Natalie Copeland, Program Director
Natalie started her journey with CASA as a staff member and most recently served as the Senior Advocate Supervisor at CASA by the Lakes in Murray, Kentucky. She describes herself as a passionate human services professional with both paid and volunteer experience in the field. She prides herself as skilled at collaborative leadership, personalizing relationships, and demonstrating compassionate advocacy. Her experience as a CASA and as a supervisor will serve her well as she fills the position of Program Director.
She is excited to be moving to upstate New York and will start in the role September 29, 2025. Natalie’s energy and experience will be invaluable as we continue to focus on growing and strengthening our Rochester/Monroe County program. We are delighted to welcome her to our community.
Amy Church, Advocate Coordinator
Amy Church also joins us September 29, 2025, coming to CASA from The Wayne County DA's Office of Victim Assistance. Prior to that her experiences have been in advocacy with individuals with developmental disabilities. Amy has a long history of volunteering and was a Service Unit manager for the Girl Scouts, recruiting leaders and members of her team.
She is described as compassionate with excellent leadership and communication skills. As she tackles the Advocate Coordinator role for CASA, she will be recruiting more volunteers and doing outreach for our program, as well as supervising our CASA volunteers.
Amy lives outside of Rochester, with her husband, two children and her dog. She enjoys spending time outside gardening, or camping with her family.
Lea Hamasaki, Advocate Supervisor
Lea joined CASA in 2022 after working in a variety of social service roles over the previous 10 years. This work has encompassed a wide variety of sectors from working with teen parents to the chronically unhoused population.
Lea has personal experiences with the world of family court: from her own childhood and adolescence and then as foster/ adoptive parent. These experiences have shown her the need for children and teens to have advocacy throughout the Family Court process.
Lea lives in the city of Rochester with her wife, children, a dog and several cats and is also a grandparent now.
Ashley Trott, Program Assistant
Ashley is our first Program Assistant, joining us in October 2023. Our program is growing and additional administrative support is needed.
Ashley Trott has a degree in Human Services which she is excited to apply to this position. Formerly she worked in the Pharmaceutical industry coordinating clinical trials. She has trained to become an Advocate and will be responsible for supporting recruitment of volunteers and visibility of the program as well administrative tasks.
Outside of CASA, Ashley loves to make memories with her family, work out and travel.
