OUR STAFF
VPLC Staff
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Main Number: (804) 782-9430
Fax Number: (804) 649-0974
Email: info@vplc.org
ADMINISTRATION
James W. (Jay) Speer, Esq.
Chief Executive Officer
Carol Gordon
Chief Financial Officer
Louis Green
DEI Director
Ezra Halstead
Center for Outreach Director
Faith Kallman
Chief Operating Officer
Deepak Madala, Esq.
Director of the Center for Healthy Communities and ENROLL Virginia!
Christine E. Marra, Esq.
Director of Housing Advocacy
Toni Maxey
Director of Development
Connie Stevens
Communications Director
Susheela Varky, Esq.
Director of the Center for Family Advocacy and Legal Assistance for Victim-Immigrants of Domestic Abuse
Dana Wiggins
Director of the Center for Economic Justice
STAFF
Carmen Bingham
Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Project Coordinator
Blanca Bonilla
Health Insurance Navigator, Winchester
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Lois Caliri
Health Insurance Navigator, Roanoke
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Jessica Conley
Health Insurance Navigator, Southwest Virginia
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Naomi Y. Cordova
Legal Assistant for the Legal Assistance to Victim-Immigrants of Domestic Abuse (LA VIDA) program
Janae Craddock
Staff Attorney
Anna Daniszewski, Esq.
Family Defense Fellow
Family & Child Welfare
Cassie Edner, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Public Benefits; Director of Virginia Hunger Solutions
Steve Fischbach, Esq.
Litigation Director
Kajsa Foskey
Economic Justice Outreach Coordinator
Amanda Gago Silcox
Economic Justice Outreach Coordinator
Mara Guyer
Strategic Communications Manager
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Emily Hardy, Esq.
Deputy Director of the Center for Healthy Communities
Staff Attorney
Elder Law
Delaney Larkin
Program Coordinator
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Valerie L’Herrou, Esq.
Deputy Director of the Center for Family Advocacy
Staff Attorney
Family & Child Welfare
Sarah Morton
Staff Attorney
Senior Legal Helpline
Vanessa Paster, Esq.
Staff Attorney
LA VIDA (Legal Assistance for Victim-Immigrants of Domestic Abuse)
Amber Poron
Outreach Coordinator & Health Insurance Navigator
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Daniel Rezai
Housing Attorney
Victoria Richardson
Staff Attorney
Annika Schunn
Paralegal/Eviction Legal Helpline Coordinator
Housing Advocacy
Rhonda Seltz
Health Insurance Navigator, New River Valley
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Phil Storey, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Housing Advocacy
Dan Sullivan
Health Insurance Navigator, Shenandoah Valley
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Eleanor Sullivan
Medicaid Policy Analyst, Health Insurance Navigator
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