BOARD OF DIRECTORS BIOGRAPHIES |
Director and President-Elect Doralyn DeDios is an Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. She practices in the Integrated Domestic Violence Bureau. Ms. DeDios earned her B.S. from St. John’s University and her J.D. from New York Law School. She is admitted to the New York State Bar. During law school Ms. DeDios was the Robert F. Wagner moot court competition chair, the admissions committee chair for LALSA, the mentoring committee chair for BLSA and the co-president for the Unemployment Action Center. Doralyn first joined the Dominican Bar Association as a law student. In 2018 she co-chaired the Professional Business Development Committee. As a new board member she is coming on as President-elect and will continue to co-chair the Professional Business Development Committee and will be the new co-chair of the Youth Outreach Committee. Ms. DeDios is the current co-chair for the community service committee for the Association of Black Women Attorneys and she is an active member for the Hispanic Bar Association, the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association. |
Director Nakary Abreu is an Assistant District Attorney at the Office of the District Attorney, Bronx County. In 2017, she received her Juris Doctorate Degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. Prior to attending law school she worked as a Legislative Director at the New York State Assembly. Nakary is a native New Yorker and a proud daughter of immigrants of the Dominican Republic. |
Director and Recording Secretary Atenedoro Gonzalez was born and raised in the Bronx to Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Dominican parents. His law School career was spent largely at the service of the public, interning with the Honorable Richard Price in the criminal term of Bronx Supreme Court, interning with Part of The Solution (POTS) in their housing unit, and interning at the New York Legal Assistance Group representing low income residents in administrative hearings. Atenedoro was also a board member of MetroLALSA, where he helped organize it's 6th Annual Palante Conference at Fordham University School of Law. Today Atenedoro continues his fight for his community as a housing attorney with the tenants rights coalition at Bronx Legal Services, where he represents members of his community in their fight to maintain their rights in suitable and habitable housing. |
Director and Corresponding Secretary Jamell Isidor is an attorney for the Department of Buildings of the City of New York. She primarily works on criminal enforcement actions against egregious offenders who are in violation of the New York City (NYC) Building Code and zoning laws. She also prosecutes violations of the NYC Construction Code and NYC Electrical Code before the hearings division of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH). |
Luisanna Del RosarioDirector Luisanna is Court Attorney to Supreme Court Justice, Guy H. Mitchell, in the Youth Part in New York County. She is the proud daughter of parents from Salcedo, Dominican Republic and was born and raised in Washington Heights, New York. Her interest in law is rooted in her desire to serve and be a resource to the Latino and other underserved communities. Luisanna received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from New York University and her Juris Doctor degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. During law school, she participated in the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic where she assisted in spearheading the New York York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), the first government-funded universal representation project in the United States for detained immigrants facing deportation. In 2014, she was a Summer Associate at Schiff Hardin, LLP where she worked in a wide range of corporate practice areas and took a particular interest in Elder Law and special needs planning. Luisanna first joined the Dominican Bar Association as a law student. In 2016, she co-chaired the Young Lawyers Committee. As a newly elected board member, she will continue to co-chair the Young Lawyers Committee and serve the organization. |