Cory Hernandez
Senior Managing Attorney
Cory Hernandez is a Senior Managing Attorney at Family Violence Appellate Project (FVAP), a statewide nonprofit focused on helping survivors of domestic violence and gender-based abuse appeal dangerous trial court orders, for free.
Arati Vasan
Senior Managing Attorney
Arati Vasan represents survivors of gender-based and family violence on appeal and manages FVAP’s training and law clerk/fellow programs. Her work has focused on trauma and culturally-responsive representation and services, language justice, confidentiality protections, and family/dependency court crossover issues for survivors. Ms. Vasan gives trainings and presentations for a wide range of stakeholders at the local, state, and national level on these issues, as well as on appellate advocacy, litigation, and family/domestic violence law. Ms. Vasan provided full-scope family/civil court representation for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the Bay Area for a decade before joining FVAP in 2018. Prior, she had a solo family law practice representing survivors of violence. Ms. Vasan also did pro bono and contract work for Bay Area Legal Aid. She completed her training to qualify as a California Domestic Violence Counselor in 2009 and has been licensed to practice law in California since 2008. Ms. Vasan is admitted to practice in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Law. Ms. Vasan is on the facilitator faculty for the ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. She has also been a faculty trainer for Practicing Law Institute and the Vera Institute on Justice. Prior to FVAP, Ms. Vasan had served as a co-chair of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium for three years.
