• Staff
• Board

• Anne Ford (Co-Chairperson) Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
• Wilson D. Mudge. Esq. (Co-Chairperson) Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP
• Reginald Black Community Volunteer
• Maureen F. Browne Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
• Ameera Farrell Community Volunteer
• Kira Ford Community Volunteer
• Maryam Hatcher Senior Counsel, Corporate Sustainability at Mars, Inc.
• Vanessa Hayes Community Volunteer
• Astor Heaven, Esq. Partner, Crowell & Moring
• Eric Humes (Lay Director) Social Entrepreneur
• Samuel C. Kaplan Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner
• Kevin Malone Community Volunteer
• Sara B. Rearden, Esq. (Secretary) Attorney and Certified Mediator
• Paula D. Scott, Esq. Attorney
• Roderick E. Thompson, Esq. Principal, Roderick Thompson Law Group, PLLC
• April Williams, Esq. Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
• Tyra Williams Matthews, Esq. Attorney, United States Department of Homeland Security
• Cheryl L. Ziegler, Esq. (Vice-Chair) Supervisory Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Melissa F. Zappala, Esq. (Treasurer) Attorney

Melissa F. Zappala, Esq. (Treasurer)Attorney

Melissa is a partner at Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP. Melissa focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, including antitrust, class actions, and business tort disputes, as well as conducting internal investigations. Over the last fifteen years, she has been involved a number of high profile matters, including high stakes trial teams involving major technology companies. She was recognized by the National Law Journal in 2015 as one of the DC area’s top 40 lawyers under 40, and has been featured in articles published in the ABA Journal and the American Lawyer.