Annie Lee Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Lead overall strategic planning and implementation, support programmatic staff growth and development, identify internal opportunities to collaborate for maximum impact, ensure cross-team clarity. • Provide strategic direction, financial stability, and strategic communications for CAA’s local, state, and national policy agenda to advance language access, education equity, economic justice, immigrant rights, and community safety and justice. • Direct the production and release of policy analyses, reports, and recommendations. • Develop and advocate for public policy, in conjunction with staff, partners, and stakeholders in San Francisco, Sacramento, and nationally. • Represent the organization in key initiatives and collaborations, engage with key stakeholders, including community partners, elected and government officials, funders, major donors, and media.• Manage a team of five.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Co-led two California bills through the 2022 legislative process to become law by engaging with stakeholders, providing testimony during hearings, lobbying statewide elected representatives, and assisting a multi-team advocacy and communications campaign.• Supervised the creation of a voter guide for 2022 San Francisco and California ballot measures.• Assembled and moderated a candidates’ forum for San Francisco district attorney in 2022.• Coordinated the amicus strategy to assist the City and County of San Francisco defend against a lawsuit to prohibit immigrant parent voting in local school board elections.• Facilitated the creation of core internal policy documents, including updating the organization’s guiding principles and drafting policy position papers in each issue area.• Managed a team of three and developed a summer internship program.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Led two high priority compliance reviews on a school district’s use of restraint and seclusion on students with disabilities and on a school district’s response to notice of staff-on-student and student-on-student sexual assault. Selected by local management for these two district-wide investigations. Managing a team to fact find through extensive interviews, facilities inspections, and document review.• Selected for Pathways to Leadership (PTL), a Department-wide program that trains high potential staff for leadership. Chosen from applicants nationwide to be one of 20 in the 2020 PTL cohort to receive career coaching, mentorship, and leadership training.• Achieved exceptional results achieved in FY 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 for number of cases closed, speed of investigations, complexity of fact gathering and analysis, and thoroughness of monitoring.• Investigated complaints of discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, and disability, and analyzed whether there is sufficient evidence of a civil rights violation. Drafted findings of fact, legal analysis, and resolution agreements. Negotiated resolution agreements with recipients of federal funding and/or counsel and monitor compliance. Delivered trainings on federal civil rights laws under OCR jurisdiction. Mediated complaints between parties who request facilitated resolution.

• Fellowship sponsored by Oracle Corporation and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP• Implemented landmark foster youth education provisions of the Local Control Funding Formula through statewide policy efforts and collaboration with local educational agencies• Testified before the State Board of Education and California Collaborative for Educational Excellence on Local Control Funding Formula regulations that improve foster youth educational outcomes• Organized foster youth and collaborated with advocates to ensure Oakland Unified School District allocated funding for research-based actions and services for foster youth, including foster youth liaisons at middle and high schools, a Foster Youth Advisory Council, and an education teaming pilot for youth in care.• Direct representation of students in special education and school discipline matters• Litigation development, including complaint drafting, client counseling, and collaboration with private and non-profit co-counsel, on foster care, school discipline, and special education lawsuits

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Represented over one dozen low-income families in eviction, unemployment benefit, and wage & hour cases at every stage of litigation, including initial pleadings, discovery, summary judgment, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation• Led weekly eviction defense clinic to assist over 50 pro se tenants file Answer and Discovery• Trained undergraduate interns to assist with eviction defense clinic

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Researched origins of the SAT and selective admissions in higher education for Professor Guinier’s latest book, Tyranny of the Meritocracy• Draft chapters in Tyranny of the Meritocracy with fellow research assistants• Authored story about democratic intelligence from my experience teaching• Researched classroom diversity for an amicus brief for Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Tutored students enrolled in Civil Procedure• Evaluated student responses to assignment questions• Critiqued lessons and offered feedback, including methods to frame complex material and check for student understanding

Washington, Dc, Us

• Worked in the Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section• Implemented Title IX agreement with a state university• Assessed school district compliance with desegregation order• Analyzed documents regarding school district response to allegation of bullying based on national origin and religion• Drafted legal memorandum on potential legal avenues for school discipline litigation

Washington, D.C., Us

• Researched and drafted interoffice memoranda regarding municipal bankruptcies, Federal Arbitration Act subpoenas, and the Family and Medical Leave Act• Represented low-income tenant in eviction proceeding • Analyzed political belief of gender equality as basis for the asylum petition of a domestic violence survivor from Guatemala• Awarded an offer to join the firm

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Researched and drafted legal memoranda regarding housing allocation need and environmental impact reporting• Coalition-building with community groups on issues of affordable housing and transit access

• Co-wrote the United States History curriculum using a multicultural perspective with an emphasis on African American, Latino, Native American, and women's perspectives• Created project based assessments• Planned and executed a field trip for 80 students in the Lower East Side which included a walking tour of the traditional Jewish neighborhood and exhibits at the Museum of Chinese in America and the Italian American Museum• 99% student pass rate for the U.S. History Regents Examination mandated by New York State (63% of students scored over 90/100)• U.S. History classroom featured in the 2010 Department of Education holiday card and former Chancellor Joel Klein's farewell tour• Served as an adviser for a Class of 2013 cohort: arranged student-parent-adviser meetings, served as a liaison between the school and the student's family• Taught electives such as Magazine Elective, SAT Prep, and Freshman Year 101 (college readiness program)• Selected as a New York Region Semi-Finalist for the Teach For America Sue Lehmann Award for Excellence in Teaching.

J.D., Cum Laude

Mst, Education (Adolescent Social Studies)

Ba, Summa Cum Laude, With Distinction In Political Science

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