Our Board Members
Justin Zelikovitz, President
Justin is President of the First Shift Board of Directors. Justin is a local employment law attorney who has spent his career representing working class people throughout the D.C. Metro area. He is the managing lawyer of DCWageLaw: a D.C. law firm that specializes in minimum wage, overtime, and wage payment litigation. Before starting his own law practice, Justin was Litigation Counsel for the D.C. Employment Justice Center and a Trial Attorney at the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law and Duke University. Justin is also on the board of Abriendo Mentes – a non-profit that provides educational opportunities to rural Costa Rican children. is President of the First Shift Board of Directors.
Michelle Woolley, Secretary
Michelle is Secretary of the Board of Directors. She has spent her career advocating for working people and civil rights. She’s currently senior counsel for a large multi-employer pension fund. Previously she worked as an attorney with The Spiggle Law Firm, an employment law firm specializing in pregnancy and family responsibilities discrimination, and was an associate with the employment and labor firm Murphy Anderson PLLC. After law school, she was the Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Michelle earned both her law degree and bachelor degree cum laude from American University. She was inspired to attend law school after working in the policy department of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Michelle is also the mother of a very active and imaginative son.
Fatima Goss Graves, Treasurer
Fatima is Treasurer of the First Shift Board of Directors. Fatima is President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, where she works to promote the rights of women and girls. Fatima advocates and litigates core legal and policy issues, including those that impact pregnant and parenting students. She further works to address discriminatory barriers and advance opportunities for women in the workplace, with a particular focus on low-wage workers. She uses a number of advocacy strategies in her work on these issues ranging from public education and legislative advocacy to litigation, including briefs in the Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals. Prior to joining the Center, she worked as an appellate and trial litigator at Mayer Brown LLP. She began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Fatima is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and Yale Law School. She lives on Capitol Hill with her husband and two young sons.
Adrienne Crawford, Board Member
Adrienne is a midwife at Community of Hope. She received her graduate degree from Fort Valley State University and became a board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) in 2003. She completed her nursing and midwifery education at the University of California, San Franciso and apprenticed at a birth center. She is thrilled to bring her lactation training and out-of-hospital birth experience to the Washington D.C. area and to the women and families of Family Health and Birth Center.
Sade Moonsammy, Board Member
Sade Moonsammy is the Project Manager for Family Values @ Work, a national coalition supporting the fight on paid sick days and paid family leave. Prior to her work at FV@W Sade worked as the State Organizing Manager for Young Millennials, working to educate and organize young adults about D.C. Paid Family Leave and the Affordable Care Act. She has also worked as an organizer around issues related to community development, breastfeeding and health care laws. Sade’s passion and dedication for health care grew from her work with families in the District of Columbia and her experiences as a millennial mother. Her passion for changes in paid leave and healthcare policies are gratefully influenced by the families she was proud to serve during her time as a Family Services Manager and Birth Worker at a federally qualified health center in D.C. When not working, Sade chairs the Race, Inclusivity and Diversity committee of her daughter’s school, works as a Birth Doula and has a lot of fun traveling with her 7 year old.