**Now accepting applications for the 2021-2023 RCJ Board – Please email your resume to VLP Deputy Director, Gretchen Gonzalez to apply**
Rising Champions for Justice (RCJ) is a group of young professionals dedicated to furthering the VLP’s mission to provide free legal services to low income people while gaining valuable board experience and professional development. Members support VLP through organizing events, fundraisers, networking and professional development opportunities, and through volunteerism. In its first year, VLP welcomed 21 new members to the Rising Champions for Justice from a variety of firms and backgrounds.Rising Champions for Justice
Board Members
| Justin Andreozzi | Andreozzi Bluestein LLP |
| Marina Barci | Hurwitz & Fine, P.C. |
| Danielle Becker | Kaleida Health |
| Michael Cimasi | Cimasi Law |
| Jennifer Schamberger | Hodgson Russ |
| Erin Connare | Phillips Lytle LLP |
| Sarah Fenster | Fenster, Lewis & Good LLC |
| Christina Gullo | The Kantor Law Firm, PLLC |
| Nicole Grasso | Mattingly Cavagnaro LLP |
| Krista Grow Heffernan | Rich Products |
| Carly Hite | WDNY |
| Katie Ireland | Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC |
| Aalok Karambelkar | Kenney Shelton Liptak Nowak LLP |
| Arianna Kwiatowski | Barclay Damon LLP |
| Chloe Macdonald | Harter Secrest & Emery LLP |
| Eric Marriott | Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Monte PC |
| Rachel Mathews | Bairs Foundation |
| Brett Miller | Goldberg Segalla |
| Caitlin O’Neil | Connors, LLP |
| Stephen C. Papia | Bargnesi Britt PLLC |
| Maria Pendolino | Professional Voice Actor |
| Jessica Smith | ECMC |
| Larry Waters | Neighborhood Legal Services |
| Derek Wheeler | Andreozzi Bluestein LLP |
| Henry Zomerfeld | Hodgson Russ |
