With wide-ranging experience in the public, nonprofit, political, and private sectors, Leslie Hatamiya has held leadership roles in building and managing organizations of many shapes and sizes. Most recently, she has served as a consultant to Bay Area nonprofit organizations, including providing staff support for the John Paul Stevens Fellowship Foundation and coordinating the Vote with Your Mission campaign for the California Association of Nonprofits, and as a reader in Stanford University’s Office of Undergraduate Admission.

From 2004 to early 2012, Ms. Hatamiya was the executive director of the California Bar Foundation, transforming CBF into a vibrant center of philanthropy for California’s legal community. She rebuilt the Board of Directors, developed a growing fundraising program, launched a highly successful scholarship program to increase diversity in the legal profession, sharpened its grant-making strategy, spearheaded a remake of CBF’s brand and public image, and strengthened its relationship with the State Bar of California.

Prior to joining CBF, Ms. Hatamiya served as chief of staff and director of corporate communications and special projects at wireless broadband startup SOMA Networks. As deputy campaign manager for former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley’s 2000 presidential campaign, Ms. Hatamiya helped build a national operation from the ground up and manage the day-to-day operations of the campaign headquarters. She has also served as program director at CORO Northern California, managing the Fellows Program in Public Affairs; as assistant to the president at Yale University; as a law clerk to Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and as special assistant in Bill Bradley’s U.S. Senate Office.

An experienced writer and editor, Ms. Hatamiya is the author of Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (Stanford University Press, 1993), a case study of the political, institutional, and external factors that led to the passage of congressional legislation providing redress for Japanese Americans interned during World War II.