National Steering Committee
| Davida Brook | President Board Member JD, Stanford Law School, 2010 |
| Andrew Canter | Board Member JD, Stanford Law School, 2008 |
| Michele Dauber | Board member Professor of Law Stanford Law School |
| Jennifer Broxmeyer | East Coast Coordinator Chair, Yale Law Women JD, Yale Law School, 2009 |
Executive Board
Feel free to contact our executive board with specific questions related to their work
| Bitta Jansma | Campus Outreach Director | Bitta Jansma is a second year joint-degree student at Stanford Law and Stanford School of Education. Originally from Orange County, California, she graduated from Claremont Mckenna College in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and French Literature. Before coming to law school, she taught English in Paris for one year and then taught French in an Orange County high school. |  |
| Keisha Stanford | Firm Outreach Director | Keisha N. Stanford, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, graduated Summa cum laude from Emory University in May 2002, majoring in Philosophy and Spanish. Upon graduation, Keisha began working in the Immigration practice group at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in Atlanta. In 2004, she began a graduate program in philosophy at Emory. Continuing to work at Paul Hastings part-time as a Senior Immigration Assistant during her graduate program, Keisha completed her Master of Arts degree in Philosophy in May 2007. In August 2007, Keisha began Stanford Law School, where she is currently Co-President of the Law Association and the Women of Stanford Law. Keisha is also the Western Region Chair of the National Women Law Students’ Organization, the student branch of Ms. JD, a national nonpartisan nonprofit which seeks to improve the experiences of women in law school and the legal profession. |  |
| Jamillah Bowman | Co-director, Research | Jamillah Bowman is a candidate for a joint JD/PHD between Stanford Law School and the Department of Sociology. Broadly speaking, her research examines race and gender inequality in work organizations and the labor market. More specifically, Jamillah is interested in the impact of organizational diversity policies and race/gender composition on power and status dynamics in employment settings. Jamillah received her bachelor's of science in business administration with concentrations in management and social psychology in 2003 from the Georgetown University Mcdonough School of Business. |  |
| Benjamin Jackson | Co-director, Research | Ben Jackson grew up in London, England and Dayton, Ohio. In 2005, he co-founded Rhythm, Rhyme, Results, an educational media company that produces hip-hop music for middle-school students. He holds a AB from Harvard and is currently pursuing a JD/MBA at Stanford. |  |
| Davida Brook | Client Outreach Director | Davida Brook is a second year Stanford Law student from Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Columbia University in 2006 with a B.A. with honors in Urban Studies. Before coming to law school, she worked for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington D.C., where she was responsible for organizing a grassroots campaign that engaged African-American, Hispanic, and Christian college students in pro-Israel political activism. |  |
| Irene Hahn | Publications Director | Irene Hahn is a second year student at Stanford Law School. She is a graduate of Harvard College, and holds masters degrees in English from the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan. Prior to law school she wrote and taught fiction and lived in Korea for a year as a Fulbright Scholar. Currently she is the Co-President of the Asian Pacific Islander Law Students Association at Stanford, where she also dances on the Ballroom Dance Team. Irene is the editor of Building a Better Legal Profession Guide to Law Firms and Law Firm Hiring, which will be released by Kaplan Publishers in January 2009. |  |
| Matthew Schweiger | Communications Director | Matthew Schwieger will graduate from Stanford University with a B.A. in Sociology with Honors in Education this December. A native of Waterloo, IA he has interned for the Governor of Iowa, The Century Foundation, and most recently The College Board, and he has served as a Senior Fellow for the Roosevelt Institution. His interests lie in education law and civil rights. Matthew has been published in the Huffington Post, the Des Moines Register, and Democracy Journal. | |
| Laura Weidman | Development Director | Laura Weidman is a joint degree student at Stanford Law School and Stanford's Graduate School of Business. She has been involved with Building a Better Legal Profession since her 1L year of law school. She spent her 2008 summer as an associate at the New York office of a major international law firm and as an intern to the North American CEO of international ad house Ogilvy & Mather. Laura's background is in education and the arts. Between graduating from Harvard College and enrolling in graduate school, Laura started two organizations, one non-profit arts education organization in West Philadelphia, called CityStep, and one for-profit tutoring company in New York (now in Los Angeles and Seattle), called Overqualified Tutoring. In 2007, she served as Director of Operations for New York's largest community collaboration, Garden in Transit, overseeing 25,000 volunteers to put hand-painted flowers on New York City's yellow cabs. |  |