With wide-ranging experience in the public, nonprofit, political, and private sectors, Leslie Hatamiya leads the California Bar Foundation as its Executive Director.

Over the past 16 years, Hatamiya has held leadership roles in building and managing organizations of many shapes and sizes. Most recently, Hatamiya served as Chief of Staff and Director of Corporate Communications and Special Projects at SOMA Networks, a San Francisco-based wireless broadband startup company, where she led the SOMA's marketing and corporate communications efforts, coordinated its investor relations, and managed a broad range of cross-functional projects. As Deputy Campaign Manager for Bill Bradley's 2000 presidential campaign, Hatamiya helped build a national operation from the ground up and managed the day-to-day operations of the campaign headquarters. She has also served as Program Director at Coro Northern California, managing the Fellows Program in Public Affairs; as Assistant to the President at Yale University; as Law Clerk to Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit; and as Special Assistant in Bradley's U.S. Senate Office.

Hatamiya is an experienced writer and editor and is the author of Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (Stanford University Press, 1993), a case study of the political, institutional, and external factors that led to the passage of congressional legislation providing redress for Japanese Americans interned during World War II. 

Hatamiya is currently chair of the National Advisory Board of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University and a member of the Stanford Associates Board of Governors. She recently completed terms on Stanford's Board of Trustees, the Board of Directors of the Stanford Alumni Association, and Stanford's Trustee Task Force on Minority Alumni Relations. In 2006, she received Stanford's Asian American Alumni Award and was named one of the "Best Lawyers Under 40" by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Hatamiya holds an A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University, where her honors included election to Phi Beta Kappa and receiving a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review A native of Marysville, California, Hatamiya is a member of the California Bar.