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 DNA extraction and sequencing -Analyzed mutation success and phenotype via Lumar stereoscope• 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 -Performed RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, and qPCR to observe changes in transcription level in known ABA response genes -Performed relative quantification to determine variation in gene expression between wild type and transgenic lines• 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 plants Project 2: Researching potassium channel transporter expression and function in Oryza sativa • Successfully cloned seven potassium transport genes -Performed primer design, cDNA synthesis, PCR, Gel extraction, BP and LR gateway cloning, and analysis of sequence via bioinformatics

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