Curious to learn more about the Director of the Napa Sonoma ADU Center? Check out her profile in the North Bay Business Journal’s Top Forty Under 40 Professionals in the San Francisco North Bay – you can read the full article right here.
“A lawyer by training and a nonprofit leader by trade,” Renee J. Schomp is a Sonoma County native who has spent a lot of that nonprofit career in the legal aid sector leading teams helping “hundreds of immigrants, military veterans, seniors, individuals experiencing homelessness and people reentering our community from the criminal justice system.”
She recalls, “When I worked in the immigration space as a legal aid lawyer, winning asylum for a 10 year old boy from El Salvador so that he could remain in the U.S. with his parents and baby brother. Like every successful professional accomplishment, it was a team effort with another colleague and, most of all, with him. He is an incredibly strong and resilient boy.”