Janice L. Ta, President
Janice L. Ta is a 3L at Yale Law School and a 2007 Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation Fellow. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.A. in Art History and B.S. in Symbolic Systems, with a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. She became actively involved with disability rights while she was an undergraduate, directing the Stanford Disability Speaker's Bureau to raise awareness of disability access issues on campus. After college, she spent three years at a start-up in the San Francisco Bay Area before joining the American Association of People with Disabilities as the Program Assistant and interim National Coordinator for Disability Mentoring Day. Janice was born on a Vietnamese refugee camp in Pulau Bidong, Malaysia where she contracted polio as an infant.
Trevor Finneman, Vice President
Trevor Finneman is a native of central California and is currently a third-year law student at the University of California at Los Angeles. He serves as Vice-President of the National Association of Law Students with Disabilities. At UCLA, Trevor also serves as Executive Editor of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy and is Chair of the UCLA Disability Law Society. He is also involved with the Disability Rights Legal Center in Los Angeles. Trevor graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with highest honors and distinction in general scholarship while earning degrees in Political Science and Religious Studies. He has a severe bilateral hearing loss.
Michael Nunez, Chief Financial Officer
Michael earned his BA in economics from Stanford University and is currently a 2L at Stanford Law School. As a law student, Michael is an Associate Editor with the Stanford Law and Policy Review, an executive board member of Stanford's chapter of the American Constitution Society, and a volunteer with Stanford's Equality Pro Bono program. Originally from Southern California, Michael has accumulated much of his professional experience in Washington DC working in government and at civil rights advocacy organizations.
Shayla Parker, Chief Information Officer
Shayla is a 3L at Georgetown University Law Center, where she is on the staff of the Georgetown Law Journal and an Executive Editor of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure. Before law school, she worked in civil rights and low-income disaster relief. She graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with a B.A. in English and Political Science. Shayla has Leber's, a retinal disorder resulting in near total blindness.
Anna Scholin, Membership Director
Anna Scholin is a 2L at Stanford University, where she is co-case
management chair of the Social Security & Disability Pro Bono Project.
She worked her 1L summer with mostly homeless clients, developing
their disability claims and eventually representing 3 at full
hearings. Anna has a BA from the University of Chicago in Visual Art,
graduating Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors. Anna joined the
disability community in January of her 1L year when she experienced
sudden onset of severe rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder
that attacks the joints.
Stephanie Enyart, Board Liaison
Stephanie Enyart was Co-Chair of the Steering Committee that launched the National Association of Law Students with Disabilities (NALSWD) and served as the first president of the organization. Today, she serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of NALSWD and is organizing the launch of the first national organization for lawyers with disabilities. She is serving as a Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. She recently won the Paul J. Hearne award given to emerging disability rights leaders. She will begin a Skadden fellowship this fall with Disability Rights Advocates. Stephanie graduated from UCLA School of Law in December 2008, where she was enrolled in the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. At UCLA, she was an Editor-In-Chief of Recent Developments for the Women's Law Journal, Chair of the Disability Law Society, and was elected by the student body to UCLA's Student Bar Association where she served as the UCLA American Bar Association representative. During law school, Stephanie worked for California's Protection and Advocacy Inc. in Los Angeles, in the Civil Rights Litigation Project for the Disability Rights Legal Center, and at Disability Rights Advocates. She graduated from Stanford University in 1999 with a B.A. in English and a secondary major in Feminist Studies. Stephanie has a form of macular degeneration called Stargardts and grew up in Nipomo, California.