Faculty & Staff Biographies
Sara Campos is a Visiting Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution (LCCR) at LMU Loyola Law School as well as a certified bilingual mediator. Campos trains and mentors staff, LLS students, and community volunteers in Basic Mediation Skills and teaches Mediation. As a Latina, she adds diversity and brings the perspective of a person working in and believing in the traditional mediation model. Yet her legal training allows her to understand and appreciate other models as well.
Campos is in a unique position to utilize her legal, bilingual, and bicultural skills and knowledge to assist litigants in resolving their disputes through mediation. Campos is a member of the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA), the American Bar Association (ABA) Dispute Resolution Section, the Mexican American Bar Association, the Latina Lawyers Bar Association, and the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM). Campos also served two terms on the board of the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) and chaired it's Membership Development Committee. Campos has participated on numerous mediation panels including The Second Appellate District Court Panel. She has previously worked on the L.A. Superior Court panel, Centinela Youth Services Victim Offender and Family Panel, and the EEOC and DFEH mediation panels doing employment discrimination matters.
Campos is a member of the Just the Beginning A High School to Law School Pipeline Organization – Los Angeles (JTB-LA) Steering Committee and received the JTB-LA Leadership Award of Excellence for her outstanding contributions to the JTB-LA Summer Legal Institute, as well as Loyola Law School's Service Award in 2019. Campos, along with another colleague, received the 2005, 2012, and 2018 Case of the Year Award from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. LCCR's Landlord/Tenant Options Counseling Clinic was also recognized during a 2022 White House ceremony for responding to the Attorney General’s Call to Action to the Legal Profession to address the housing and eviction crisis and help increase housing stability and access to justice.
Campos received her bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Juris Doctor from LMU Loyola Law School, where she trained at LCCR as a law student mediator.
Alexandra Pogonat is the Assistant Director at Loyola's Center for Conflict Resolution. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in English Comparative Literary Studies from Occidental College and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School. She is an attorney and received mediation training satisfying the Dispute Resolutions Program Act as a law student. She has over ten years of mediation and conciliation experience and is fluent in Romanian and Spanish.
Janet Sacks Grundfest is a Senior Conflict Resolution Associate/Mediator at the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution who was named Los Angeles County Volunteer of the Year in 2018, for her work in mediation and conflict resolution. Janet is a graduate of The University of Southern California with a B.A. in communications and sociology and received her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School. Janet received her Dispute Resolutions Program Act Mediation training through the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs and Loyola Law School. Janet is a part-time staff mediator at the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution and is an attorney.
Robert Antunez has over a decade of experience as a mediator, having served with the Inland Valley Justice Center, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, and currently with the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from UCLA, a Master’s degree in Counseling from San Diego State University, and a Juris Doctor from the West Los Angeles School of Law.
In addition to his mediation work, Robert is an accomplished musician, performing both as a solo pianist and as part of a band. He is fluent in both Spanish and English, allowing him to effectively communicate and mediate in diverse settings.
Anat Sasson is the Intake Coordinator and a Senior Conflict Resolution Associate/Mediator at The Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business- Economics from UCLA and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School. Anat completed her mediation training that satisfies the California Dispute Resolution Programs Act (DRPA) at the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution, as well as additional training in collaborative mediation from (LACFLA). Anat is an attorney and fluent in Hebrew.
Cynthia Campoy Brophy has worked in the nonprofit sector for many years, with a focus on youth empowerment and the arts. She began her career at The Museum of Contemporary Art and left to launch a nonprofit arts education organization, artworxLA. From founding the organization, to expanding it and eventually passing it on to the next generation of leadership, she worked to link existing resources to young people who lacked access to social, educational, and creative opportunities. She participated in youth empowerment efforts locally and nationally, serving on the national Creative Youth Development advisory board, the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Arts for LA (Board Chair), and was a State appointee on the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Board. She has served on panels and as speaker for organizations including the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the National Dropout Prevention Conference, the National Guild. Professional learning opportunities include Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Scaling for Impact program and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders/Arts, and she is a Durfee Foundation sabbatical recipient. Current projects include the creation and facilitation of a Resourcing Lab, a curriculum providing skills-building and wellness practices; the conceptualization and design of a Centering Center, a multi-sensory space for respite and rejuvenation; the launch of Create Protest, an online marketplace for activist merchandise designed by artists. She trained in Mediation at Loyola Law School’s Center for Conflict Resolution, and was recently an Artist-in-Residence teaching Conflict Resolution at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ghandinagar in Gujurat, India.
Stephanie Schestag is an attorney and entrepreneur. She works part time at the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution and owns small businesses throughout Los Angeles County. Stephanie is a graduate of Mills College where she earned her bachelor's degree in Sociology and received her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School. Stephanie received her Dispute Resolutions Program Act Mediation training at Loyola Law School.
Zoe Hernandez is a full-time Senior Conflict Resolution Associate/Mediator and Outreach Coordinator at the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution. She received her bachelor's degree in Gender & Feminist Studies and Chicanx/Latinx studies from Pitzer College and her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School. She is an attorney and received mediation training satisfying the Dispute Resolution Programs Act as a law student.
Claudia Suarez is the Administrative Coordinator at the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution. In addition, Claudia also conducts community outreach and mediates custody and disputes in Dependency Court.
She received her Paralegal Degree from UCLA. Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from University of Phoenix. Associate’s Degree in Political Science from Santa Monica College. Claudia has extensive experience as a paralegal on the Financial Industry, Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice, Family Law, Probate, Worker’s Compensation and Personal Injury. She provides Spanish language interpretation and translation.
She received mediation training (English and Spanish) that satisfies the Dispute Resolutions Program Act. Claudia coordinates the Center’s three clinical programs: C-MAC, DC-MAC and C-LAW.
Philip Adler is a Conflict Resolution Associate/Conciliator at the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Biology from the University of California, San Diego and his Master’s and Doctorate in Psychology from the California Graduate Institute of the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He received training from the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association, and he received mediation training that satisfies the Dispute Resolutions Program Act.