JEAN BERMAN:  Jean Berman joined the International Senior Lawyers Project as Executive Director in September 2001, shortly after the completion of the feasibility study for ISLP. Prior to joining ISLP, Ms. Berman was a Senior Staff Attorney at Lawyers Alliance for New York, where for nearly 18 years she represented nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities, specializing in issues related to nonprofit organizations and the development of affordable housing. Earlier in her legal career, Ms. Berman was associated with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Berle, Butzel, Kass & Case, a New York law firm specializing in environmental law. A graduate of Harvard University and the New York University School of Law, Ms. Berman spent the year 1970-71 in Yugoslavia (Belgrade and Novi Sad) on a Fulbright Scholarship, and spent a year in Switzerland and a year in Russia as a child and teenager.

ANNA SHAKAROVA:  Anna Shakarova is the Deputy Director of the International Senior Lawyers Project. Ms. Shakarova joined ISLP in December 2007. She previously served as a Senior Program Officer at the Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC), where she was responsible for a diverse portfolio of technical assistance projects centered on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) lending for financial services institutions in transition and emerging market countries. During her nine years at FSVC, she held a number of positions managing FSVC’s technical assistance programs with a focus on improving banking systems, capital markets, and legal and regulatory frameworks in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Middle East, and Asia. Ms. Shakarova earned her M.A. from the Samarkand State University and a B.A. from the Marymount Manhattan College.

NATHAN MILLER:  Prior to joining ISLP, Nathan created and managed a project to build the capacity of Southern Sudanese lawyers and policymakers by facilitating a global law firm’s pro bono representation of the emerging Government of Southern Sudan. He worked with senior government officials and a team of more than 50 attorneys in 7 countries to provide timely and relevant legal services to the Southern Sudanese delegations to constitutional negotiations.  Before that, Nathan worked for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Southern Sudan, helping to build the institutions of their fledgling legal system. He studied political philosophy (BA, University of Dayton) and law (JD, NYU School of Law), and has spent time working as a researcher at the United Nations International Law Commission in Geneva, at the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT) in New York, and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania

ANDRA MOSS:  Andra has been with ISLP since June, 2007 and is responsible for volunteer outreach to senior lawyers and law firms, for pairing volunteers with international pro bono opportunities, and for disseminating information about the work of ISLP and its clients, partners and volunteers. Andra came to ISLP from the Institute of Management Administration, where she directed programming related to best practices in law firm management, working closely with law firm administrators and managing partners across the country. During a three month sabbatical in 2006, she led a course on volunteerism for the Japanese government-sponsored Ship for World Youth in Kenya and India. She has also headed the volunteer efforts for the Uptown Habitat for Humanity and The Hague Appeal for Peace world peace conference of 1999 and was volunteer coordinator for the Chicago Sister Cities Program. Andra has a BA in International Studies (Miami University, Ohio) and an MS in Human Service Administration and Nonprofit Management (Spertus College, Chicago, Illinois).