Staff and Board
Senior Staff
Robert García, President and Counsel
Robert García is an attorney who engages, educates, and empowers communities to achieve equal access to public resources. He is the Executive Director, Counsel, and founder of The City Project in Los Angeles, California. Hispanic Business Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United States in 2008, "men and women who are changing the nation." He has extensive experience in public policy and legal advocacy, mediation, and litigation involving complex social justice, civil rights, human health, environmental, education, and criminal justice matters. He has influenced the investment of over $20 billion in underserved communities, working at the intersection of social justice, sustainable regional planning, and smart growth. He graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Stanford Law Review. As reported in the New York Times, “The City Project [is] working to broaden access to parks and open space for inner city children, and . . . to fight childhood obesity by guaranteeing that . . . students get enough physical education.” N. Y. Times, Nov. 12, 2007. Stanford Law School called him a "civil rights giant" and Stanford Magazine "an inspiration."
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Zoe Rawson, Staff Attorney
Zoe Rawson is a Staff Attorney with The City Project. She graduated from the City University of New York School of Law at Queens College, where she received a Project Equity Fellowship and a Family Law Scholarship. She has a Master's Degree in Social Work at Portland State University, and a Bachelor's Degree from University of Orgeon. Before joining The City Project, Ms. Rawson was an attorney with the Working People's Law Center. She spent many years working with youth and families as a social worker focused on youth justice issues.
Erica Flores Baltodano, Of Counsel
Erica Flores Baltodano graduated from UCLA and Boalt Hall School of Law. She previously served as Assistant Director and Counsel with The City Project at the Center for Law in the Public Interest.
Meagan Yellott, Program Director
Meagn Yellott graduated from Occidental College and the Midwest Academy of Organizing for Social Change. She previously worked with the Daily Journal. She is a student in the Landscape Architecture program at UCLA.
Christina Zaldaña, Program Assistant
Christina Zaldaña graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in Sociology and Mass Communications. She previously worked at the Rising Sun Energy Center directing the Youth Program.
Aubrey White, Research Fellow
Aubrey White is a graduate student at UC Davis studying for a Master's Degree in Urban Planning and Environmental Justice. She graduated from Occidental College with a degree in Religious Studies. She previously served as Program Director at The City Project.
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Chris Burrows
Chris Burrows is a young African-American attorney with the national law firm of Littler Mendelson in Los Angeles, CA. He received his J.D. from Howard University School of Law, where he was the Notes & Comments Editor of the Howard Law Journal. Chris has long worked with The City Project and is passionately dedicated to healthy, livable communities for all.
Lydia Camarillo
Lydia Camarillo, a successful businesswoman and political
consultant, served as Chief Executive Officer of the Democratic
National Convention Committee (DNCC) in 2000. She is Vice
President of the Southwest Voter Registration Education
Project (SVREP).
Robert García, President and Counsel
Virginia Keeny
Virginia Keeny is a 1988 graduate of Stanford Law School. She is currently a partner in the law firm of Hadsell & Stormer, Inc., in Pasadena, California. She is one of the fifty most influential women lawyers in California. From 1988-89 Ms. Keeny served as Law Clerk to the Honorable William A. Norris, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She was a Public Interest Fellow at Litt & Stormer and a Senior Trial Attorney at the EEOC prior to joining Hadsell & Stormer in 1993. At the EEOC, she was responsible for litigating several class actions against California employers, including one on behalf of female roustabouts against Shell Oil Company.
Robbie LaBelle
Robbie LaBelle has spearheaded Nike’s work to create new playing fields in underserved communities. He has worked with the City of Los Angeles to put Nike Grind futsal fields in the Glassell Park Rec Center and Lafayette Rec Center. He led the effort for the Nike Grind turf field at Ross Snyder Recreation Center in South L.A.
Robbie graduated from UCLA, where he was captain of the nationally ranked men’s soccer team. Robbie played on the USA U-20 national soccer team. He worked with The City Project, the Anahuak Youth Association, and others to help create the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield and El Rio de Los Angeles State Park at Taylor Yard.
Lyndon Parker
Lyndon Parker is Managing Director of the Los Angeles office of one the country's pre-eminent attorney search firms, and previously had been a Trial Attorney for the Chief Counsel of Internal Revenue, Assistant General Counsel for ARAMARK, before entering into the private sector. He is the author of the BNA Portfolio: Tax Liens: Priorities and Enforcement, is active in many community organizations, and is a former professional pianist, and is often called upon as an expert witness and consultant in matters relating to attorney compensation. Mr. Parker attended American University, New York Law School and the N.Y.U. Law School Graduate Tax Program.
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