Organizations Filed Purposes:
For over 50 years, Western Center on Law and Poverty (WCLP) has led the fight in the courts, counties and capital to secure housing, health care and a strong safety net for low-income Californians by improving and transforming the public policy systems that touch their lives.
Leading the fight to secure housing, healthcare and a strong safety net for low-income Californians.
Housing: WCLP enforces and expands Californians' rights to: easily find and move into affordable housing; maintain their existing low-income housing; have stable housing and avoid homelessness; and live in inclusive and equitable communities. WCLP focuses on improving the rights of low-income renters, promoting equitable land use policies, preventing displacement, furthering fair housing, and ensuring that there is adequate production of new affordable housing.
Public Benefits and Economic Justice: WCLP works to expand access to jobs, take home income and opportunity for the poorest Californians; reduce the criminalization of poverty and racial bias in anti-poverty programs, public institutions, work environments, and financial services; ensure that the public safety net is actually available when needed; guarantee that people struggling to gain independence from welfare actually receive the supportive services the law affords them; and ensure that the voice of poor people is heard in the policy debates that affect their lives.
Health Care: WCLP works on behalf of low-income Californians to defend health care reform; create new state based health care programs; extend coverage to the uninsured; strengthen county indigent health care programs; expand mental health services; stop illegal debt collection practices; and ensure appropriate consumer protections when accessing health care services.Among our 2019 accomplishments are stopping LA County's illegal practice that resulted in 30,000 Medi-Cal recipients losing coverage; preserving millions of dollars in hospital charity care services in Fresno and LA; and protecting CA's Medi-Cal expansion for hundreds of thousands of low-income adults against threatened backdoor federal cuts.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Paul Tepper | Exec. Dir./President | 40 | $183,619 |
| Richard Rothschild | Director of Litigation | 40 | $147,281 |
| Michael Herald | Director of Policy Advocacy | 40 | $142,720 |
| Jennifer Flory | Policy Advocate | 40 | $117,845 |
| Stephanie Surabian | Finance & Admin Director | 40 | $117,270 |
| Linda Nguy | Policy Advocate | 40 | $115,031 |
| David Zifkin | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Stephanie Yonekura | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jennifer Wolch | Director (End 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Jeremy Williams | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Dale Walls | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Rodrigo Virseda | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Fred Von Lohmann | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lois D Thompson | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Andrew J Aj Thomas | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lois M Takahashi | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Howard J Steinberg | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Stephen Sorensen | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Patrick J Somers | Director (Start 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Steven G Sklaver | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Shipley | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Rey M Rodriguez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Sylvia Rivera | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Alison L Plessman | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Adam Paris | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kelley S Olah | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jessica L Lunney | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Thomas Loran Iii | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Shira Liu | Director (Start 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Aaron Lewis | Director (End 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Susan K Leader | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Allen Lanstra | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Raymond B Kim | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Olivia Kim | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Moe Keshavarzi | Director (End 3/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Mike Hostettler | Director (End 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Joshua Hamilton | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Paul Hall | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jonathan Gottlieb | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Christine Goodman | Director (Start 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| David E Fink | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Diana Feinstein | Director (Start 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Ruben Escalante | Director (6/19 - 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Lorraine Echavarria | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Daralyn Durie | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kirk D Dillman | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Grant A Davis-Denny | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mark Cramer | Director (End 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Corinna Cherian | Director (Start 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Margaret Carter | Director | 1 | $0 |
| David Carpenter | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Shane Brun | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Rachel Brass | Director (End 12/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Alex Beroukhim | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeremy D Matz | Board Secretary/Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| David Elson | Board Co-Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Grace Carter | Board Co-Chair | 1 | $0 |
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