FVLC employs a dedicated, diverse staff who together work towards a shared vision of helping communities heal and advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We are attorneys, advocates, and educators and many of us are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

FVLC Management Team

Undrea Barnes

Undrea Barnes is the Crisis Services Manager at FVLC. She has been providing services to domestic violence and sexual assault survivors at FVLC since 2005. Undrea oversees the 24 hour crisis line and has a wealth of knowledge on resources for the survivors.

Juliet Crosby

Juliet Crosby is the Finance Director of Family Violence Law Center. She oversees and does numbers of all types, organizationally and from a grant compliance perspective. She has twenty-seven years of nonprofit finance experience in Social Justice, Education and the Arts.

Tunisia M. Owens

Tunisia M. Owens currently serves as the Housing and Gender Justice Project Coordinator for the Family Violence Law Center. She is a passionate advocate on issues of Black Economic Empowerment, Diversity and Inclusion, Criminal Justice Reform, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth, and Education Equity. Tunisia is originally from Oakland, California and has served the public at non-profit organizations and government agencies in the Bay Area. She returned to Oakland after a career as a diplomat proudly representing the US in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South America. When she is not raising her daughter or working to repair systems, Tunisia finds time to publish her poetry, write fiction stories, and non-fiction articles. She graduated from Spelman College in Political Science and Economics, holds a joint Master’s degree from Princeton University in Public Policy and Urban/Regional Planning, and obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Stephanie Penrod

Stephanie Penrod is FVLC’s Grants & Contracts Manager.  Stephanie joined the Family Violence Law Center as a Staff Attorney in 2010 and served as the Managing Attorney until 2023.  Stephanie has over fourteen years of experience providing and administering family law and direct support services to domestic violence survivors.  Stephanie holds a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law and a B.S. in Organizational Development and Women’s Studies from Vanderbilt University.

Erin Scott

Erin Scott is FVLC’s Executive Director. She has extensive experience as a domestic violence and sexual assault advocate, a family law attorney, and a nonprofit manager. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UnCommon Law and previously served on the Board of Director of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence and the Family Violence Appellate Project  Prior to joining FVLC, she was the Directing Attorney of Legal Advocates for Children & Youth, a program of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, and the Director of Foundation Support at the ACLU Foundation of Northern California. She has a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.

Marissa Seko

Marissa Seko is FVLC’s Family Violence Intervention Unit Manager.  Marissa has more than ten years of experience providing nonprofit program coordination and direct services to a diverse client base, with a dedicated focus on providing high quality, trauma informed crisis intervention services to domestic violence and sexual assault survivors for the past 6 years. She has a BA Degree with a Concentration in Gender/Women’s Studies from Grinnell College and is also a recent graduate of the Women’s Foundation of California’s Women’s Policy Institute Fellowship Program. Marissa joined FVLC in 2012.

Evelyn Soria

Evelyn Soria is FVLC’s Youth Programs Manager. Evelyn has extensive experience as an educator and organizer working with young people at the intersections of anti-violence and transformative justice movements. A graduate of the SFSU Women & Gender studies graduate program, she oversees both gender-based violence programming at OUSD high schools, as well as the Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP), which develops youth as peer educators and organizers building healthy relationships and challenging interconnected forms of violence. A proponent of transterritorial organizing, dialogue, and relationship building, she is also connected with the Universidad de la Tierra (Oaxaca and California) and the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA), through which she explores questions of land, autonomy, and communal resistance. Ultimately, Evelyn seeks to anchor herself in deep commitments to transformative justice, reclaiming relations with land/community and dreaming of a world free from all forms of violence.

Laura MacInnis

Laura MacInnis is the Managing Attorney at Family Violence Law Center. Prior to managing, Laura joined FVLC as a staff attorney at FVLC since 2017, and was promoted to Senior Staff Attorney in 2019. In her various roles at FVLC, Laura has served hundreds of survivors of intimate partner and familial violence, sexual assault, stalking, and trafficking. She has led various trainings in family law, and has supervised dozens of law students, fellows, and volunteers.  Since joining the legal profession in 2016, Laura has dedicated her career to serving domestic violence survivors in a non-profit setting. She holds a B.A. In English from Ohio State University and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.