Leadership & Staff

Crissy Anderson, J.D. is the Equity and Access Program supervisor at the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). The Equity and Access Program, which sits under the AOC’s Office of Court Innovation, works to increase access to the courts for unrepresented parties and supports courts in serving the needs of these litigants, particularly those from historically marginalized communities. Crissy has decades of experience in the legal field, as a legal aid attorney specializing in family law and domestic violence, and through policy and programmatic support for the Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission and the Superior Court Judges’ Association. Through her work at the Administrative Office of the Courts she provides strategic, legislative, and programmatic support for judicial branch priorities and initiatives. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University and a law degree from Gonzaga University School of Law.

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Citlalli is a dedicated advocate committed to expanding access to justice for immigrant, Latine, and BIPOC communities. Early in her career, Citlalli’s lived experiences led her to advocate for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, with a focus on addressing systemic barriers within legal systems.

Her work has since expanded into immigration legal services, where she supports program development, grant coordination, and organizational compliance to strengthen legal services for immigrant and refugee communities. Her background in survivor advocacy continues to shape her commitment to racial equity, accessible legal services, and systems change.

As a lived-experience board member, Citlalli brings both professional expertise and personal perspective to her work. She is currently completing DOJ accreditation training with the goal of providing direct immigration legal services and helping create more equitable pathways to justice.

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Mike serves as the Civil Rights Enforcement Manager at the Seattle Office for Civil Rights (SOCR) and is responsible for enforcing Seattle’s civil rights and anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing, public accommodations, and contracting. Under his leadership, the Enforcement Division’s work has shifted to a more preventative and proactive community-centered approach to civil rights enforcement by providing training and technical assistance, conducting fair housing and employment testing, offering restorative mediation, engaging in outreach and public engagement, case investigations, and coordinating the City’s Title VI Program. Mike and his team’s accomplishments include implementing Seattle’s first labor standard laws (which later became the Office of Labor Standards); providing fair chance employment and housing protections for individuals with criminal history; and establishing new public accommodation protections such as the all-gender restroom, ban on conversion therapy to minors, and closed captioning requirements. Before joining SOCR, Mike was an investigator for the Washington State Human Rights Commission.

As a certified mediator with the Washington Mediation Association, Mike mediates for the Seattle Federal Executive Board, Interlocal King County Dispute Resolution Program and serves on the City of Seattle Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Board. Mike is a member of the citywide Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) Core Team 4 and former RSJI Change Team member, which addresses racial equity in city government. Mike received his Juris Doctorate (J.D.) degree from Gonzaga University School of Law and his degree on Master’s in Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Gonzaga University in 2006.

Born in Moscow, Idaho, Mike’s father is an immigrant from Jamaica and mother a second-generation Chinese American. Mike enjoys travelling, food, learning about cultures, exercising, practicing mindfulness, spending time with family, and reading. Mike lives with his partner, Germán Gornalusse and with their Chow-Golden Retriever mix Osito on Beacon Hill in Seattle, Washington.

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Sergio C. Flores, born in Mexico and raised in Seattle, began his academic journey at Seattle Central Community College, where his studies inspired him to pursue higher education in law and policy. He went on to earn a BA in Political Science from Seattle University and a law degree from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. As a city prosecutor for over eight years, Sergio champions accountability, compassion, and equity. Passionate about social justice, he played a key role in founding Auburn Community Court. Sergio also serves as a judge pro tempore in Municipal and District Courts. Outside of work, he enjoys reading, running, traveling, and spending time with his husband, friends, and dog.

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Nicholas Larson serves as the managing partner of Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney’s (MPBF) Seattle office. He represents businesses, individuals, government agencies, and nonprofits in all phases of civil litigation in both Washington and California. His practice focuses on professional liability, white collar, corporate, real estate, and insurance litigation, as well as government investigations. He represents and advises professionals, executives, and businesses in internal investigations and civil and criminal proceedings involving State and Federal governmental agencies. His diverse practice also includes crisis-management, nonprofit, construction, employment, IP, tax, and appellate work. Prior to his appointed to serve on the ATJ Board, Nick served for three years as the Co-Chair of the Washington State Bar Association’s Pro Bono and Public Service Committee (PBPSC). During that time, Nick worked with the PBPSC to help change the dues structure for Emeritus status attorneys in Washington State, creating greater Access to Justice by widening the number of attorneys able to perform Pro Bono work in Washington. Prior to returning home to Seattle, Nick served as the Co-Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco Barrister’s Pro Bono Committee. Before his legal career, Nick served as a Senior Policy Analyst for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he led a team of policy analysts evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of multiple government programs to help improve the performance and accountability of the U.S. government. During law school, he was a judicial extern for the Honorable William H. Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Nick obtained his law degree through the evening program at the University of San Francisco, and he has both an MA and BA from Stanford University in Psychology and Public Policy. When he is not working, Nick spends his time volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club and the YMCA as a youth basketball coach, serving as the legal chair for his local community association, and enjoying the moment with his wife and three children.

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Lesly Díaz-Pérez is a Washington-licensed Limited License Legal Technician (LLLT) practicing family law and the founder of Familias Fuertes | Strong Families Legal Technician, LLC, a bilingual legal services practice serving communities across Washington. Her work focuses on supporting unrepresented litigants in family law matters, with particular attention to language access, plain-language communication, and procedural barriers that disproportionately impact marginalized communities.

Lesly brings a practitioner and community-informed perspective to access-to-justice issues, informed by her direct work with self-represented parties navigating court systems without clear guidance or meaningful language access. She serves on the Access to Justice Board to help advance equitable, accessible, and community-centered approaches within Washington’s civil legal system.

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Maya Manus (she/they) is an attorney at Lavender Rights Project, which a Black Trans feminist organization committed to dismantling oppressive systems that disproportionately harm Black communities. Maya assists with the vision towards decriminalization by providing Know Your Rights trainings and Legal Clinics to the community, while assisting in impact litigation for systemic change. She believes that as an attorney, she is an advocate to those least likely to interact with the legal system, understanding the historic and present harms the legal system inflicts on those communities. Maya is a Washington native and went to undergrad at Washington State University and received their legal education from Seattle University School of Law. While in law school, Maya co-created the Advocacy and Community Engagement department at the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, advocating for systemic changes towards police brutality, voting rights and state benefits. Maya believes that a just world exists and we all must work towards creating a world we have never witnessed before. Outside of their work, Maya enjoys making and eating delicious food, staying active through movement, reading, and spending time with her dog Yogi.

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Yvette Perrantes (Suquamish/Duwamish & Quinault) is a proud descendant of Chief Seattle. Her life and work are shaped by the resilience of her grandmother, a residential school survivor, and her mother, who was forcibly removed from her home on the Tulalip Reservation as part of the Indian Adoption Era. Having experienced chronic homelessness and cultural displacement in her own youth, Yvette is deeply committed to reclaiming her heritage and uplifting Indigenous ways of life.

Yvette serves as the Communications and Grants Manager with Mother Nation, a Seattle-based Native-led nonprofit supporting Indigenous women and families. Her work is grounded in community and guided by the principles of self-determination, cultural preservation, and re-Indigenizing systems of care. She brings extensive experience in advocacy, housing and homelessness policy, and culturally responsive communications. Yvette is passionate about ensuring that the lived experiences, wisdom, and leadership of Indigenous people are centered in decision-making spaces, particularly within efforts to advance equity and access to justice.

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J. Mercedes Riggs is the Asylum Program Managing Attorney for SOAR Immigration Legal Services, a program of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. Prior to her work at SOAR, she was a sole practitioner and she was of counsel for Sound Immigration. Mercedes is a member of the board of Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program. Mercedes is also currently a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) asylum committee. She is past co-chair of the Congressional/Advocacy Committee for the Washington AILA chapter. Ms. Riggs received her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Stanford University and her JD from Santa Clara University.

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Carla Sullivan has worked at the Office of Administrative Hearings since 2018 and is currently serving as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator and member of the Equity and Access Team. She lives and works in Tacoma. Carla is a paralegal and earned her BA at Evergreen State College in Tacoma.

Prior to OAH, Carla served as a litigation paralegal at law firm specializing in employment law. She also worked supporting attorneys and working with clients at Tacoma Pierce County Volunteer Legal Services. She enjoys working with people who have experienced barriers accessing the justice system.

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Diana Singleton (she/her) is the Chief Equity and Justice Officer at the Washington State Bar Association, where she provides support and leadership for the Washington State Bar Association’s work to advance equity and justice. She leads the Equity and Justice Department which manages the WSBA’s public service and diversity, equity and inclusion work and provides support and partnership to the Washington State Access to Justice Board, the Council on Public Defense, the WSBA Diversity Committee, the WSBA Pro Bono and Public Service Committee, the WSBA Equity and Disparity Workgroup and the Minority Bar Association leaders. She previously served as the Director of Seattle University School of Law’s Access to Justice Institute (ATJI) which serves as a bridge between the law school and larger equal justice community. Prior to joining ATJI, Diana was an attorney with the Northwest Justice Project for almost ten years, practicing in the areas of consumer, family, low-wage worker, and public benefits law. Diana serves on the Board of Communities Rise which offers transactional pro bono assistance to nonprofit organizations and low-income small business owners, and JustLead Washington which offers capacity-building services centered on leadership development, race equity and collaboration. She is a proud alumna of Seattle University School of Law, Westmont College, and the Washington Equal Justice Community Leadership Academy.

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Bonnie (she/her) is the Equity and Justice Manager at the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA), where she helps advance the work of the Washington Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Board and WSBA’s Council on Public Defense. In this role, she leads projects and events that bring people together across systems to strengthen equity and access to justice. Her work includes project management, event and meeting production, volunteer engagement, strategic planning, and program oversight.

Bonnie is passionate about racial and social justice and works to center the leadership and wisdom of people most impacted by systemic inequities. She earned her Master of Public Administration from Seattle University, holds the Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential, and completed the University of Washington’s Project Management Certification program and JustLead Washington’s Leadership Academy. Bonnie also serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Perinatal Support of Washington, a statewide nonprofit dedicated to promoting perinatal mental health and supporting families and communities across the state.

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