Meet Our Staff
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Alan Mills
Executive Director
Alan started volunteering at UPLC in 1979 while attending Northwestern University School of Law. He served as a staff attorney for two years, and became Legal Director in 1992. In 2014, Alan was appointed UPLC’s Executive Director. Under his leadership, UPLC has developed the largest docket in the state of Illinois of civil rights cases filed on behalf of Illinois prisoners. UPLC currently has seven pending class action cases protecting Illinois prisoners’ civil rights.
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Nicole Schult
Attorney
Attorney Nicole Schult graduated from Boston University Law School and has been working at UPLC since 2011. Nicole coordinates our Social Security Program, handles most of UPLC’s tenants’ rights cases, and works on our prisoners’ rights cases.
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Brian Nelson
Prisoners' Rights Coordinator / Investigator
UPLC Prisoners’ Rights Coordinator, Brian Nelson, is a former prisoner. He spent 23 years in solitary, including 12 consecutive years at Tamms supermax prison. He has been at UPLC since 2011. Brian records and responds to over 100 letters from prisoners every week, and works with individuals and community groups who have loved ones in prison.
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Liz Mazur
Legal Director
Liz joined UPLC in 2018. After earning her JD from U.C. Berkeley, Liz was a Skadden Fellow at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in Chicago. She went on to work for ten years at Loevy & Loevy, a public interest law firm, where she focused on Section 1983 litigation concerning police misconduct, and jail and prison conditions.
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Megan Groves
Director of Development & Communications
Megan holds a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Marketing Management from North Park University. She is an activist and community organizer, and has worked at UPLC since January 2015.
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Antonia Rojas
Office Manager
Toni has been at UPLC for over 25 years. She serves as the Office Coordinator, provides information and referrals to clients, and performs legal intakes. Toni has lived in Uptown for many years.
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Eva Dawson
Paralegal
Eva began at UPLC in December 2016. They conduct research, process medical records, perform legal intakes and assist the office attorneys with medical summaries, legal briefs, as well as administrative tasks. Eva graduated from Grinnell College in 2014.
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Aubrey Dvorak
Development Assistant
Aubrey began at UPLC in July 2017. She assists with fundraising, social media management and financial bookkeeping. She graduated from Loyola University- Chicago in 2016.
Board of Directors
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Arthur Ellis
President/ Treasurer
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Malorie Medellin
Secretary
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James P. Chapman
Past President, Illinois Institute of Community Law
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Jessica Frogge
Attorney
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Robert Hodge
Attorney
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Gregory McConnell
Winston & Strawn LLP
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Levi Stahl
University of Chicago
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Rachel Steinback
Attorney
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Joseph Snapper
Mayer Brown
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Sean Suber
Winston & Strawn LLP
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Herbert Zarov
Mayer Brown
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Sarah Grady
Loevy & Loevy
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Daniel Greenfield
MacArthur Justice Center
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Ryan Dunigan
Winston & Strawn