PRESIDENT

Christina Cheung is a partner with Allred, Maroko & Goldberg. Ms. Cheung graduated from Georgetown University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service. She later studied at the UCLA School of Law under Professor Vicki Schultz, a renowned scholar in employment discrimination and sexual harassment law. Ms. Cheung joined Allred, Maroko & Goldberg in September of 2011 and left in 2015 to work at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s Employment Litigation Section in Washington, D.C. Since returning to Allred, Maroko & Goldberg in January of 2016, Ms. Cheung, who is licensed to practice in California and New York, splits her time working between Allred, Maroko & Goldberg’s Los Angeles and New York offices. Her practice focuses on representing childhood victims of sexual assault as well as representing employees for harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination.

VICE PRESIDENT

Mr. Alexander is a partner at Alexander, Morrison + Fehr in Los Angeles. He prosecutes civil rights claims focusing on employment law in both State and Federal Court and has tried over forty cases to verdict. Mr. Alexander has won six- and seven-figure judgments for claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation based on gender, race, age, sex, sexual orientation and disability. He has been consistently recognized as a Top 75 in California Labor and Employment Lawyers, Super Lawyers, ABOTA and Los Angeles’ Best Lawyers. He is a former Board member of the California Employment Lawyers Association, and served as CELA's chair from 2013-2015. Mr. Alexander holds degrees from Southwestern University School of Law and the University of California, Los Angeles, in English and Political Science.

Navruz Avloni is the founder of Avloni Law. She is a committed attorney and advocate who fights vigorously for the rights of workers. She brings her innovative problem-solving skills, work ethic, and strong ability to advocate to every matter she handles. She has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Northern California Rising Star, National Advocates: 40 Under 40 and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. She has served on the California Employment Lawyers Association’s Diversity Committee since 2014, and is an active Advisor at Empower Work. Mrs. Avloni received a Juris Doctorate Degree from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall), and a Bachelors in Rhetoric, Peace-Conflict Studies and Political Economy from University of California, Berkeley.

Ms. Dai is a partner at Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP, a plaintiff-side law firm located in the Greater Los Angeles area, where she specializes in employment, wage and hour, and civil rights law, with a focus on class actions and complex litigation. She has fought to protect and vindicate the rights of individuals her entire career, in both state and federal court, and in all stages of litigation. For the years 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2023, Ms. Dai has been selected as Lawyer of the Year in Southern California by Best Lawyers for Litigation - Labor and Employment (Pasadena). In 2018, she was also selected as Lawyer of the Year in Southern California by Best Lawyers for Employment Law – Individuals (Pasadena). In addition, Ms. Dai has been named to the Top 50: 2023 Women Southern California Super Lawyers List. In 2022, she was again selected as one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers and one of The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Ms. Dai has been named to the Southern California Super Lawyers® list as a Rising Star or Super Lawyer each year since 2005, and she has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2012. Ms. Dai oversees the Employment Rights Clinic at Loyola Law School, a joint retaliation complaint investigation program with the State of California Labor Commissioner’s Office. She also serves on the Board of the California Employment Lawyers Association, as Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, and on the Executive Advisory Council of Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Southern California. Ms. Dai is a graduate of UC Berkeley, and she received her law degree from USC Gould School of Law in 1999.

David Duchrow has represented employees and unions for over 40 years. He served on the CELA Board from 2002–2013, including a term as Chair from 2007–2009 and Treasurer from 2009–2013. While Chair of CELA he and CELA Administrator Christina Krasomil created FAIR, and he served as its Chair from 2011–2013. As a member, and later Chair, of CELA’s Amicus Committee, he briefed and argued cases before the California Supreme Court for over 20 years, and oversaw other amicus activities for CELA. He was appointed to the State Bar of California Labor & Employment Law Section Executive Committee from 2002–2008. His practice includes individual and class actions and appeals in state and federal courts. He has been appointed as lead counsel in several wage and hour class actions. He is known for his expertise in public sector employment matters. He also serves as a mediator, and as an expert witness in employment matters. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various legal subjects. He has been selected as a California "SuperLawyer" in Plaintiff's Employment Litigation since 2007. His firm is Law Office of David J. Duchrow, in Los Angeles, California.

Toni Jaramilla believes in creating positive social change through dedicated and compassionate advocacy for the rights of workers. Her firm is Toni Jaramilla, APLC in Los Angeles, California. Since 1994, she has been practicing exclusively employment law, and has litigated hundreds of cases of discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, and unpaid wages resulting in millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts. She has taken numerous cases to trial in both state and federal courts as well as in arbitration. She has successfully argued before the California Court of Appeals. Her employment law civil rights practice has expanded to 1983 Civil Rights litigation on behalf of victims of racial profiling, police excessive force and shootings. Ms. Jaramilla was selected to join the Executive Board of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) in 2000 and later served as CELA Chair. Under her leadership, she inspired ethnic and gender diversity initiatives, including forming CELA’s Diversity Outreach Committee in which she served as Chair, establishing an annual Diversity Luncheon and diversity speaker at CELA’s annual conferences, Diversity Leadership Summits and Employee Justice Fellowships. She served as President of FAIR from 2011-2013 and remains on its Executive Board. She also served as Chair of the California State Bar, Labor and Employment Law Section (2004-2005) after serving numerous years on its Executive Board. She served as President of the Philippine American Bar Association (1998) and is currently a lifetime member. ​She was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers in 2021. She has been selected as a Top 75 Labor and Employment Lawyers, by the Los Angeles Daily Journal since 2017 to the present, and recognized as a Super Lawyer (since 2005 to present) and honored as the Distinguished Advocate of the Year by the Philippine American Bar Association (2021).

Ms. Medina is a Founding Partner of Medina Orthwein LLP, a plaintiff side employment and civil rights law firm in Oakland. Ms. Medina secured the largest employment gender discrimination verdict in U.S. history in Velez v. Novartis in the Southern District of New York. In addition to the Novartis matter, Ms. Medina has managed all aspects of litigation from settlement, discovery, and trial in a variety of discrimination and wage and hour matters. Additionally, she successfully argued an appeal before the Sixth Circuit in a race discrimination suit. Before founding Medina Orthwein LLP in 2017, Ms. Medina was a managing partner at Sanford Heisler LLP, in San Francisco. She received her law degree from Yale Law School in 2006.

Supreeta Sampath is passionate about cultivating the next generation of public interest attorneys and ensuring diversity and equity within the profession. For over two decades, Ms. Sampath has devoted her legal career to serving the needs of those who have been denied justice. In 2011, Ms. Sampath founded The Sampath Law Firm where she exclusively represents employees in employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases. She has been named a Rising Star and Southern and Northern California Super Lawyer in the field of Labor and Employment every year since 2011 to present. Ms. Sampath is a former board member of the California Employment Lawyers (CELA) Association and has been a member of CELA’s Diversity Outreach Committee for several years, including serving as former Co-Chair of the Committee. Ms. Sampath has also served on the board of the South Asian Bar Association's Public Interest Foundation in Southern California and is a board member of Legal Aid at Work, a San Francisco based nonprofit organization dedicated to representing low wage workers throughout California. Ms. Sampath is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Schwartz is a civil rights attorney with his own firm, Bryan Schwartz Law, in Oakland, California. Mr. Schwartz's firm focuses on vindicating workers' rights in discrimination, whistleblower, wage and hour, and federal and public employee cases. Mr. Schwartz has helped tens of thousands of grateful clients get their careers back on track after employer wrongdoing derailed them, obtaining tens of millions in recovery for employees across the country in individual, collective, and class actions. A graduate of Berkeley Law, and of Cornell University, magna cum laude, Mr. Schwartz is a co-founder and past President of FAIR and a former member of the Executive Board of the California Employment Lawyers Association, whose members are more than 1300 employee-side advocates around the state. Mr. Schwartz, who is recognized annually by the Daily Journal, Super Lawyers, and other organizations as one of the top employment attorneys in California, is also the past Chair of the 7500-plus member Labor & Employment Section of the State Bar of California (now called the California Lawyers Association). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Legal Aid at Work and the Alameda Boys & Girls Club, among other organizations. Before founding his own firm in 2009, Mr. Schwartz led the San Francisco, California, office of Nichols Kaster, LLP. Previously, Mr. Schwartz practiced with the Washington, DC-based firm of Passman & Kaplan, PC, and clerked for the late Hon. Franklin Van Antwerpen, who served in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennyslvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.