• Staff
• Board

• Anne Ford (Co-Chairperson) Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
• Amy L. Neuhardt, Esq. (Co-Chairperson) Partner, Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP
• Maureen F. Browne Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
• Dorothy Capers Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Xylem
• Lyzka DeLaCruz, Esq. Managing Member, Bakker DeLaCruz LLC
• Kira Ford Community Volunteer
• Vanessa Hayes Community Volunteer
• Astor Heaven, Esq. Partner, Crowell & Moring
• Eric Humes (Lay Director) Social Entrepreneur
• Kevin Malone Community Volunteer
• Wilson D. Mudge. Esq. (Vice-Chair) Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP
• Sara B. Rearden, Esq. (Secretary) Attorney and Certified Mediator
• Paula D. Scott, Esq. Attorney
• April Williams, Esq. Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
• Tyra Williams Matthews, Esq. Attorney, United States Department of Homeland Security
• Melissa F. Zappala Attorney (Partner), Paul Weiss
• Cheryl L. Ziegler, Esq. (Treasurer) Supervisory Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Melissa F. ZappalaAttorney (Partner), Paul Weiss

Melissa is an attorney in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 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.