Senior Associate District Attorney and Policy Chief, Alameda County District Attorney's Office (and Founding Director of BALI). Cynthia Chandler is an acclaimed attorney, change agent, and social entrepreneur with demonstrated success tackling some of the most pressing social issues of our time. Her innovations include launching the first organization advancing the rights of HIV+ women in prison; creating the compassionate release process and statutory structure in California and nationally allowing for the safe release from prison of terminally ill and incapacitated people; co-founding the Eviction Defense Center in Oakland, CA; and co-founding Critical Resistance and Justice Now, early prison abolitionist organizations influencing the Black Lives Matter network. She has an extensive record of coaching to success BIPOC nonprofit and corporate founders and regularly is brought in as a change manager for organizations seeking significant reorganization, growth, or culture shift. She runs monthly BALI coaching groups on branding and delegation.

Mediator, ADR Services. Geri Green, Esq. is a full-time mediator and discovery referee. She has successfully mediated and presided over nearly 1,000 disputes in the areas of Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Business, Employment, Real Estate, Landlord-Tenant, Insurance Coverage, Civil Rights & Disability Rights, Police Misconduct, Probate, and Elder Abuse. Geri runs a monthly BALI Alternative Dispute Resolution coaching group.

Founder and Principal, Covington May Law P.C. and Family Wealth Manager. R. Terese May, is a licensed attorney with the California State Bar. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Finance) from California State University East Bay and a Juris Doctor from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She holds the Charter Financial Consultant® (ChFC®) designation from the American College of Financial Services and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), holding Series 7, Series 63, and Series 65 licenses, among others. Becoming an attorney was not a casual decision for Terese. After two decades of helping client’s amass wealth, her only professional frustration was the inability to protect their autonomy, as they aged. It was disheartening to watch how easily a client’s wishes could be completely unacknowledged, even in moments of clarity, once it was evident they had entered a state of decline. Terese runs BALI's Trust and Estates Study Group.

Founder and Principal, Law Office of John Douglas Moore. John Moore is a legal stragegist with over 40 years of experience in civil litigation and wills and trust litigation. He also enjoys helping small businesses grow the next step to medium-size and has brought this passion to his work supporting BALI law business founders grow their firms. In addition to his litigation work, John has special expertise in recycling and discard management, and he has been at the forefront of the recycling and sustainability movement internationally. John runs BALI's Civil Litigation Study Group and provides litigation coaching to the community.

Founder and Principal, Law Office of Cinthya Tyler. Cynthia Tyler is BALI attorney with over 8 years of experience in immigration law, including removal defense and asylum. She focuses her practice primarily on cases for immigrant youth and families. She also enjoys working with other attorneys to navigate their cases and come up with strategies to win. Cynthia provides coaching in immigration law and small business development.

Founder and Principal, E-Justice Project, APC. Ms. Phillips is a California licensed attorney. Ms. Phillips earned her law degree from American Heritage University of Southern California, School of Law.  

She established her legal careerinterning for California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), an organization committed to the fight for justice and individual rights. At CRLA, Ms. Phillips participated in civil rights legal advocacy, which included litigating school to prison pipeline matters, and working with the Housing Authority of the County of Kern to establish a legally compliant Language Access Plan.

After her time at CRL, Ms. Phillips went to work as an attorney for one of California’s largest plaintiff side labor and employment law firms - zealously advocating for the rights of employees. Ms. Phillips has represented hundreds of clients in claims ranging from wage and hour issues, wrongful termination and retaliation, sexual harassment, discrimination, FMLA/ADA violations, and other employment related disputes.

Most recently, Ms. Phillips launched her own labor and employment law firm, E-Justice Project, APC in 2020. EJP is committed to providing advocacy for California workers, particularly those within the justice gap.