We are excited to welcome Nona Randois to the Bolder Advocacy team! As the Southern California Project Manager, Nona is the face of Bolder Advocacy in So Cal. She provides live and web-based trainings for nonprofit advocates and foundations to ensure that they have the knowledge they need to become confident advocates and the resources and tools to help them navigate complex advocacy rules.
Nona previously worked as an attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, where her practice focused primarily on community economic development. In that role she represented community-based organizations and coalitions in complex community development projects, including serving as lead counsel in land use cases securing tens of millions of dollars of community benefits such as affordable housing and targeted hiring. She assisted grass roots organizations with capacity building and general nonprofit tax, real estate, and corporate legal assistance. She developed curricula and provided community education to hundreds of community-based organizations, attorneys, and other professionals on topics such as nonprofit corporate law, tax exemption, land use planning and development, fundraising, employment law, strategic planning, and organizational capacity building. She also engaged in policy advocacy, with an emphasis in workforce development, targeted and local hiring policies.
Nona earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and undergraduate degrees in International Relations and French from the University of Southern California. She is a member of the Council on Immigrant Integration (a project of the California Community Foundation) and served on the City of Los Angeles Workforce Investment Board for over a decade.