Adele Perera Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, California, United States

• General litigation with a pro bono focus on criminal defense.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Wrote trial transcript memo in preparation for life without parole appeal.

• Researched federal rules of evidence precedents for Professor Mai Linh Spencer.

Silicon Valley, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• Direct representation of an individual asylum applicant under attorney supervision.
• Researched country conditions and prepared a legal brief, declaration, and affidavits.

• Provided feedback on creating inclusive classrooms and incorporating racial justice into curriculums for Professor Lois Weithorn.

• Researched and wrote section of a “Know Your Rights” guidebook for sex workers.
• Provided Santa Rita Jail Hotline callers with legal information and documented reported conditions.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Researched and drafted memo in support of compassionate release motion.
• Interviewed incarcerated clients by phone and by an in-person prison visit.

Berkeley, California, United States

UC Berkeley

• Organized travel logistics, venue bookings, and caterers for over 25 events per semester ranging from 40-150 attendees.
• Edited annual newsletters, monthly newsletters, and managed sale of five textbooks

UC Berkeley

• Researched the effects of plants, fungi, and microbes on carbon flow.
• Investigated the colonization rates of bacteria and fungi on various mineral types incubated in soil microcosms.

UC Berkeley

• Project 1: Characterization of a calcium sensing protein kinase and its downstream transcription factor in Physcomitrella patens
• Successfully identified interaction between protein kinase and transcription factor via yeast two-hybrid
• Performed biolistic gene replacement to transform Physcomitrella patens with mutated versions of the proteins of interest -Performed bacterial transformation, plasmid extraction, and biolistics -Analyzed genotype via.
• Identified proteins of interest as putative positive regulators of drought stress response -Identified phenotype in overexpression transgenic lines as comparable to drought stress phenotype induced by phytohormone ABA.
• Successfully identified putative loss of function protoplast transformants -Performed gDNA & RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, primer & PCR design to determine the success of gene replacement
• Created a phylogenetic tree of the evolution of the proteins of interest in land plants -Used bioinformatics approach to create tree and analyzed for potential sites of divergence between Physcomitrella patens and crop.

Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA

• Researched the function of inflorescence meristem gene in Zea mays in relation to reproductive structure development
• DNA extractions, PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA sequencing, genomic sequence analysis.

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Co-President, Women of Color Collective; Refugee and Human Rights Clinic; Honor Society; Thurston Society

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Plant Molecular Biology