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Stanford Law School, Room 280B
Join us for a conversation with three lawyers pursuing social change at the local and state levels: Tanya Broder, Senior Staff Attorney at the National Immigration Law Center; Greta Hansen, Santa Clara County Counsel’s office; and Matt Goldberg, San Francisco City Attorney’s office.
Tanya Broder directs the state and local policy work at NILC. She specializes in the laws and policies affecting access to health care, public benefits and education for low-income immigrants across the United States. She writes articles and policy analyses, provides technical assistance, co-counsels on litigation, and presents trainings to legal and social service providers, government agencies, legislative staff, and community-based organizations. Before joining NILC in 1996, she worked as a policy analyst for the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights and as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County in Oakland. Ms. Broder holds a juris doctor degree from Yale Law School.
Matt Goldberg is a Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office. He serves on the Complex & Affirmative Litigation Team, and is a member of the Office’s Affirmative Litigation Task Force. In these capacities, he primarily litigates consumer protection actions on behalf of the People of the State of California. Previously, he was a Staff Attorney and Director of the Wage-and-Hour Project at the Legal Aid Society, and he helped oversee enforcement of San Francisco’s worker protection laws with the City’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement. He received his JD from UC Hastings College of the Law, and earned a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Greta Hansen is the Chief Assistant County Counsel, overseeing a wide array of projects and initiatives for the County Counsel’s Office including attorney hiring, training, and mentoring. Greta’s practice focuses on public policy and litigation seeking to advance the County’s goal of securing social and economic justice for all of its residents. Greta has been one of the lead public lawyers in People v. Atlantic Richfield Co., a case that resulted in a $1.15 billion judgment dedicated to the abatement of lead paint, which continues to poison thousands of low-income children in California each year. For her work on that case, she was named one of the 2014 Trial Lawyers of the Year by Public Justice. In 2009, Greta successfully sued the State to preserve tens of millions of dollars in funding for mental health services for emotionally disturbed children within Santa Clara County. She has also been the lead attorney for the County in lawsuits against various drug manufacturers, and she played a pivotal role in negotiating a $5.6 million dollar settlement on behalf of the County Health & Hospital System to resolve a dispute with its pharmaceutical wholesaler. Greta was Counsel of Record and the primary author of the amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by major municipalities within the U.S. (New York, D.C., San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, etc.) challenging Arizona’s anti-immigrant laws. She has also lead a wide array of policy initiatives, including the County’s two Pay for Success initiatives and a partnership with the Obama Administration’s Office of Social Innovation. Greta is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford Law School and Stanford Business School, and helped establish a partnership with Stanford Law School and Stanford Medical School under which students develop legislative and policy initiatives to advance the wellbeing of County residents. She has also served as counsel to the County’s Behavioral Health Services Department; Office of Supportive Housing; Office of Data Oversight Management and Evaluation; Human Trafficking Commission; Juvenile Justice Commission; and County Office of Education. In 2016, Greta received the New Leaders Council of Silicon Valley Trailblazer of the Year Award.