Melody Webb
Executive Director
Melody Webb, Executive Director
Melody is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. She has spent her career practicing public interest law, both paid and unpaid. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan, then on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Since then, Ms. Webb has focused on legislative and policy advocacy as Systemic Reform Attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, as Legislative Counsel for US Senator Robert Casey, and as Associate General Counsel for Service Employees International Union. While at home raising her young children between 2002 and 2006 she ran several pro-bono advocacy campaigns on a variety of topics, working with local and national partners. She was quoted in the media often, including an appearance on the Dianne Rehm Show on NPR. She has supervised public interest attorneys as Legal Director for the Employment Justice Center, and public interest attorneys as Pro Bono Counsel for Neighborhood Legal Services Program of the District of Columbia. In addition, Ms. Webb has represented indigent parents through the Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect of the DC Superior Court, and served on the DC Superior Court, Court Improvement Program Advisory Committee. In 2016, the student body of Harvard Law School selected her as the alumni Gary Bellow Public Service Award recipient. She has taught on the intersecting topics of race, class and family law.
Raquan Wedderburn
Chief of Staff
Raquan Wedderburn, Chief of Staff
Raquan Wedderburn is the Chief of Staff at Mother’s Outreach Network.
Raquan previously served as a Senior Program Coordinator at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, where she honed skills in event planning, internal and strategic communications, and project management. She also contributed her expertise as a Program and Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Social Policy supporting research and program goals.
Her attention to detail, passion for MON’s mission, and management experience make her an asset in driving the organization forward.
She is a graduate of the George Washington University and resides in Washington, DC.
Allegra Hatem
Policy and Outreach Programs Associate
Allegra Hatem, Policy and Outreach Progams Associate
Allegra Hatem (she/her) is a proud D.C. native. She is a 2022 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Chicago, having earned an A.B. in Sociology with Honors specializing in social policy. She also minored in Human Rights as well as Inequality, Social Problems, & Change. Her senior thesis, entitled “Defunding the (Alternatives to) Police: A Chicago Violence Prevention Program’s Barriers to State Funding,” was awarded the Sociology Department’s B.A. Thesis Excellence Award. During college she worked as a research assistant for the University of Chicago Justice Project and as an intern for the D.C. Council Committee for the Judiciary and Public Safety. Happy to be back in D.C., Allegra in her free time enjoys performing in, writing, and watching theater.
Sohani Khan
Managing Attorney