Standing up for
Rhode Island

Kevin Love Hubbard is the Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island, where he also serves as Counsel.  Before joining LCRI, Kevin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Rhode Island, where he represented the United States in a wide range of civil matters, from May 2021 until he was named Chief of the Civil Division in January 2024.

 

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Kevin was a partner in a plaintiffs’ side civil rights law firm, bringing claims to address employment discrimination, unconstitutional prison conditions, and police misconduct in the Bay Area in California, and a law clerk for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Kevin graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007 and the Yale Law School in 2012.

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Amy Retsinas Romero is Chief Legal Counsel for the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island. Prior to joining LCRI, Amy served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Rhode Island from 2016 until March 2025, where her work focused on civil rights litigation and community outreach.

 

Prior to government service, she worked as a staff attorney at Rhode Island Legal Services and Community Legal Aid, a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Director of Domestic Violence Court at Rhode Island Family Court, and as an advocate at Domestic Violence Resource Center for South County. Amy is a graduate of Providence public schools, then graduated from Swarthmore College in 2001 and University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2009. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration.

Juan E. Bedoya is a Staff Attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island (LCRI). He began his career as a Skadden Fellow at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project, representing noncitizens in removal proceedings and before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. He then clerked for Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

 

Most recently, he worked as a Litigation Staff Attorney at the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), where he worked on litigation advancing immigrants’ rights. Juan earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and his J.D. from the New York University School of Law. He is a native Rhode Islander and fluent in Spanish.