Kaisa Goodman (she/her) is a law student at Stanford Law School (JD candidate 2026), where she serves as Co-president of ACS, Managing Editor for the Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and a public interest leader with the Levin Center for Public Service. Her summer internships with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California and the union-side labor law firm McCracken, Stemerman & Holsberry reflect her academic interests in constitutional law, labor law, government, and alternative dispute resolution.
Prior to law school, Kaisa spent a decade in Bloomington, Indiana working and volunteering extensively in local government, politics, and community organizing. She worked for three years with the City of Bloomington, serving as the City’s Public Engagement Director, Mayor’s Chief of Staff, and Special Projects Manager for Economic and Sustainable Development. Prior to that, she managed Mayor John Hamilton’s re-election campaign and served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Monroe County Democratic Party. An experienced campaign manager and independent political consultant, she currently serves as Treasurer for Palo Alto Vice Mayor Vicki Veenker. Kaisa is an ACS Next-Generation Leader and an alumna of Hoosier Women Forward, the Democratic women’s leadership development program in Indiana.
Kaisa’s career is rooted in organized labor—even as a child, she attended the annual Eugene V. Debs dinner in Terre Haute, and she has served on the board of the Debs Foundation since 2014. While an employee at a grocery store co-op in Bloomington, she was a leader in the employees’ successful efforts to unionize and later served as a union steward. Kaisa helped negotiate their initial contract using Interest Based Bargaining, a collaborative and issue-focused approach to negotiations, after becoming certified by the Federal Medication and Conciliation Service in “Interest Based Problem Solving.”
Kaisa, a native Hoosier, is a graduate of Indiana University in Environmental & Sustainability Studies and Political & Civic Engagement.
Gregory (Greg) Rose is the Founder, Secretary and Chief Scientist of Deckard Technologies, Inc., a company that helps local governments equitably enforce real estate related regulations. He holds a B.Sc. (honours) in Computer Science, and was awarded the University Medal in 1977 from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Previously Greg was a Senior Vice President of Qualcomm Technologies, in charge of Product Security and Cryptography. He worked on cryptographic security and authentication for third-generation mobile phones and other technologies and managed other diverse research groups. He is inventor of over 100 patents for cryptographic methods and has successfully cryptanalyzed widely deployed ciphers.
Greg is a current board member, treasurer and past chair of the ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, with experience on a number of other non- and for-profit boards.
Derek Ho is a partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel, & Frederick, PLLC. His litigation practice focuses on representing plaintiffs in high-stakes commercial cases. His litigation efforts have resulted in recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to individuals and businesses nationwide. Among other awards and recognition, Mr. Ho has been named repeatedly by Lawdragon as a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer.
Mr. Ho has an active appellate and Supreme Court practice. He has been counsel in numerous Supreme Court cases, including cases involving union dues (Janus v. AFSCME (2018)); the scope of liability under the False Claims Act (Universal Health Services v. United States ex rel. Escobar (2016)); and the standards for class certification (Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo (2016) and Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans, (2013)).
Mr. Ho’s pro bono practice focuses on civil rights litigation. He has authored amicus briefs in numerous Supreme Court civil rights cases, including Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (defending race conscious admissions in higher education); United States v. Texas, (defending the Obama Administration’s “DAPA Memo” from challenge under the APA); Gloucester County School Bd. v. G.G. (defending the Obama Administration’s policies on transgender students’ rights); and Shelby County v. Holder (defending the constitutionality of § 5 of the Voting Rights Act).
Prior to joining Kellogg Hansen, Mr. Ho clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, and Associate Justice David H. Souter, U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and Harvard College.
He serves on the Board of Trustees of The Roxbury Latin School and on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights Under Law.
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Joyce White Vance is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law.
She served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017. She was nominated for that position by President Barack Obama in May of 2009 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in August of 2009. Professor Vance served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and was the Co-Chair of its Criminal Practice Subcommittee. As U.S. Attorney, she was responsible for overseeing all federal criminal investigations and prosecutions in north Alabama, including matters involving civil rights, national security, cybercrime, public corruption, health care and corporate fraud, violent crime and drug trafficking. She was also responsible for affirmative and defensive civil litigation on behalf of the government and for all federal criminal and civil appeals.
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Gabriella Barbosa is the proud daughter of immigrants and has experience as a teacher, lawyer, policymaker, and advocate, all aimed at centering and improving the outcomes of children from historically marginalized communities in Los Angeles and California. She is currently part of the Los Angeles office of the Ballmer Group, where she supports organizations and leaders in Los Angeles County committed to improving the economic mobility of children and families.
Most recently, she served as managing director of The Children’s Partnership, where she led the development, implementation and supervision of a multi-issue advocacy and policy agenda focused on advancing systemic changes that protect and promote the health and well-being of children from historically marginalized communities. Earlier in her career, she was a public interest attorney at Public Counsel, where she represented English Learner students and children in immigrant families; and a teacher at Los Angeles Unified School District, where she taught high school and adult school in Southeast Los Angeles and South Los Angeles.
She received a B.A. in International Relations and Human Rights from Columbia University and a law degree from Columbia Law School.
