Former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board

Jennifer A. Abruzzo served as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board from 2021 to 2025. She had previously worked for the NLRB for over two decades, including working as field attorney, supervisory attorney, deputy regional attorney, deputy assistant general counsel, and deputy general counsel. Immediately prior to her appointment as general counsel, Abruzzo served as special counsel for strategic initiatives for the Communications Workers of America, where she now serves as Senior Advisor to the President.

As General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, she pursued broad and expansive enforcement of the Act to incorporate college athletes into organizing, declare captive audience meetings and noncompete agreements unlawful, expand remedies for unfair labor practices, and protect certain First Amendment activities under labor law, such as Black Lives Matter advocacy.

Former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice

Kristen Clarke was the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2021 to 2025. In this role, she led the Justice Department’s broad federal civil rights enforcement efforts and worked to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all who live in America. Assistant Attorney General Clarke is a lifelong civil rights lawyer who spent her entire career in public service.

Assistant Attorney General Clarke began her career as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division through the Department of Justice’s Honors Program. In 2006, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where she helped lead the organization’s work in the areas of voting rights and election law across the country. Ms. Clarke worked on cases defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act, presented oral argument to the D.C. District Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, and has provided testimony on federal and state voting rights legislation. In 2011, she was named the head of the Civil Rights Bureau for the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where she led broad civil rights enforcement actions. Under her leadership, the Bureau secured landmark agreements with banks to address unlawful redlining, employers to address barriers to reentry for people with criminal backgrounds, police departments on reforms to policies and practices, major retailers on racial profiling of consumers, landlords on discriminatory housing policies, school districts concerning issues relating to the school-to-prison pipeline and more. In 2015, Ms. Clarke was named the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, one of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations founded at the request of John F. Kennedy. There, she led the organization’s legal work in courts across the country addressing some of the nation’s most complex racial justice and civil rights challenges.

Assistant Attorney General Clarke was born in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall, she received her A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Partner, Edelson PC; Former Litigation Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council

Aaron Colangelo is a Partner at Edelson PC, where his work focuses on redressing environmental harms and protecting public health. Before joining Edelson, Aaron spent two decades litigating environmental cases with the Natural Resources Defense Council. At NRDC, he served as counsel in more than 150 cases involving drinking water contamination, hazardous waste cleanup, air pollution, climate change, and toxics in consumer products, among other environmental and public health matters. Aaron also spent five years as NRDC’s litigation co-director, where he helped lead a team of 40 lawyers and paralegals and oversaw a nationwide litigation docket. He has argued in dozens of federal and state courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and taught environmental litigation for four years as an adjunct professor at the Howard University School of Law.

Senior Director, Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

Lauren-Brooke Eisen directs the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, where she leads the organization’s work to ensure a more fair, humane, and effective justice system.

Eisen is the editor of Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2024) and author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017). Eisen also co-wrote a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution (Oxford University Press, 2021) and contributed a chapter on the criminal justice process in New York State for New York’s Criminal Justice System (Carolina Academic Press, 2019).

Eisen is a member of the Council on Criminal Justice and served on the New York City Bar’s Task Force on Mass Incarceration. She co-chaired Manhattan District Attorney–elect Alvin Bragg’s transition team and served on the transition committee for Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Eisen taught an undergraduate seminar on mass incarceration at Yale University, served as an adjunct instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and taught for the Columbia University Pre-College Program.

Previously, Eisen was a senior program associate at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she worked on the sentencing and corrections team to implement policies in multiple states to improve public safety. She also served as an assistant district attorney in New York City and worked as a beat reporter for a daily newspaper in Laredo, Texas. She holds a BA from Princeton University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Senior Director of Constitutional Litigation, Brady: United Against Gun Violence

Shira Lauren Feldman is the Senior Director of Constitutional Litigation at Brady: United Against Gun Violence, where she leads Brady’s work defending federal, state, and local gun violence prevention measures in court. Before joining Brady, she was a partner in a small law firm in New York, where she litigated class action cases on behalf of marginalized groups. She is a graduate of Columbia University, cum laude and with honors in political science, and New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow. She clerked in the Eastern District of New York for Judge Peggy Kuo and then-Chief Judge Dora L. Irizarry.

Managing Director, Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, Northeastern University School of Law

Renay Frankel is the managing director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC). From 2017-2023, Renay served as the director for public interest and government with Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Co-op and Career Development. As the leader of the public interest team, Renay oversaw professional development programming and career advising for law students pursuing internships and post-graduate jobs in the public sector. Renay also taught Northeastern’s Public Service Externship Course, which combined coursework with part-time externship placements in government agencies or non-profit organizations. She began public interest career advising three years earlier, as the assistant director of Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising. Prior to working in career services, Renay practiced law for eight years in the public sector. She started her legal career as a public defender in Roxbury, MA, with the Committee for Public Counsel Services and also worked as a housing attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services. In 2009, she was the recipient of a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, which led to the creation of a unique position at the Committee for Public Counsel Services to expand the public defender agency’s holistic defense practice and address clients’ civil legal issues. Renay is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and Skidmore College.

Founder, Fiery Run Environmental Strategies; Former General Counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency

Avi Garbow is a nationally recognized environmental leader, lawyer, and advocate with decades of experience tackling many of the most critical threats to our air, water, lands, and communities. As the Founder of Fiery Run Environmental Strategies, Avi draws upon significant experience in the public and private sectors, including service as President of environmental non-profits, General Counsel at EPA (Obama Administration), federal environmental crimes prosecutor (US DOJ), and leader of law firm practice groups.

Professor Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School; Former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board

William B. Gould IV is the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Stanford Law School and has been an influential voice on worker-management relations for over fifty years. He was Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1994-1998) and Chairman of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (2014-2017). He has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1970 and was Independent Monitor for FirstGroup America from 2008-2010. In 2011-2012, he was Special Advisor to the Department of Housing and Urban Development on project labor agreements. Professor Gould is a critically acclaimed author of ten books and more than sixty law review articles.

Founder, Justice Legal Strategies PLLC; Former Chief Counsel at the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights

Jon Greenbaum founded Justice Legal Strategies in 2024 for the purpose of helping the progressive legal community. He is one of the top civil rights and voting rights lawyers in the country, having worked for over 25 years in key positions such as Chief Counsel at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Senior Trial Attorney the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. Jon has litigated some of the most important and complex civil rights cases in this century. Jon also has two decades of experience as a manager of large legal teams and has collaborated closely with a variety of external partners. Jon brings his skills as a litigator, legal thinker, developer and implementer of programs, and manager of people and processes to help progressive legal organizations achieve greater impact through innovative and carefully considered strategies and the ability to create legal teams that thrive.

Co-Director of Litigation at the National Center for Youth Law

David is recognized as a national leading litigator, advocate, and thought leader in civil rights, specializing in education and immigrant rights. He currently serves as the Co-Director of Litigation at the National Center for Youth Law, where he helps guide the organization's litigation strategy to protect the interests and rights of children and youth across the nation.

Previously, David worked in U.S.D.O.J.’s Civil Rights Division where he oversaw work in education and policy. At the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, he spearheaded the organization’s racial justice litigation, policy, and advocacy work in education. There, David served as lead counsel for students defending race-conscious admissions in SFFA v. UNC and
SFFA v. Harvard, where he argued before the Supreme Court. He also championed the organization’s work in combatting state classroom censorship laws.

As former regional counsel at MALDEF, his litigation and policy work assisted in desegregating schools, cultivating English Learner programs, preserving the Texas DREAM Act, and enforcing immigrant rights. This work included arguing on behalf of several low-property wealth school districts and parent-intervenors of underserved schoolchildren in school finance cases before the Supreme Courts of Texas and Colorado, respectively.

Well-published and a frequent speaker at conferences and in media, David graduated from Edgewood H.S. in San Antonio and served in the U.S. Air Force as an air traffic controller. He earned his B.A. from New Mexico State University and his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

Associate Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid, Yale Law School

Miriam F. Ingber joined Yale Law School in 2018 as Associate Dean overseeing the Offices of Admissions and Financial Aid. She was previously the Associate Director of the Public Interest Law Center and Academic Careers Program at New York University School of Law, as well as a professor in NYU Law’s Lawyering and Graduate Lawyering programs. She also previously worked as a senior staff attorney at Children’s Rights, where she litigated civil rights, class-action lawsuits seeking systemic reform of child welfare systems, and as a litigation associate in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP. Ingber is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. As a Yale Law student, she was a Senior Editor on the Yale Law Journal, an Articles Editor on the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, a Coker Fellow, and a member of the Lowenstein Clinic for International Human Rights. Ingber is on the board of Connecticut CASA and served on the board of Manhattan Legal Services (2014-2018).

Principal, J&E Strategy

Katy is a policy strategist and civil rights attorney based in Washington, DC. In addition to her work at J&E Strategy, Katy is a Senior Fellow at the Edley Center on Law & Democracy at the University of California - Berkeley School of Law. She has led national pro-democracy coalitions for public education, LGBTQI+ equality, the separation of religion and government, and nondiscrimination in federally funded programs. Katy was appointed by President Biden to serve in the U.S. Department of Education in 2023, first in the Office of the Secretary and later as Chief of Staff in the Office for Civil Rights.

Senior Director of Chapters, American Constitution Society

Peggy Li serves as the Senior Director of Chapters at the American Constitution Society. She manages the existing network of ACS chapters, facilitating the programming of chapters, working with members to realize their potential for creating a constructive dialogue for change, cultivating and supporting our next generation of progressive leaders, strengthening our progressive network, promoting diversity and inclusion, seeking opportunities to found new ACS chapters, building and maintaining relationships with advisors, and integrating chapter activities and chapter members into ACS’s substantive initiatives and network of members.

Before joining ACS, Li served as a Staff Attorney at Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) working primarily with rural seniors on elder, housing, and public benefits law. Li also served as a coordinator for LSNC’s Race Equity Project conducting research, facilitating monthly calls, spearheading office-wide projects, and providing trainings on framing, implicit bias, and social cognition. She has also been published in the Washington Monthly, the ACS Blog, the Akron Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice.

Li currently serves as the Vice-President for Programs & Operations for the National Filipino American Lawyers Association. She is also a Steering Committee Member for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association's Civil Rights Committee, a Steering Committee Member for the Texas Filipino American Bar, and a Board of Directors Member for the Asian American Bar Association of Houston.

Li earned her B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of California, Los Angeles and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. At Berkeley Law, Li was a William K. Coblentz Civil Rights Endowment Student Research Fellow at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, a Managing Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and the President of the Berkeley Law ACS Student Chapter.

Assistant Dean, Office of Public Interest and Community Service, Georgetown Law

Morgan graduated from Georgetown Law in 2007 and began her legal career as a legal services attorney in DC, supporting survivors of gender-based violence, with specific focus on supporting LGBTQIA*, teen, and immigrant survivors. Morgan became a career advisor at Georgetown Law's Office of Public Interest and Community Service in 2012 and became the office's Assistant Dean in 2020. While with OPICS, Morgan served on the Inclusion Council, completed a certificate in Leadership Coaching, and presented at numerous National Association of Legal Professionals conferences on topics including: Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Students and Attorneys; Trauma-Informed Legal Education; Identity Covering in the Legal Profession; and Post-Graduate Fellowships.

Executive Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, New York City Bar Association

Tanya Martinez-Gallinucci is the Executive Director of the New York City Bar Association’s Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (ODEIB), where she leads initiatives to build a more just and equitable legal profession. A first-generation professional, Tanya is deeply committed to mentorship, systemic change, and expanding access to opportunity.

Before joining the City Bar, Tanya was a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she advanced DEI efforts as a member of the Diversity Advisory Committee and liaison to the Latinx Affinity Group. She also engaged in robust pro bono practice, advocating for immigrant families and students with special needs, and completed an externship at Mobilization for Justice supporting low-income New Yorkers in housing disputes.

Her passion for education and community-building began long before her legal career. A proud graduate of the NYC public school system, Tanya taught middle school in the Bronx and at City College Academy of the Arts in Washington Heights before earning her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She also holds a B.A. from Yale University and a master’s degree from City College.

Tanya’s philosophy on DEIB is rooted in her lived experience: belonging is fostered through community, psychological safety, and the opportunity to show up authentically. A mother of two and breaker of generational curses, she believes justice is a collective effort—one built on healing, solidarity, and the creation of spaces where everyone can thrive.

Education Equity Project Director and Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Foundation of Southern California

Ana Mendoza (she/her) is the Education Equity Project Director and Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, where she leads legal and policy initiatives to protect the rights of K–12 students and expand equitable educational opportunities for historically marginalized youth, including Black, Indigenous, undocumented, disabled, and multilingual students. Her work combines litigation, legislative advocacy, and coalition-building to drive systemic reform in California’s public schools.

Before joining ACLU SoCal, Ana practiced civil rights and employment law at a plaintiff-side firm, representing workers facing discrimination and harassment. She began her career as a youth and community organizer across California, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest, leading local and multi-state initiatives advancing racial and economic justice.

A graduate of UCLA School of Law, where she specialized in Critical Race Studies, Ana has twice received the California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) award for leadership in landmark education equity cases, including a 2025 award for securing systemic reforms benefiting Black students, English learners, and students with disabilities. Her contributions have also been recognized by UCLA Law’s Public Interest Program, the UCLA Latine Law Student Association, and the New Leaders Council of Los Angeles.

Over the past decade, Ana has served in leadership roles within the legal community, including as President of the UCLA Law Alumni Association Board and Vice President of the Mexican American Bar Association. Through the Legal Education Access Pipeline (LEAP) and her blog, Bright New Beginnings, she mentors first-generation students exploring public interest law.

John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor and Lecturer of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Former Executive Director of ACLU-NJ

Udi Ofer is the John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor and Lecturer of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the founding director of the Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic, a first-of-its-kind year-long course that immerses students in the policy advocacy process, and teaches courses and conducts research on civil rights, criminal justice reform, human rights, and public policy advocacy. He brings more than two decades of experience as a civil rights lawyer and policy advocate.

Ofer spent 20 years at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where he helped transform the organization. From 2016 to 2022, he served as the ACLU’s Deputy National Political Director and founding Director of its Justice Division, leading the ACLU’s advocacy on criminal justice reform before Congress, the White House, and state governments. He built the Campaign for Smart Justice, an unprecedented 50-state initiative to end mass incarceration.

Previously, Ofer served as Executive Director of the ACLU of New Jersey, where he led successful policy campaigns to overhaul the state’s cash bail system, legalize marijuana, win in-state tuition for undocumented students, and advance police accountability. Earlier, at the New York Civil Liberties Union, he led campaigns against racial profiling and national security abuses by the NYPD, which led to the creation of the NYPD’s Inspector General’s Office, and co-founded Communities United for Police Reform.

Ofer is a frequent commentator in national media and has testified before Congress and multiple state legislatures. He has published widely in leading law journals and media outlets, and his work and research have been cited by federal and state courts and in more than 150 law review articles. He is a graduate of Fordham Law School and SUNY Buffalo, and the recipient of numerous honors for his contributions to civil rights and constitutional law.

Assistant Dean for Public Service, Harvard Law School

Visiting Professor, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Founder and former Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations. He built the organization into a global institution operating in some 100 countries, with 550 staff members and an annual budget of $100 million. Before that, Roth was a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington.

A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigative and advocacy missions around the world, meeting with dozens of heads of state and countless ministers. He is quoted widely in the media and has written hundreds of articles on a wide range of human rights issues, devoting special attention to the world’s most dire situations, the conduct of war, the foreign policies of the major powers, the work of the United Nations, and the global contest between autocracy and democracy.

Roth’s first book, “Righting Wrongs,” was published by Knopf and Allen Lane in February 2025. It offers an insider’s view of the strategies developed by Human Rights Watch to put pressure on governments to respect human rights, drawing on his years of experience. Debunking the skeptics, it demonstrates with repeated examples how pressure can move even the most powerful and recalcitrant governments.

Associate Dean for Public Service and Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School

Anna Wang is the Associate Dean for Public Service and Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School. Before this role, Anna was the executive director of the Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law at Stanford Law from 2009 to 2023. For most of her career, she has focused on building a robust pipeline to grow the public interest legal community, which includes introducing students to public service careers, connecting students to mentors, helping young lawyers identify professional goals that align with their personal values, and teaching them how to navigate the market.

Anna first joined Stanford Law School in 2004 after three years as the first Executive Director of Vision New America, a nonprofit civic leadership development organization in Silicon Valley. In addition to guiding the organization’s development, she implemented nonpartisan voter education and registration efforts, launched leadership training programs, and developed a highly successful public policy internship program targeting high school and college students.

Anna received her BA with honors from UCLA and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law. She is a member of the California Bar. Anna serves on the Board of Directors of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a nonprofit in San Francisco that works to strengthen and sustain a progressive Asian and Pacific American movement through community organizing and policy advocacy. She previously served as a member and co-chair of the Stanford University Board on Conduct Affairs (previously known as the Board on Judicial Affairs) from 2017-2023.