• Staff
• Board

• Karen A. Newton Cole Executive Director
• Tyra Aikens Assistant to the Director of Finance and Administration
• Kate Arnold Housing, Paralegal/Investigator
• Angie Bailey Intake Specialist
• Cecilia Barber Eviction Prevention Project Coordinator
• John K. Blake Managing Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Kiara Breault Housing, Paralegal/Investigator
• Ray Crichton Intake Specialist
• Nicole Davies Development Coordinator
• Paige Dennis HCPI Project Coordinator
• Khari A. Edwards Staff Attorney, Housing Unit - Family Preservation Project
• Itta Englander Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Kathy Hollins Fields Director of Finance and Administration
• Elizabeth Floyd Supervising Attorney, Housing Cooperative Preservation Initiative
• Ashley Graham-Watanabe Managing Attorney, Brief Services Unit and Director of Compliance
• Janice Johnson Hunter Senior Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Sheryl Kay Staff Attorney, Family Law Practice
• Kevin Kearns Paralegal, Economic Security Unit
• Kimberly Kelly Intake Specialist
• Deborah Levine Senior Staff Attorney, Brief Services Unit
• Hector Martinez Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Adam Marshall Managing Attorney, Housing Law
• Lorna McCandless-Moss Compliance and Operations Coordinator
• Joe McLean Staff Attorney, Housing and Economic Security Units
• Kalen Nehler Staff Attorney, Housing & Economic Security Units
• Maria O'Sullivan Howard C. Westwood Fellow
• Nicholas Patten Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Nadiyah Peacock Intake Specialist
• Mary-Elizabeth Pratt Executive Assistant
• Tomás Rivera Staff Attorney, Family Law and Brief Services Unit
• Claudia Roman Paralegal, Economic Security Unit
• Kate Schnell Staff Attorney, Brief Services and Housing Units
• Philip Scholz Brief Services Unit, Paralegal
• Laquita Stagg Tenant Empowerment Specialist
• Mark Trumbore Senior Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Cassidy Waskowicz Director of Development
• Rachel Weiss Supervising Attorney, Housing Unit
• Mary William Senior Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Raquel Wollaston Staff Attorney, Family Law Unit

Raquel WollastonStaff Attorney, Family Law Unit

Raquel joined Neighborhood Legal Services Program in March 2023. She is a Staff Attorney in NLSP’s Family Law Unit.

Raquel graduated Cum Laude from Western Michigan-Cooley School of Law. She received her LL.M in Civil Rights and Public Interest from Howard University School of Law. While in law school, Raquel was a member of the Law Review, Black Law Student Association, and Estate Planning Clinic. She also gained experience as a Staff Attorney representing relative caregivers of at-risk children in the District of Columbia.

Prior to law school, Raquel received her B.A. from Howard University, where she majored in Political Science and Legal Communications. Raquel can be reached by phone at 202-800-2155, or via email at rwollaston@nlsp.org.