Board of Directors
Anthony Lew – Chair
Anthony Lew, JD, MPH, is an attorney and legislative advocate in the office of Attorney General Xavier Becerra, handling issues involving consumer protection, privacy rights, white-collar crime, and regulation of nonprofits. Before joining the Justice Department in 2018, he served as counsel for the Assembly Judiciary Committee in the CA State Legislature for nearly 10 years, where he worked to further progressive policy on access to justice, civil and personal rights, and landlord/tenant law issues. Before earning his JD from UC Hastings School of Law, Anthony enjoyed a career in epidemiology. While studying at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, he wrote his thesis on the effectiveness of needle exchange programs. He volunteered as an outreach worker for the Berkeley needle exchange program (NEED). He later worked as a research analyst for the HIV Epidemiology program of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Anthony is part of a coalition of tenants’ rights advocates currently organizing to enact rent control and cause eviction laws in Sacramento. In his free time, he is a musician who plays bass guitar in the Sacramento punk band Sick Burn.
Annie Chou Vice-Chair
Annie Chou is the Chief of Staff in the California State Legislature. A scientist by education, Annie graduated from Denison University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and minors in Geology and Music. She honed her craft in organizing within the progressive labor movement of San Francisco and ran many successful campaigns in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Orange County. Annie is passionate about a wise progressive policy that creates real social change. Annie loves bikes, baking, and her black cat named KitKat.
Dr. Ava Asher, MD
Ava Asher, MD, is a family physician at the Sacramento Native American Health Center with a particular interest in the outpatient treatment of substance use disorder and the integration of treatment of marginalized populations into primary care. She graduated from UC Davis Family and Community Medicine in 2015 and has dedicated herself to working outside of the major medical systems of the region, which also included the clinic formerly known as CARES (the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services), and volunteering throughout her time in Sacramento at UCD Student-Run Clinics. Before pursuing medical training at New York Medical College, she worked as a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health studying HIV/AIDS pathophysiology and vaccine targets. In her free time, she plays ultimate frisbee, reads, and takes pictures of her cats in various positions of repose.
Alicia Agnoli
Alicia Agnoli, MD, MPH, MHS is an assistant professor of Family & community medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine.
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