Our Mission
Everyone Deserves Access to a Fresh Start
We're leading a movement to fight for a legal & financial system we can all access, combining direct services and advocacy. Using education, technology, and community, Upsolve empowers low-income and working-class families to access their legal rights and improve their financial situation. Partnering with our large base of Upsolve users, we also fight to fundamentally change a system stacked against us.
Your Upsolve Team
Besides being lawyers, engineers, academics, and judges we are most importantly people that believe nobody should be too broke to get back on their feet.
Ben Jackson
COO
Fernando Urbina
Chief of Staff
Jacqueline Sadlo
Paralegal, User Advocate
Jeff Zhou
Senior Software Engineer
Jonathan Petts
Co-CEO
Lavinia Teoderescu
Outreach Director
Mae Koppes
Content Manager
Natalia Flores
Paralegal, User Advocate
Tina Tran
Managing Attorney, Product Manager
Tina Tran is the managing bankruptcy attorney for Upsolve, the largest consumer bankruptcy non-profit in the United States. She received her Juris Doctorate degree and Certificate in Advocacy from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Before joining the leadership team at Upsolve, Tina ran her own consumer bankruptcy practice, which she started at the age of 28, defending debtors trying to get back on their feet against aggressive and predatorial lenders and debt collectors. She believes in keeping the law simple and making it accessible for everyday people facing creditor lawsuits, wage garnishments, bank account freezers, foreclosures, and repossessions.
Zev Izenberg
Software Engineer
Philanthropic & Inkind Supporters
We couldn't have made it this far without the great organizations below who believe in us. We're lucky to be supported by top firms, foundations, and institutions across the law, philanthropy, government, education, and technology.
Proud to be represented pro bono by:
