19th Annual Women of Achievement Awards Dinner

On May 2, 2024, Legal Momentum held its annual Women of Achievement Awards Dinner at the InterContinental San Francisco. Our inspiring honorees, sponsors, board members, and past honorees made it such a great event.

We presented Rights Now! 2021-2022 Peer Educator Talese Brown’s inspiring performance video from Aiming High 2024, a rendition of Ragtime's "Make Them Hear You," and had a Silent Auction item, an autographed basketball by Golden State Warriors alum Andre Iguodala, generously donated by Man of Distinction David Kelly.

Thanks to all, the dinner remains a Bay Area tradition, and our exceptional network of honorees continues to grow.

Legal Momentum is sincerely grateful for our sponsors:

2024 Honorees

Kristin Sverchek

President

Lyft

Kristin Sverchek is the President at Lyft, a public transportation network company operating in hundreds of cities across the United States and Canada. She holds a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings College of Law). She began in private practice as a corporate transactional lawyer at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP., and was subsequently a Partner at Silicon Legal Strategy, P.C.

Wanji Walcott

Chief Legal & Business Affairs Officer

Pinterest

Wanji Walcott is the Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer at Pinterest and is responsible for leading Legal, Compliance, Public Affairs & Policy, Philanthropy, ESG and Trust & Safety. As an experienced senior executive, Wanji advises the senior leadership and the board of directors and has extensive experience with corporate governance, fintech, technology & innovation, compliance, government relations, investigations, M&A, talent management, and diversity.

PUBLIC SERVICE HONOREE

Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA

President & CEO

The SCAN Foundation

Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The SCAN Foundation. The SCAN Foundation is an independent public charity that envisions a society where every older adult has the choices and opportunity to age well. Its mission is to ignite bold and equitable changes in how older adults age in both home and community. Previously, Sarita served as the Vice President of Care Coordination for Medicaid and Vulnerable Populations at Kaiser Permanente. Sarita was formerly Assistant Professor of Medicine at USC; Chief Medical Officer of COPE Health Solutions, a health care management consulting company; and Senior Medical Director at L.A. Care, the largest U.S. public health plan.

MAN OF DISTINCTION

David Kelly

Chief Legal Officer & Chief Business Officer

Golden State Warriors & Golden State Entertainment

David Kelly is in his 13th season with the Warriors, sixth as Chief Legal Officer and third as Chief Business Officer of Golden State Entertainment. In his current role, Kelly is responsible for all legal matters affecting the company (including transactions, disputes and compliance), and all business operations related to Golden State Entertainment. He manages player development, salary cap management and luxury tax planning for the team, oversees the organization’s human resources and public/governmental affairs departments, assists with college player scouting, and oversees many of the company’s key projects and initiatives on both the business and basketball sides of the company, including legal matters related to the real property acquisition, entitlement, construction and operation of Chase Center and ancillary mixed-use development in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood.