
Samantha Wood
Legal Intake Specialist
At Yale, Samantha worked as a First Generation and Low-Income Ambassador from 2018-2020.

Meredith Crockett
Legal Intake Specialist
Meredith’s senior thesis focused on expanding access to community courts and pre-trial diversion programs in highly incarcerated zip codes. Her hope is to use that work and research to inform a career focused on restorative justice practices in the state judiciary.

Pavel Velkovsky
Senior Legal Assistant
At Berkeley, Pavel was the acting assistant deputy director for the Nuclear Policy Working Group in 2018, as well as a member of the Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation.

Ayanna Martin
Senior Legal Assistant
While at Vanderbilt, Ayanna served as Chair of Project I Am, an organization dedicated to the personal and professional development of minority students.

Anderson Riddick
Senior Legal Assistant
During his time at Duke, Anderson worked as an Operations Associate at Battleground Texas, a GPAC dedicated to supporting national, state and local Democratic Party candidates in Texas.

Erika Rigsby
Human Resources Coordinator
At the University of Memphis, Erika took a particular interest in criminology, criminal justice, and political psychology.

Jonte Hunter
Litigation Fellow
Prior to joining the firm, Jonte clerked for the Honorable Phyllis D. Thompson, Associate Judge for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Jonathan Tepe
Associate
Prior to joining Sanford Heisler Sharp, Mr. Tepe clerked for the Honorable Sarah A. L. Merriam, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Connecticut.

Johan Conrod
Of Counsel
Johan has over 17 years of experience in commercial litigation and has tried dozens of cases in state and federal courts representing businesses, individuals and localities.

Leigh Anne St. Charles
Senior Litigation Counsel
Prior to joining Sanford Heisler Sharp, Ms. St. Charles was an associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP in Washington, DC, where her practice involved a variety of complex commercial litigation matters in both federal and state courts.