We’ve spent years building Mobile Pathways around a simple conviction: immigrants deserve the same access to legal information and justice as everyone else. Today, I'm proud to share that two people who embody that conviction — and bring serious firepower to advance it — are stepping into new leadership roles on our board of directors.
Ruby L. Powers is our new Chair. Woodson Martin is our new Vice Chair.
Ruby is one of the reasons I wake up energized about this work.
She's a Houston-based immigration attorney and founder of Powers Law Group, a respected full-service immigration law firm. She is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law, and has represented clients from more than 45 countries seeking asylum. Her mother was born in Mexico. Her husband was born in Turkey. Immigration isn't abstract to her. It's personal, and her life's work reflects it.
She's exactly the kind of person our tools are built for and built by. A pioneer in remote law practice and an early adopter of AI-driven legal tools, Ruby also leads Powers Strategy Group, helping firms modernize and grow. When she first encountered Mobile Pathways, she called us "not your typical nonprofit." Now she's leading it.
Ruby is also a recognized thought leader in the field of immigration, law practice management and legal technology. She authored Power Up Your Practice: Create the Law Firm and Life You Deserve and hosts the Power Up Your Practice podcast. She is a law professor, a national and international speaker, and contributes to ABA Law Practice Magazine, Above the Law, and the Texas Bar Journal. She serves as a Board Member of ABA TECHSHOW and Secretary of the AILA Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma Chapter. Her work has been featured in CNN, The Washington Post, MSNBC, and Reuters, and she has received the AILA Advocacy Award and been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. She doesn't just practice immigration law. She shapes the conversation around it.
Ruby brings legal depth, lived perspective, and a deep belief that technology can scale justice. We couldn't ask for a better Chair.
Woodson is CEO of OutSystems, a global leader in AI-powered software development, and spent 18 years in senior leadership at Salesforce before that. He's one of the most credible voices on what AI can do at scale.
But what sets Woodson apart isn't just his career. In 2018, he took a sabbatical to volunteer at the U.S./Mexico border, assisting asylum-seeking mothers and children who'd been dropped off at a bus station with nowhere to go. That experience didn't leave him. It brought him to Mobile Pathways.
He's been a board member for years. Now, as Vice Chair, he brings the full weight of his AI and platform expertise to our governance and growth. The potential he sees in technology to reach millions of immigrants who currently have no legal representation at all is exactly why we built this organization, and why having him at the table matters more than ever.
This announcement comes as we continue to mature our governance: pairing the right values with the right expertise. Late last year, we welcomed four remarkable new directors whose lived experience and professional depth strengthened our foundation. Now, with Ruby and Woodson stepping into executive roles, we have the leadership structure to match the scale of our ambitions.
The work ahead is urgent. The board we're building is ready for it.
Ruby and Woodson have been part of this journey for years. Now they're leading it.
