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Cynthia is an associate in Meyers Nave’s Public Law group and provides legal counsel and opinions to several municipalities and redevelopment agencies on matters relating to government ethics, public contracting, constitutional law, nuisance abatement, code enforcement, the Public Records Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, and election law. Cynthia is currently an Assistant City Attorney for the City of South San Francisco and a staff attorney for the Town of Los Altos Hills.Cynthia was a summer associate at Meyers Nave during law school. She received her J.D. from the University of California at Davis King Hall School of Law, where she was a research assistant to former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, a Civil Rights clinic volunteer, Co-Chair of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and Senior Articles Editor of the Environs Law Journal. Cynthia was a law clerk in the felony unit of the Office of the Public Defender in San Francisco and for the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. Cynthia has also worked as a legislative researcher for Diane Abbott, a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons (UK). In that capacity, Cynthia conducted extensive research on and performed legislative advocacy for education, refugee and immigration-related issues. Cynthia has interned for United States Senator Barbara Boxer, organized It’s a She-Thang, a young women’s conference in San Francisco, and served as a commissioner on the San Mateo County Youth Commission, where she researched and implemented alternatives to juvenile incarceration. She has also interned for the National Organization for Women in Washington, D.C., where she assembled an online voter’s guide, lobbied politicians on bills that implicated women’s rights, worked on campaigns, and assisted in organizing the 150th Anniversary of the first women’s convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Cynthia was featured as "the voice of young feminism" in a National Organization for Women brochure in 2000. | 