Please consider the following slate of candidates for election: Executive Vice President and two National Vice

Presidents. It would be an honor for us to serve the NLG. We stand united in our support of Azadeh Shahshahani for NLG President. Ian Head, Executive Vice President Adrienne Wheeler, National Vice President Teague Gonzlez, National Vice President CANDIDATE STATEMENT: Ian Head for Executive Vice President I want to announce my candidacy for Executive Vice President of the NLG. I am a legal worker who has been active with the Guild since 2001. I have worked at the National Police Accountability Project, the NLG National Office and now at the Center for Constitutional Rights. I came to the Guild as an activist devoted to prisoners rights, police accountability and racial justice. I continue to find the NLG as a place where I can connect with many people active in these struggles, and not just in the legal field. I have helped to coordinate and organize hundreds of legal observers for the 2004 protests against the Republican National Convention, served on Lynne Stewarts defense committee, and since 2006 organized local volunteers to gather weekly and sent the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook to prisoners across the country. Having served on the National Executive Committee since 2003, I believe that it is vital our leadership be composed of people that make up all the pieces of our field. Having legal workers in key governing positions such as Executive Vice President is essential to bringing a broader and more radical perspective internally and externally to the work we do, not under, but alongside lawyers and law students. As a staff person at the National Office for six years I gained insight into the day-to-day needs of Guild administration and budgeting and am dedicated to strengthening our infrastructure and ability to fundraise. As Executive Vice President, I will support the National Office as much as possible, helping to raise funds and promote their hard work. I hope to provide more of a voice for legal workers at the national level. I want to bolster the Guilds work around providing support for and defending the pro se legal work of prisoners. I want to continue to support the work that TUPOCC and the Anti-Racism Committee have done nationally and locally. The Guild is an exciting place to be, and I am honored to have met so many amazing and inspiring people these past ten years. I look forward to continue supporting our organization provide a place for radical legal activists and our allies as we move forward.

CANDIDATE STATEMENT Adrienne Wheeler for National Vice President I offer my candidacy for the position of National Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild. I have been a member of the NLG as a legal worker, a law student and a graduate. From each of these perspectives, I have gained a great deal of insight into how the Guild works and ways we can build the Guild to make us stronger. I became a member of the NLG as a Guild Legal Observer during the 2004 Republican National Convention held in New York City. As a legal worker, I was later admin and co-chair of the NYC Mass Defense Committee and a member of the NYC Executive Committee. I attended my first convention in Austin with the help of the TUPOCC stipend. In 2010, I was the interim Southern Regional Vice President and filled the temporary vacancy during my last year of law school. Also in 2010, I and roughly 20 other Louisiana Chapter members in New Orleans facilitated the 2010 National Convention. Last year, I co-founded an anti- school to prison pipeline group that has grown from a small student group culled from the Loyola NLG student chapter into a united school-wide Tulane/Loyola juvenile advocacy campaign lead by current law students whom I now mentor. I have also participated in a group effort to resurrect steering committee support for the NLG Southern Regions Vice President. Currently, I am the co-founder of a criminal justice and prisoners rights organization, The Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana. My business partner and I were awarded 1 of 15 Echoing Green fellowships offered globally to tackle the deficiencies of the criminal justice system and prisons in Louisiana in a creative and potentially transformative way. I have experience grant writing and will continue to develop this skill in the coming years. This is a skill I would like contribute to the NLGs national board. We all provide different kinds of support in many peoples movements. These issues are intricately intertwined into the same injustices of institutional racism, sexism, and hierarchy. As a board member, I will take on the position of NVP under the assumption of bottom-lining Guild work as opposed to leading up Guild projects. Over the past seven years of my membership, I have learned from legal workers, law students, and attorneys. I have seen what is possible through cross-generational support and inclusion. I continue to learn from group-led endeavors, as my previous experiences show, and I will facilitate moving the Guild forward collectively with peers, mentors, friends, and allies. Through collective action, we can bring the Guild forward alongside movements in providing needed support. We have the potential to support opposition to injustices on behalf of the many populations with whom we work. This is the energy and momentum I will bring as an NLG NVP. I am consistently humbled to be a part of the Guild. This is an amazing place to be. I want be a part of the national effort to collectively build our organization for the betterment of our clients and our communities.

Adrienne Wheeler, Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana CANDIDATE STATEMENT Teague Gonzlez for National Vice President I write to request your support of my candidacy for National Vice President. Having served the NLG San Francisco Bay Area chapter as President, Vice-President, and Secretary from 2007-11, as well as NLG Student National Vice President from 200507, I have the skills and organizational knowledge to serve the NLG nationally as NVP. For example, my leadership skills, organization-building capacity, and proven fundraising will serve the NLG well because the NVP duties include a responsibility to fundraise, to lead initiatives and projects of the NEC, and to contact and provide assistance to those NLG entities that lack direct representation on the NEC. I joined the NLG-SF Bay Area Chapter in my first year of law school and quickly came to serve locally and then nationally as a student representative. I became involved in the Guild and attended my first convention (Austin) because I received a stipend through The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC). My seven-year membership in the Guild and activism as a law student, legal worker and attorney demonstrate my serious commitment to the mission, vision and values of the Guild. As a legal worker, I presented at the NLG Convention in DC with Anne Befu, David Waggoner, and Marc-Tizoc Gonzlez on a panel entitled, Towards a New Student Insurgency: Critical Legal Theory and Multi-Dimensional Social Justice. I have also presented or moderated on panels about the criminal detention of undocumented residents (collaborating with the National Immigration Project) and community-oriented attorney activism (with the NextGen Committee). Also, I have legal observed at countless SF Bay Area demonstrations and have served as the Guilds representative at the SF Immigrant Rights Defense Committee and Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition. As a leader in the NLG-SF Chapter, I worked hard to facilitate a powerful and productive board culture with board composed of members with diverse ability, age, sexual orientation, race, gender, and jobs. Also, from 2009-10, I helped to oversee the chapters strategic planning process: working with a consultant we surveyed chapter members, community members, and allied organizations to gain an understanding of how the NLGSF could best serve these constituencies while remaining true to our mission and values. See http://www.nlgsf.org/docs/NLGSFstrategicplan.pdf. Also, even while working on the chapters self-governance and infrastructure, the NLG-SF was also a vital participant in the struggles to defend the rights of undocumented residents, prevent gang injunctions in Oakland, and provide mass defense to the communitys uprising following the murder of Oscar Grant.

For the past five years, until July 2011, I worked at the Homeless Action Center in Oakland, CA where I served homeless people with mental health disabilities, providing direct legal services, engaging local policy work to prevent welfare cuts to single adults without children, and initiating three special projects: 1. a pre-release project with the Alameda County jail, where I visited the jail twice weekly to conduct intake interviews with mentally disabled incarcerated individuals; 2. the General Assistance Mass Defense Project, coordinating the pro bono services departments of four Bay Area law schools, and managing 50 law student volunteers whom I recruited and trained to conduct on-the-spot education at three county welfare offices to empower welfare recipients to file hearing requests prior to losing their welfare benefits. Then, working with the county bar associations volunteer legal services program, I trained 30 volunteer attorneys to represent the 400+ welfare recipients who filed hearing requests in the three months leading up to the proposed cuts; and 3. three years of funding to work with the East Oakland Community Project shelter on International Blvd & 75th Avenue, where I visited the shelter 1-2 times a week to conduct legal outreach and provide direct services to over 120 shelter residents. As sketched out above, I am deeply committed to working with extremely poor and homeless clients, as homeless people are situated at and embody the intersection of the many dimensions of oppression in the United States. I am also committed to serving undocumented people, and my pro bono work includes representation of immigrant detainees at bond hearings in San Francisco through Centro Legal de la Razas Deportation Defense program. This past summer I moved to Miami, Florida, became a member of the South Florida Guild chapter, and started a small law office to continue working with homeless and other extremely poor residents, as well as with members of the Seminole and Miccosukee Nations. I would be honored to serve the NLG on a national level where I can bring my diverse experiences and principled commitments to support our leaders and members in the struggle for economic and racial justice.