Steering Committee Bios

Andrea | Diana | Johanna | Angie
Gloria | Nancy | Cassie

Cassie Pierson

Cassie Pierson is a Staff Attorney with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC). She began working with LSPC in 1994 as a legal intern while attending law school. She received a B.A. from San Francisco State University in 1993 and a J.D. from New College of California School of Law in 1996. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Pierson was a teacher and over the course of twenty-two years taught pre-Kindergarten, First, and Second grades. She continues to be an advocate for parents and children through her work at LSPC by assisting women prisoners in retaining their parental rights while incarcerated. She conducts family law workshops for prisoners confined at San Francisco County Jail and women held at the federal prison in Dublin. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Equal Justice Association and Families With A Future, an organization that provides transportation and assistance to children who wish to visit their parent in prison or jail. She is on the Steering Committee of Free Battered Women and is a member of the Criminal Justice Consortium and the California Coalition for Women in Prison.