Kaisa Goodman

Law student, Stanford Law School

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.