“I am a senior staff attorney and program director at ChangeLab Solutions in Oakland. ChangeLab Solutions is a national nonprofit located in Oakland, California. We are a public health policy organization, and we work with communities to help them achieve their public health goals and to advance health equity. My work runs the gamut from addressing unhealthy food marketing and the proliferation of sugary drinks, to ensuring that preemption isn’t used in a way that is damaging to local communities, to improving policy for very young children and families. I love the dynamic nature of the work and the wide-ranging subjects on which I’m able to engage.”

– Sabrina Adler, JD ’08, Senior Staff Attorney and Program Director, ChangeLab Solutions

“I am a program officer and attorney at Resources Legacy Fund, a nonprofit that works with philanthropy, other nonprofits, and government to advance land, ocean, and freshwater conservation. I work with a diverse array of colleagues and partners to develop and implement policy campaigns, organize coalitions, and manage portfolios of conservation projects through grants and contracts. From day to day I encounter interesting challenges – requiring a corresponding mix of skills – in law, policy, politics, and communications.”

– Matt Armsby, JD ’08, Program Officer and Attorney, Resources Legacy Fund

Jessa Barnard is the Executive Director of the Vermont Medical Society. In this role, she serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of a 2000 physician and physician assistant non-profit membership organization and represents the interests of the members and their patients before the Vermont General Assembly, governor’s administration, and regulatory and public policy boards. From 2016 to 2017 she served as the Medical Society’s General Counsel and Vice President for Policy before being named Executive Director in 2017.

– Jessa Barnard, JD ’08, Executive Director, Vermont Medical Society

“I’ve been at the California Department of Justice for nearly a decade now, first in the Environment Section and now in the Civil Rights Enforcement Section. My work varies widely but tends to be either appellate litigation (often alongside NGOs as co-litigants or as amici with other states) or policy/investigation-oriented, in line with the AG’s statutory role as chief law enforcement officer of the State. I previously worked for several years at a legal aid organization, and generally remain focused on issues affecting low-income folks, especially youth, and on protecting the rights of LGBTQI+ folks, both within and outside California.”

– Brian Bilford, JD ’08, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the California Attorney General

“I’m the third-in-command at the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, where I oversee all matters relating to affirmative civil litigation, civil rights, consumer protection, and Atlantic City gambling. I advise the Attorney General on a range of issues, both legal (enforcement, litigation strategy) and non-legal (policy, media, legislative, operations).”

– Andrew Bruck, JD ’08, Executive Assistant Attorney General, Office of the New Jersey Attorney General

“I’m a congressional investigations lawyer in Washington, DC. I’ve been on both sides of those investigations: both conducting them—such as for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where I managed the Trump-Russia investigation, or for House Select Subcommittee for the Coronavirus Crisis, where I managed the investigations into waste, fraud, and abuse in pandemic relief programs—and defending against them, like in my work as Special Counsel at the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser. I love this work as it puts me squarely in the intersection of law and politics.”

– Molly Claflin, JD ’08

“I am senior counsel at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, a private firm in San Francisco. My practice primarily consists of class action litigation to protect the constitutional and statutory rights of prisoners in California prisons and jails. I also work on individual and class action employment matters, as well as a variety of commercial disputes.”

– Michael Freedman, JD ’08, Senior Counsel, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP

“As an executive-level social justice leader and nationally recognized youth policy expert I work to advance equity and amplify community power. From 2015-2023 I served as Executive Director of the National Center for Youth Law, a civil rights law firm that advances justice by dismantling systemic inequities and building more just policies, practices, and cultures in partnership with young people. I have worked to transform the U.S. education, child welfare, juvenile justice, health, and immigration systems. All of my work is aimed at advancing racial justice and shifting power to marginalized communities.”

– Jesse Hahnel, JD ’08

“I am the U.S. Litigation Director at the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), a legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. I manage a team dedicated to bringing cases in U.S. courts and advancing integrated advocacy to improve humanitarian pathways to the United States for displaced people around the world.”

– Mariko Hirose, JD ’08, Litigation Director, International Refugee Assistance Project

“I’m an attorney at the Prison Law Office in Berkeley. We represent incarcerated people and try to reduce some of the suffering that goes on behind bars. Before that, I was a public defender in New York City and a law clerk in the Southern District of New York. I started my legal career as Stanford’s first post-graduate public interest fellow and completed my fellowship at the public defender in my hometown of New Orleans. I have been lucky to follow this path — I started law school without a clear vision of the kind of lawyer that I wanted to be and It’s a profound privilege to work for people trapped in some of the worst excesses of America’s deeply-flawed criminal legal system.”

– Thomas Nosewicz, JD ’08, Attorney, Prison Law Office

“I am a partner at the civil rights firm Katz, Marshall and Banks, LLP, where I practice employment and whistleblower law. I represent whistleblowers and plaintiffs nationally, both at the litigation and pre-litigation stages. The focus of my practice is representing whistleblowers in a broad range of areas including financial, cybersecurity, healthcare, and other industries. I also represent employees with discrimination claims, particularly sexual harassment and discrimination claims. As part of my whistleblower practice, I represent clients pursuing qui tam claims under the False Claims Act and who have submitted whistleblower tips to the SEC under the Dodd-Frank SEC whistleblower program. I joined my firm directly out of law school as a litigation fellow.”

– Alexis (Rickher) Ronickher, JD ’08, Partner, Katz, Marshall and Banks, LLP