Lome A. Aseron
Director, Empowerment Research!
lome@cdi-usa.org
(650) 327-5846 x 304
Lome grew up in New Orleans, LA and Brooklyn, NY. After earning his B.A. in Classics from Brown University, he represented families who were unlawfully denied public assistance benefits as a paralegal at the Legal Aid Society of Brooklyn, NY. Lome graduated from the University of California, Berkeley – Boalt Hall School of Law in 2000, where he produced a paper that analyzed the nation-wide impact of the Community Reinvestment Act on low-income communities and communities of color.
After passing the California Bar, Lome worked for three years at the San Francisco Human Rights Commission enforcing San Francisco’s anti-discrimination in public contracting program. During his tenure at the Human Rights Commission, he presented a report on discrimination against Iranian Americans to the Board of Supervisors that led to an amendment extending local non-discrimination legislation to Iranian Americans. He also worked on Violence in Our City, a comprehensive report that included community-based methods on reducing crime in San Francisco’s communities of color. From 2004 through 2005, Lome served as the Executive Director of Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, a nonprofit organization that provides life-changing legal assistance to 1,200 low-income individuals and their families each year.
Since 2003, Lome has maintained a law practice representing small businesses and nonprofit organizations in a variety of transactional matters. Most recently, as Director of the Community Development Institute’s applied research program, Empowerment Research!, Lome manages several research projects including: a needs assessment of Pacific Islander human services in East Palo Alto for the California Endowment and Pacific Islander Community Center, an analysis of comprehensive community initiative best practices and a literature review of cultural competency best practices for the National Community Development Institute, a statistical and spatial analysis of East Palo Alto crime data, and an air monitoring project funded by United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
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