Riddhi Mukhopadhyay
, Board Chair
Riddhi Mukhopadhyay (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) and the Interim Advocacy Director at Legal Voice. A former sexual assault and domestic violence advocate, Riddhi started her legal career at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) as a Berkely Law Foundation legal fellow and staff attorney, followed by working at Pierce County Department of Assigned Counsel. Riddhi has co-chaired Seattle's Immigrant and Refugee Commission, and previously served on the board of the Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence and the Washington State’s Gender and Justice Commission. She currently serves by appointment on Washington State’s Women’s Commission. She is adjunct faculty at Seattle University School of Law and University of Washington. In recognition of her work in the field of victims’ rights, Riddhi has received the Jeanette Williams Award from the Seattle Women’s Commission, the Golden Tennis Shoe Award from Senator Patty Murray, the APEX Award for Leadership from the Washington State Bar Association and the Sharon L. Corbitt Award from the American Bar Association. Riddhi provides bilingual legal services in Spanish, and also speaks Bengali and Hindi. Riddhi received her B.A. from Duke University and her J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.
Nam Nguyen, Treasurer
Nam Nguyen is an assistant attorney general in the Revenue and Finance Division in Tumwater. Prior to the Attorney General’s Office, Nguyen worked in private practice in Bellevue and Houston, Texas. Immediately after law school, he volunteered in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, for AmeriCorps BP oil spill relief program. Aside from the WSBA, Nam serves on the board for the Family Support Center, a nonprofit social service organization serving homeless families in the Olympia area, and he is also the Immediate Past Chair of the Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs. Nam was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and grew up in the South Seattle area. He graduated from the University of Washington and Boston University School of Law, and also has a master’s degree in foreign policy from the University of Michigan. Nam resides in Tumwater and enjoys running, reading, cooking, and spending time with his corgi, Dog Vader.
Rachel Luke, Secretary
Rachel Luke is an attorney at Friedman Rubin PLLP in Seattle, Washington. She represents clients in complex products liability, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and aviation litigation. Rachel previously served on the Loren Miller Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Committee, the Joint Asian Judicial Evaluations Committee, and served as co-chair of the Washington State Association for Justice Diversity Committee. She is currently a member of the Korean American Bar Association of Washington, the Loren Miller Bar Association, Washington State Association for Justice, and the American Association for Justice. Rachel received her B.A. from the University of Washington and her J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.
Alma Zuniga, Board Member
Alma Zuniga is a senior managing attorney for the Eastern region field offices and Farmworker unit of the Northwest Justice Project, a statewide legal services organization in Washington State. She supervises, mentors, and supports five managing attorneys and their teams. Before taking the senior managing attorney position, Alma was a staff attorney and later the managing attorney of the Yakima office.
Alma received a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Oregon School of Law. She is an active member of the Washington State Bar Association, Yakima County Bar Association, and American Bar Association. Alma is currently serving as a member of the Judicial Institute and as co-chair of the Access to Justice Conference Planning Committee (2024-2025). She is a 2013 fellow of the Washington Leadership Institute. In the past, Alma has served as a Trustee of the Washington Young Lawyers Division, on the ABA Language Access Project National Advisory Group, the Washington State Interpreter Commission, and as chair of the Yakima Pre-Law Conference, an annual event targeting minority and at-risk high school students in the Yakima Valley.
Carson Phillips-Spotts, Board Member
At Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, Carson represents workers and people who have been injured by the negligence or criminal acts of others. He is proud to stand on the side of people.
Before joining SGB, Carson worked for the region’s largest labor law firm where he represented individuals and unions in state and federal court litigation, as well as in labor arbitrations.
Before that, Carson completed a clerkship with a justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Carson earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Maine. While at Maine Law, he was selected as the Charles Harvey Trial Practice Immersion Fellow. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Alumni Association Award by the faculty for being an outstanding member of his class.
Prior to law school, Carson worked as an immigration services paralegal at the Latin American Association where he helped low-income individuals and families navigate all aspects of the immigration process.
Carson obtained his undergraduate degree from Colby College, where he was a three-year starter on the football team and the recipient of the Tom Austin Award for exemplary contribution to the football program.