IN THIS ISSUE

Eva Paterson: Vote as If Your Life Depended On It!

EJS Amicus Brief Charges Unlimited Campaign Spending Limits Rights of Communities of Color and the Poor

Stanford Law Review Study on Affirmative Action in Law Schools Marred by Questionable Data

EJS in Hawai'i: Praxis and Pono

Notes on the Right: Voter Participation and the Right

Civil Rights and Campaign Finance: Summaries of Key Law Review Articles

Preserving Access at the University of California

Staff/Board News and Notes

Become a Part of the Equal Justice Society

EJS Calendar

Newsletter Editors:
Elaine Elinson
Joe Lucero

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Staff/Board News and Notes:
EJS Welcomes New Executive Board Members

EJS is pleased to welcome two new members to the Board of Directors - James Brosnahan, Senior Counsel with Morrison & Foerster, and Professor Margaret Russell of the Santa Clara University School of Law.

James Brosnahan is an expert in civil and criminal trial work with a long-standing commitment to the public interest. Brosnahan, a former president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, also served on the Boards of Directors of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the World Affairs Council, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Council of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. In 2003, he was recognized by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the ten best attorneys in San Francisco. For a full biography of James Brosnahan, click here.

Margaret Russell, a founding member of the Equal Justice Society, is a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law where she teaches constitutional law, civil rights and civil liberties. The former Chair of the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Russell also served on the Board of the National ACLU. She currently serves on the Board of the Oakland Museum of California and the American Civil Liberties Union. As a law student at Stanford University, Russell co-founded the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. For a full biography of Margaret Russell, click here.

For a complete listing of the Board of the Equal Justice Society, click here.

New Public Policy Intern

Taina Ivania Gomez, a recent U.C. Berkeley graduate in Latin American Studies and Education, is the new Public Policy Intern at EJS, sponsored by the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA). At EJS, Gomez is assisting with higher education policy research and helping to plan EJS outreach to legislators and other policy organizations.

While at Berkeley, Gomez served as Chair of CalSERVE (Cal Students for Equal Rights and a Valid Education), the oldest progressive multi-ethnic coalition and political party on the U.C. Berkeley campus; she also was a Senator and Executive Vice President of the Associated Students of the University of California.

Gomez has a long history in student and community activism, and has worked on the No on 54 Campaign; No on Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA); Hate Crime Prevention; Freeze Student Fees-Education Not Incarceration; 1999 U.C. Berkeley Ethnic Studies Strike Demands; Coca Cola Corporate Responsibility and other efforts. As part of the Early Academic Outreach program, she tutored and mentored San Francisco middle school and high school youth in San Francisco. Gomez is currently the Assistant Coordinator of the Third World Liberation Center/Cross-Cultural Student Development Office at U.C. Berkeley.

For a complete listing of EJS Staff Members, click here.