Sally Kinoshita is the ILRC's Deputy Director based in San Francisco. In this role, she weaves together more than 20 years of nonprofit experience in immigration law, capacity building, advocacy, program development, and collaborative facilitation. Sally has provided technical assistance, trainings, and facilitation to groups on local, state, and national levels and has co-authored a number of publications including The U Visa: Obtaining Status for Immigrant Victims of Crime (ILRC), The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants (ILRC), Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Court Judges (ILRC), and Application of Protection Remedies for Victims of Domestic Abuse, Human Trafficking, and Crime under U.S. Law to Persons Physically Present in the U.S. Territories (Family Violence Prevention Fund).
Prior to working at the ILRC, Sally was a Staff Attorney at Asian Law Caucus and a consultant with ASISTA, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and Family Violence Prevention Fund/Futures Without Violence. During law school, she worked with the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, ACLU of Northern California, and California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation.
Sally is currently a member of the Leadership Council of Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC) and has served as a Federal Bar Association Immigration Law Section Advisory Board Member and Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative (CVIIC) Steering Committee Member.
Sally earned her law degree from the University of California at Davis. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she majored in sociology. She is admitted to the California bar.
Karen Schulz, Managing Attorney - Step Forward Foundation
Karen Schulz is a co-founder and the Managing Attorney of Step Forward Foundation in Morgan Hill, California. She graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts and Santa Clara University School of Law, where she was a student of Professor Lynette Parker. She has been practicing immigration law in the nonprofit sector since 2010, focusing on family unification and humanitarian cases. She recently received the the Unsung Hero award from the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, the Young Alumna Rising Star award from Santa Clara School of Law Alumni Association, and the Mindy Zen Domestic Violence Advocacy Award from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
