Organizations Filed Purposes:
Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity. We spur change through collaboration with grassroots groups representing low-income communities, people of color and immigrants, combined with strategic policy reform, media advocacy and litigation, "making rights real" across California since 1971.
Education Equity: Public Advocates' Education Equity team works to ensure that all students have equal access to quality K-12 and postsecondary education regardless of where they live, the color of their skin, their language, or their immigration status. In fiscal year 2018-19, we settled a complaint on behalf of parents and students with the West Contra Costa Unified School District that resulted in the release of key data on student performance, and we filed a complaint against the Los Angeles Unified School district to stop improper accounting and reporting practices involving more than $2 billion that the district receives to support English learners, low-income students, and foster youth. (Continued at Schedule O)
Metropolitan Equity: Public Advocates' Metropolitan Equity Team advocates for equitable development, affordable housing, protections from unjust evictions and displacement, increased local transit service, and policies that reduce the impacts of climate change and pollution on low-income residents and communities of color. In fiscal year 2018-19, we helped win a successful settlement in a case brought on behalf of Spanish-speaking and disabled tenants in Los Angeles' Koreatown who had been subject to discrimination and harassment in a concerted effort to remove them from buildings owned by a corporate landlord. (Continued at Schedule O)
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 |
|---|
| Guillermo Mayer President | CEO | 37.5 | $161,727 |
| John Affeldt | Managing Attorney | 37.5 | $157,967 |
| Richard Marcantonio | Managing Attorney | 37.5 | $155,058 |
| Debi Harris | Development Dir. | 37.5 | $133,038 |
| Sumi Paik Finance Admin | Director | 34.5 | $129,158 |
| Elizabeth Guillen Dir Of | Comm/Legi. Affairs | 37.5 | $121,816 |
| Jasmine Singh | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Sergio Garcia | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kendra Fox-Davis | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Lee Mcenany Caraher | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Anita D Stearns Mayo | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Dr Dolores Jimenez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Martin Glick | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Barbara J Chisholm | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Rohit Singla Treasurer | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Alina Ball Exec Secr | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Robert Olson Vice Chair | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Fred Alvarez Chair | Director | 2 | $0 |
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