Our Staff
Beth Mazie, Esq.
Beth Mazie has been a Staff Attorney in our Social Security disability advocacy program since 1997. In 2003 she took time off to raise her young children, returning to Rubicon in 2007. Throughout her tenure, she has practiced exclusively in the area of Social Security disability law. She has represented hundreds of clients at Social Security hearings and has handled cases all the way to Federal Court. Prior to her work at the Hawkins Center, Beth worked as a supported living specialist for Golden Gate Regional Center. She has worked as an attorney at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) and volunteered at Community Alliance for Special Education (CASE)advising parents of their rights under special education laws.
Beth graduated from Ithaca College in 1989 and received her J.D. from George Washington University National Law Center in 1993. She has been honored with an award for outstanding service in public interest law by the Bar Association of San Francisco.
Patricia Kaspar, Esq.
Pat Kaspar has been leading our HIV Legal Services Program since she joined the Hawkins Center as a Staff Attorney in 2001. She provides legal assistance to indigent and low income HIV positive individuals residing in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Pat graduated from the Hastings College of Law in 1997. As an undergraduate, she studied Psychology at San Francisco State University.
Prior to her employment with the Hawkins Center, Pat was involved in policy work in the areas of homelessness and housing. Pat has a number of interests. She is a drummer in a band which performs regularly throughout the Bay Area, a beekeeper, and an avid cook and seamstress, and she has a twin sister.
Linda Fountain
Linda Fountain joined Rubicon in 2003. She performs the integral duties of being both the Legal Services Financial Coordinator as well as a Legal Assistant for the Disability Advocacy Program. As Financial Coordinator, Linda is the liaison between legal services’ clients and the Social Security District Office’s concerning client payment issues subsequent to the successful adjudication of their disability cases.
Prior to joining Rubicon, Linda was an Administrative Assistant for the Alameda County Law Library. Linda was also a licensed Securities Representative and Insurance Agent for Primerica Financial during the 1990s. Linda graduated from Merritt College with an A.A. in Business Administration in 1990, and from Cal State Hayward University in 2002 with a B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration.
Rosemary Dady, Esq.
Rosemary Dady is the Managing Attorney at Rubicon Legal Services. She joined The Hawkins Center in 2002 as a Staff Attorney in the Social Security Advocacy Program and became Managing Attorney in 2008. Prior to her work here she was an attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid’s San Francisco office (then known as San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation), in the Community Health Advocacy Project. She also worked for the City of Oakland, ensuring the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
She graduated from Colgate University in 1985, where she received honors for her work in political science and peace studies. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1997. She has been honored with awards for her demonstrated commitment to public interest, including fellowships from the National Association of Public Interest Law and Equal Justice America, as well as the Jeffrey Crandall Public Interest Award for the Georgetown graduate who best exemplifies the ideals of Legal Aid.
Prior to law school, Rosemary spent 9 years working for non-profit organizations, as an education program director for a rape crisis center, an executive director of a battered women’s agency, and as a program developer and grantwriter for San Francisco’’s largest community health center. While attending Georgetown University Law Center, she clerked for a U.S.-based international human rights organization, a national labor union, a civil legal aid organization, and the Jakarta office of an Indonesian human rights organization.
Brian Hogan, Esq.
Brian Hogan began working with Rubicon Legal Services in 2007. He works in both our Social Security Disability Advocacy Program representing clients at their disability hearings and as the lead attorney of the Legal and Workforce Services Program addressing legal barriers to employment. Brian is actively involved in the recently formed Contra Costa Reentry Initiative. He has served on the San Francisco Reentry Council’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civic Engagement of the Formerly Incarcerated. Brian’s work in Rubicon’s Legal and Workforce Services program was recognized as a “best practice” in the emerging field of reentry legal and employment services for formerly incarcerated individuals. (See, The East Bay Community Foundation’s recent study, “Putting the East Bay to Work — Sustainable Jobs for the Underemployed” (September 2009, page 58))
Brian received both his JD and BA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his legal career as an Instructor of Political Science and Legal Administration at Greensboro College in Greensboro, NC.
Kelly Dunn, Esq.
Kelly Dunn, Rubicon Program’s General Counsel and Director of Rubicon Legal Services, has spent his entire legal career assisting disadvantaged individuals. After graduating from Boalt Hall School of Law at U.C. Berkeley in 1982, Kelly spent four years representing consumers in “lemon law” claims against automobile manufacturers. In 1987, joined the fledgling Hawkins Center and became its Executive Director in 1991. During the past 20+ years, Kelly has overseen its growth from a tiny agency to one providing legal services to over 500 individuals with legal barriers each year.
Kelly has served multiple terms over the years as Co-Chair of Contra Costa County’s HIV/AIDS Consortium and as Chair of the Family Care Network Executive Committee. He has been involved in many other is one of the unsung heroes of the San Francisco Bay Area legal community, quietly toiling away for the neediest clients, working long hours, and moving the Hawkins Center and Rubicon Programs forward. When clients and others try to express their gratitude to Kelly, he graciously thanks them and moves on, eager to get back to his work. In 2007, Kelly received an expression of thanks from the legal community and was honored by being named a Pro Bono Attorney of the Year in Contra Costa County.
Terry Westrich
Terry brought a wealth of experience from her 25 year career in the corporate sector when she began working with Rubicon in 2003. Terry is our Senior Client Advocate for our Social Security disability clients. She is responsible for assisting clients who have Social Security claims pending at the Initial or Reconsideration stage of the disability application process. We are very fortunate to have someone with Terry’s skills, Midwestern work ethic, and generous empathy on our Social Security disability advocacy staff.
Raegan Joern, Equal Justice Works Fellow and Staff Attorney for the Mental Health Legal Services Project, received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1999. Moving to California in 2000, she worked as a case manager in San Francisco supportive housing programs until she applied to law school. She received her law degree from UC Hastings College of Law in 2009. While in law school she was a member of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal and co-president of the General Assistance Advocacy Project. She speaks fluent Spanish and enjoys travel, good food, the guitar, and books.
Lily Ana Colonia Sturgis, Esq.
Lily Ana Colonia began working with Rubicon Legal Services as a Law Clerk in the fall of 2009. She became a licensed attorney shortly thereafter and has recently been promoted to Staff Attorney in our Social Security Disability Advocacy program. Lily’s work focuses on representing clients in the earlier disability application stages. Lily graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. She received her J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2009. During the summer of 2007, Lily Ana studied International Law at Zhejiang University, Guanghua College of Law in Hangzhou, China and Université de Nice, Trotabas in Nice, France. She was also a 2008 Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Member and spent the summer working on U-Visa, VAWA and Asylum cases. Lily Ana is fluent in Spanish and French and enjoys baking, bowling, and traveling.
Kelly Dunn (Right) receiving the Contra Costa County 2007 Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George.