attorney Caddie Nath-Folsom, his role will primarily involve assisting the team through form preparation, research, and screening potential clients. Before his work at the Justice Center, John studied psychology at the College of the Holy Cross where he was a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Lab. His work experience includes being a Research Assistant at UMass Medical where he was on a team investigating more efficacious forms of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for people with Alcohol Use Disorder. John has been a volunteer for both the Marie Anne Center in Worcester, and the Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts in Methuen; teaching English to immigrant populations in both programs.

Karen Guinn assists attorneys with direct representation in immigration cases and provides immigration representation as a DOJ Accredited Representative before the Immigration Court, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Previously she served as an AmeriCorps Legal Advocate for two consecutive years. Karen was admitted to practice law in her native Colombia and received a Master of Law in Human Rights from Northeastern University School of Law.

Kimberly Yox (Kim) is a Senior Attorney practicing family law at Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. She represents survivors of intimate partner abuse in complex domestic relations matters, such as divorce, custody, support, and abuse prevention matters. As part of the Family Law Task Force, she works with other advocates and legal services Attorneys on impact and legislative advocacy to advance the interests of domestic violence survivors. Kim received her B.A. from Douglass College/Rutgers University and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

Laura F. Camara is the Directing Attorney of Housing Advocacy at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. She is a proud AmeriCorps alumnus having served two years with the program from 2011-2013 as an Attorney with South Coastal Counties Legal Services; she has continued to serve as a supervisor for new members entering the program. Attorney Camara previously practiced in the areas of family and elder law but now specializes in housing and benefit matters, particularly in the areas of public and subsidized housing and housing protections for survivors of domestic violence. She currently serves as the co-chair of the Brockton DTA Advisory Board, sits on the Access to Justice Commission Housing Working Group, is a member of the Plymouth County Bar Association, and is an active participant in the Tenancy Preservation Program’s Steering Committee. Attorney Camara received her J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo with concentrations in Finance and Affordable Housing and Community Development and is admitted to both the Massachusetts and New York bars.

Laura Perez-Landin is an AmeriCorps Legal Advocate at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. She serves in the Education Unit. Attorney Ashley Francisque will be supervising. Prior to serving as an AmeriCorps Legal Advocate, she served as an AmeriCorps member with the education nonprofit organization City Year in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During her time with City Year, she served at Claiborne/Howell Park Elementary, where she aided teacher instruction and provided socio-emotional support to students. She is from Los Angeles and is bilingual in Spanish and English. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BA in English and a BA in Film and Media Studies.

Marin Tollefson Almeida is an immigration Attorney with the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. She works with clients in all types of immigration matters, with a focus on humanitarian relief, including asylum, special immigrant juvenile petitions, and relief for survivors of violence and trafficking. Marin has a particular interest in the intersection of criminal and immigration law and has engaged in federal litigation on detainee rights. Marin speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and Cape Verdean Creole. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sao Nicolau, Cape Verde, and in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Before coming to the Justice Center, Marin worked as a law clerk for the Federal District Court of Minnesota. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis.

Meagan Antonellis is a staff Attorney on the immigration team at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Her practice involves direct representation of clients to address a wide array of immigration matters, as well as various community education and impact advocacy endeavors affecting immigrant populations. Previously, she has worked as a student Attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services, the Immigration Impact Unit at CPCS, and various other immigrant advocacy organizations. Meagan received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and her B.A. in International Relations from Boston University.

Mithra Reddy is an immigration Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Her role includes direct representation, community education, and impact advocacy. Prior to joining SCCLS, she interned at the Victim Rights Law Center and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, where she provided legal advocacy to survivors of sexual and domestic violence. She is originally from Illinois and received her BA in Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.

Sedri-Ann Murray is an Immigration Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Her role includes direct representation, community education, and impact advocacy.

Dwayne Franklin is an Immigration Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. His role includes direct representation, community education, and impact advocacy.

Amanda Hesse is a Staff Attorney at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts. Her practice involves advising and representing elderly clients on a variety of civil legal matters, including those related to housing and public benefits. Prior to joining the organization, she worked as an attorney in the Insurance & Financial Services Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and was a law clerk in the Massachusetts Superior Court. Ms. Hesse received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law and her B.A. in Law & Society and Public Communication from American University.

Sovannary Sok is a Legal Secretary at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts.