Niels Frenzen is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School Of Law where he teaches immigration law and directs the Law School's Immigration Clinic. He is a member of the State Bars of California, Florida (inactive) and Iowa (inactive) and a member of the Law Society of England and Wales (practicing certificate not active). He has represented hundreds of asylum seekers and other immigrants and has litigated numerous lawsuits against the US government challenging the mistreatment of immigrants and asylum seekers. He has participated in human rights delegations on behalf of Amnesty International USA, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and other human rights organizations in Haiti, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, and the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. He has been an attorney since 1985 and is from Washington, DC.
Hector Aristizabal is a native Colombian, whose commitment to human rights work forced him to leave his country in 1989 due to death threats. In addition to PTV, Aristizabal currently takes part in The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, and The Colombia Peace Project. Aristizabal holds an MA degree in Psychology, as well as a degree for marriage and family therapy. He is also a theater director and actor. As an artist, he is the co-founder of CITYSCAPE, an Art Therapy program and works as a consultant for several organizations in the Los Angeles area as a member of Arts Tribe.
Andrew Atkin is a counsel in the law firm Rodriguez, Horii and Choi, LLP. Atkin engages in the general practice of law with emphasis on California State and local taxation and nonprofit corporations. Atkins, a graduate of the J.D. Emory University School of Law, is also Founder of the Andrew S. Atkin Charitable Foundation.
Veronica Balibrera is the Vice-President of Administration and Customer Services at Support Services of America, Inc. She oversees the company’s daily internal operations and is also responsible for management of all customer relations and staff productivity. Veronica joined PTV's board in 2010 and is grateful to be a part of an organization that mitigates the pain of thousands of victims across the globe and brings healing and hope into their lives.
Phyllis Glock Since 1987, Phyllis has been an employee of Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach. Glock spent thirteen years in the Accounting Operations organization. She is currently a Business Administrator for the Northrop Grumman Sector Staff, and has served as Treasurer of the Employee Charity Organization (ECHO) Board of Directors since 1999. In addition, Glock is the Secretary of Women’s Network Group, the Co-Captain of the Emergency Assistance Team for Executive Building E2, and is a business partner of the Partners in Education program at Dana Middle School.
Greg Good is Director of the Waste & Recycling Project at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). Prior to joining LAANE, Greg was an elementary and high school teacher in the Inglewood and Compton Unified School districts, teaching grades ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade English. After that, he served two years as Teach for America’s California recruitment director and five years as its Los Angeles executive director. Greg is also a former actor, writer and producer who has appeared in several films and produced and performed his own one-man show, Shaking in My Manhood at Hollywood’s Met Theatre in 2003. Outside of LAANE, he recently served as campaign manager for the successful LAUSD School Board campaign of Steve Zimmer. Greg received his undergraduate degree in history from Brown University and his J.D. from UCLA School of Law.
Adam Levine has been practicing law at O’Melveny & Meyers LLP’s Los Angeles office since 1999. He specializes in complex commercial litigation, and has spent extensive amount of time representing political asylum applicants before the Immigration Court on a pro-bono basis. Levine is a board member for the Program for Torture Victims, and volunteers with the Constitutional Rights Foundation to teach introductory constitutional law to 8th grade public schools. Levine is a 1992 graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and a 1998 graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Stella Maloyan is the Development Director at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). Stella joined LAANE in 2002 and leads the organization's private fundraising program. Stella has degrees in political science and advanced fundraising, and served as president of Stellar Strategies, a fundraising consulting firm, prior to joining LAANE. She was a past boardmember and is involved with the humanitarian organization Armenian General Benevolent Union, and now sits on the board of Program for Torture Victims. Stella is also the co-founder of Womens Investment Network. Fluent in English, Armenian and Farsi, Stella was born in the U.S., but grew up in Iran. She lives in Porter Ranch with her husband and two children.
Marc Williams. is a counsel in O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Securities Litigation Practice. In addition to securities work, Williams handles complex business competition litigation, including the representation of clients against claims of interference with contract and prospective economic advantage, unfair competition, unfair business practices, false advertising, and antitrust.
