Leadership

Alex Mohajer

President

Alex Mohajer is an award-winning independent political writer and commentator, advocate, and organizer. In 2021, he became the first millennial and first Iranian American elected President of the Stonewall Democratic Club, the nation's oldest LGBTQ+ feminist political advocacy organization. He previously served as the Public and Media Relations Chairman, where his organizing efforts around the 2020 US presidential election earned a 2020 Truman Award. 

As a journalist, Mohajer has written for USA Today, Huff Post, and Medium, and in 2018, his criticisms of the Trump Administration won the 2018 Excellence in Journalism Award for Excellence in Feature Writing from the National Association of LGBTQ Journalists. He holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from Chapman University School of Law.

Steve Bott

Vice President, Operations

Steve has been a local Democratic activist and member of the Stonewall Democratic Club since 2013, and is currently serving his 3rd term as the club's Operations Vice President. He has served three terms as a delegate to the California Democratic Party.

Devin Adante

Vice President, Financial Development

Jonathan Welch

Vice President, Communications

Jonathan Welch served as the Produced Media Chair of the Stonewall Democratic Club before being elected to Communications Vice President in 2021. 

Nico Brancolini

Vice President, Community

Nicholas “Nico” Brancolini joined Kiesel Law LLP in 2019. He works across the firm’s consumer class actions, mass tort litigation, and catastrophic personal injury practice areas.

Mr. Brancolini attended Claremont McKenna College, graduating with a B.A. in American Studies, and earned his J.D. at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. While at Loyola he served as Executive Symposium Editor of the International and Comparative Law Review and, together with Loyola’s Center for the Study of Law and Genocide, co-organized a Commemoration of the Nuremberg Trials’ 70th anniversary in 2015. 

Mr. Brancolini is a member of the State Bar of California; U.S. District Court, Central District of California; Italian American Lawyers Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association; and serves on the Young Leadership Council for Lambda Legal.

Renay Grace Rodriguez

Vice President, Political

Formerly unhoused, mixed race, lesbian, who fights for justice. Attorney since 1998, overcame a lot of odds to get there.  I wear many hats, but the hat I like the most is my motorcycle helmet!  But when I'm not riding I am busy . . . . 

Vice President of the Chatsworth Porter Ranch Chamber of Commerce

ADEM 40th Assembly District

CADEM Organizational Committee member

LACDP Alternate to Betty Doumas Toto

Dem Party of San Fernando Valley - Co-Chair Events Committee 

Stonewall Democratic Club - Political VP & DPSFV Rep.

Feel the Bern San Fernando Valley - Secretary

North Valley Democratic Club - Secretary

Cell Phone (818) 554-9922

Steve Rouse

Recording Secretary

Steve Rouse is a professor of psychology, with an emphasis on personality and psychological assessment. He has done research on topics including anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice among Fundamentalist Christians and the ways inclusive churches are able to effectively communicate queer affirmation. He also serves as a volunteer Lifeline crisis counselor with the Trevor Project.

Reuben Zadeh

Controller

Reuben Zadeh has been a member of Stonewall's Steering Committee since 2016. Reuben grew up in the San Fernando Valley and received his AA in Economics from Los Angeles Valley College in 1989 and his BS in Accounting from California State University Northridge in 1992. He has been a CPA in private practice for over 20 years and a lifelong Democrat. Reuben previously served as the treasurer of Democrats for Israel, Los Angeles from 1998 to 2005 and has been involved in Democratic Party activism over the past 2 decades.

Jasmyne Cannick

Self-Identified Female At-Large Member

Steven Martin

At-Large Member

Nadia Sutton

Self-Identified Female At-Large Member

Tai Sunnanon

At-Large Member

Lester Aponte

President Emeritus

President Emeritus Lester Aponte has served Stonewall for more than 10 years, including the elected positions of Community Vice President and from 2017 to 2021, as President. He is a Puerto Rican-born employment lawyer and activist, and the LGBTQ+ Caucus Chair of the California Democratic Party.