Robert Greenwald
Faculty Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation; Clinical Professor of Law
rgreenwa@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.9125
To contact Professor Greenwald, please email Tam Nguyen at tnguyen@law.harvard.edu
Robert Greenwald is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Faculty Director of the Law School’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. In addition to teaching seminars in health and public health law and policy, for over 25 years Robert has been engaged in state and national research, policy development and advocacy to expand access to high-quality healthcare, reduce health disparities, and promote more equitable and effective healthcare systems.
Robert serves as co-chair of the Chronic Illness & Disability Partnership and the HIV Health Care Access Working Group. From 2000-2006 Robert served as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on AIDS and as co-chair of its Access to Care Sub-committee. Robert has also served as a consultant to the Health Resources Services Administration and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Community Advisory Board.
Emily Broad Leib
Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic; Deputy Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
ebroad@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.5879
To contact Professor Broad Leib, please email Tam Nguyen at tnguyen@law.harvard.edu
Emily M. Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Deputy Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. As founder of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Emily launched the first law school clinic in the nation devoted to providing clients with legal and policy solutions to address the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. Emily focuses her scholarship, teaching, and practice on finding solutions to today’s biggest food system issues. She has published scholarly articles in the Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the Food & Drug Law Journal, and the Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others. She was named to 2016’s list of Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink. The list, released by Fortune and Food & Wine, highlights women who had the most transformative impact in the last year on what the public eats and drinks. Her groundbreaking work on food waste has been covered in such media outlets as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, TIME, Politico, and the Washington Post. Emily has appeared on CBS This Morning, CNN, The Today Show, and MSNBC to discuss the clinic’s efforts to reduce food waste.
Broad Leib founded the Academy of Food Law and Policy, and from 2016-2019, served as Founding Co-Chair of the Academy’s Board of Trustees. She is also the faculty supervisor for the Harvard Mississippi Delta Project and Harvard Food Law Society. Prior to joining the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Emily spent two years in Clarksdale, Mississippi as the Joint Harvard Law School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow, serving as Director of the Delta Directions Consortium. In that role, she worked with community members and outside partners to design and implement programmatic and policy interventions on a range of health and economic issues in the region, with a focus on the food system. Emily received her B.A. in American History from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude. She is a licensed member of the bar of the State of New York.
Esther Akwii
Clinical Fellow, Food Law and Policy Clinic
eakwii@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1413
Esther Akwii joined the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic in September 2020 as a Clinical Fellow.
Before joining the FLPC, Esther worked at the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) at Vermont Law School, where she conducted research on wide-ranging food system topics and taught a course on the law and policy of local food systems.
Esther also worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, and has experience working with farmers on the right to food, land tenure, climate change, and natural resource governance.
Esther received her Master of Laws in Food and Agriculture Law, with distinction from Vermont Law School in 2020. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from Makerere University, and a Diploma in Law (First Class) from the Law Development Centre (UG).
Joseph Beckmann
Clinical Fellow, Food Law and Policy Clinic
jbeckmann@law.harvard.edu, 617.998.0224
Joseph Beckmann joined the Food Law and Policy Clinic in August 2020 as a Clinical Fellow. He received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2011, a Certificate in Entrepreneurship from the Wisconsin School of Business in 2020, and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2020.
Prior to joining the clinic, Joseph provided legal services to start-ups and mid-sized businesses in the food, beverage, and agriculture industries. As a Summer Law Clerk with a leading Food and Beverage-focused law firm in Wisconsin, Joseph helped draft proposed statutory revisions on policies surrounding contract manufacturing of various alcoholic beverages. He also assisted companies in their incorporation as Certified B Corporations and their intellectual property protection. As a Regulatory Affairs Specialist with a Colorado-based CBD manufacturer, Joseph provided critical legal research on the developing regulatory landscape of the cannabusiness industry. Joseph also served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Jesse G. Reyes of the Illinois Court of Appeals.
In law school, Joseph was the President of the Student Bar Association and the Jewish Law Student Association, was the Diversity Committee Chair and a Managing Editor for the Wisconsin Law Review, and was a member of both the Latinx Law Student Association and the Wisconsin Moot Court Team. He also was inducted into the Pro Bono Society with an Award of Distinction. Joseph is a current member of the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association, the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, and the Hispanic National Bar Association. He is a licensed member of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Kevin Costello
Litigation Director; Associate Director, Health Care Access; Clinical Instructor on Law in the Health Law and Policy Clinic
kcostello@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.0901
Kevin Costello is the Senior Associate Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and directs the Center’s litigation efforts. Prior to coming to CHLPI, Kevin was in private practice for eight years, most recently as a principal at Klein Kavanagh Costello, LLP. Kevin’s practice involved complex litigation in the fields of housing, health care, civil rights, antitrust and consumer law. He has been appointed by federal courts across the country to represent classes in Multi-District Litigation, as well as in nationwide class action litigation. Kevin has brought lawsuits against major banks for broken promises arising from the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program, challenged the broadcast blackout restrictions of Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and fought against the practices of law firms and banks in Massachusetts that improperly foreclosed on financially vulnerable homeowners. Kevin was also part of the team that litigated a series of cases uncovering systemic racial discrimination in the mortgage lending field. Prior to entering private practice, Kevin was a staff attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, helping seniors navigate the health care system. In this role, he fought to ensure that his low-income clients were treated fairly in the roll-out of the Medicare prescription drug benefit and litigated to enforce their rights in various public benefit and health care systems.
Mr. Costello is an honors graduate of both Boston College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He served as law clerk to both the Hon. Joseph H. Rodriguez of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Hon. Francis X. Spina of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Suzanne Davies
Clinical Fellow, Health Law and Policy Clinic
sudavies@law.harvard.edu, 617.384.0118
Suzanne joined the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation in September 2021 as a Clinical Fellow in the Health Law and Policy Clinic. She received her JD in 2020 from Boston University. While still in law school, Suzanne worked on health and disability issues with the New York City Department of Social Services, AARP Foundation Litigation, and Health Law Advocates. As a law student, Suzanne was Co-President of BU Law’s Outlaw chapter, and a founding member of BU Disability Law Advocates and Allies. Prior to joining the Center, Suzanne was a trial court law clerk for the Vermont Judiciary. Suzanne also holds a BA in Music from Columbia University.
Associate Director, Whole Person Care and Clinical Instructor on Law in the Health Law and Policy Clinic
sdowner@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1372
Sarah Downer is a Clinical Instructor at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School and directs the Center’s Whole Person Care Initiative, which seeks to improve care for underserved individuals at every point of interaction with the healthcare system. She works with clients and partners to nurture innovations in healthcare delivery and financing, scale successful interventions, convene powerful coalitions, translate emerging research into comprehensive and compelling resources for policy-makers, and to explore the short and long-term implications of healthcare trends. Ms. Downer also leads the Center’s Social Determinants of Health Law Lab, a special project dedicated to analyzing novel legal issues that arise when the healthcare system interacts with patients in new ways. Ms. Downer has a BA from Harvard College and JD from Harvard Law School.
Kat Eutsler
Senior Finance and Grants Administrator
keutsler@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.2894
Kat joined the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School in May 2014 as the Development Consultant and is now the Senior Finance and Grants Administrator. Kat graduated in May 2014 with a Masters of Science degree from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, focusing on Food Policy and Applied Nutrition and specializing in Economics and Politics of Food and Agriculture. During graduate school, Kat interned at CHLPI working on food law and policy issues. She was a contributing author for two of CHLPI’s pinnacle food policy toolkits.
Before graduate school, Kat was Director of Sales for her family business in Philadelphia, PA, a food brokerage company, where she managed 1 of the 5 wholesale manufacturers that the company represents and fostered new connections, resulting in significant growth of the business. She is experienced in successfully managing hundreds of buyer accounts, along with cultivating new relationships.
In both Philadelphia and Boston, Kat actively volunteered at several community-based nonprofit organizations that focus on issues surrounding nutrition, food, farming, justice, and health. It was through her years of volunteer work that she became interested in development work and funding strategies for nonprofit organizations. Using her background in sales and her passion and expertise in food and health policy issues, Kat collaborates with the Center’s directors, clinical instructors, and fellows to secure financial support for the Center and to foster positive, long-term relationships with foundations, corporations, individual donors, and government agencies.
Katie Garfield
Clinical Instructor in the Health Law and Policy Clinic
kgarfield@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1496
Katie is a Clinical Instructor at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School. Katie joined the Center in 2014 and currently focuses her work on the Center’s whole-person care initiatives, including the Center’s Food is Medicine project. In her work on these initiatives, she has had the opportunity to work with community-based organizations, state agencies, health care providers, and coalitions to develop strategies to increase access to innovative services such as Food is Medicine interventions. Prior to joining the Center, Katie was an associate at Ropes & Gray LLP. She is a licensed member of the Massachusetts Bar.
Julia Harvey
Clinical Fellow, Health Law and Policy Clinic
jharvey@law.harvard.edu, 617.495.5716
Julia Harvey joined the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation in 2021 as a Clinical Fellow on the Health Care Access Team. Julia graduated from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. During law school, she worked with a number organizations and offices focused on improving access to health care and addressing systemic inequalities, including the Medicare Rights Center in New York, Health Law Advocates in Boston, the New York State Office of the Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau, and the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She also chaired NYU’s HIV Law Society. Prior to law school, Julia served as a Policy Analyst at MassHealth, focused on developing and implementing Massachusetts’ landmark Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program for Medicaid members. Julia holds a B.A. in Public Health from Brown University.
Laura Johnston
Administrative Director
ljohnston@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1550
Laura Johnston joined the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation in August 2012 and supports the Center’s clinics, policy research, communications, and community outreach projects. Laura previously worked at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, a Harvard university-wide center for research and practice, where she contributed to the Center’s international research and managed the Center’s communications and student engagement programs. She was also an ombudsman for the Harvard Kennedy School and trained by the International Ombudsman Association. Earlier in her career she built potable water systems and latrines in the rural highlands of Bolivia as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and supported social entrepreneurs around the world in both the Andean Region office and international headquarters of the organization Ashoka. Laura received B.A. degrees in Spanish and Psychology from Tufts University and an Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rachel Landauer
Clinical Instructor, Health Law and Policy Clinic
rlandauer@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.5752
Rachel joined the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation in July 2018 as a Clinical Fellow in the Health Law and Policy Clinic.
Rachel graduated from UCLA School of Law in May 2016 as a member of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, and with a Master of Public Health degree from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. During law school, she worked with projects and organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project, the National Health Law Program, and the Los Angeles HIV Law & Policy Project, and co-chaired UCLA’s Health Law Society. Immediately prior to joining the Center, Rachel was an associate at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, focusing on health care regulatory and compliance matters.
Erin McCrady
Clinical Fellow, Health Law and Policy Clinic
emccrady@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1735
Erin McCrady joined the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation in 2021 as a Clinical Fellow with the Whole Person Care Team. Erin received an Honors Bachelor of Social Sciences in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from the University of Ottawa in 2015, and a J.D. with a concentration in Poverty Law and Economic Justice from Northeastern University School of Law in 2021. During law school, she worked with several organizations devoted to expanding housing and healthcare access in the Greater Boston Area. She also worked extensively with Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. Prior to law school, Erin worked in Cultural Heritage Policy for Parks Canada.
Regan Plekenpol
Program Coordinator in the Food Law and Policy Clinic
rplekenpol@law.harvard.edu
Regan J. Plekenpol joined the Food Law and Policy Clinic in 2021 as a Program Coordinator after long-term work with the team as a graduate student research assistant. Her portfolio currently focuses on international and domestic food waste mitigation and food donation policy. She is passionate about the intersection of food systems and the environment, with a keen interest in improving access to nutritious and sustainable food sources.
Regan received her B.A. in Government (Public Policy) and Human Centered Design from Dartmouth College in 2017 and graduated with an MPH in Nutrition from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2021. She is also a NBME-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), specializing in functional integrative nutrition.
Amy Rosenberg
Senior Clinical Instructor in the Health Law and Policy Clinic
arosenbe@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.5980
Amy Rosenberg is currently Associate Director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, a neighborhood legal aid office that is also a teaching clinic for law students. She has worked on HIV-related issues since 1991, directly representing clients in disability, insurance, estate planning and guardianship matters, as well advocating on systems-level law and policy issues that affect people living with HIV/AIDS. From 1995-2001, Amy was the senior policy and legal analyst at AIDS Action Committee in Boston, New England’s largest AIDS service organization. She then worked as an independent consultant for a number of clients, including state and federal agencies, universities, and non-profits. Amy graduated from Harvard College in 1986 and from Harvard Law School in 1993.
Nathan Rosenberg
Visiting scholar at the Food Law and Policy Clinic
nrosenberg@law.harvard.edu
Nathan A. Rosenberg is a visiting scholar at the Food Law and Policy Clinic and a consulting attorney for Earthjustice. Nathan has taught agricultural law and policy at the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Arkansas School of Law, and the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He has also worked as a legal fellow for the Natural Resources Defense Council and as director of the Delta Directions Consortium.
Kyra Sanborn
Advancement Officer, Press and Media Contact
ksanborn@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1507
Kyra joined the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation as an Advancement Consultant in August 2019. Currently serving as Advancement Officer, Kyra supports the Center’s development and strategic communication efforts, including all press and media requests.
Prior to joining the Center, Kyra served as Grants Administrator for Philadelphia Health Partnership (PHP), a foundation focused on increasing health equity and addressing the social determinants of health through the integration and coordination of care and services. At PHP, Kyra managed the grantmaking process, assisted with the development and launch of a five-year strategic plan, and supported communication efforts both internally and externally. Kyra has worked with several other organizations in various capacities, including as a grant report writer for Keystone Development Partnership’s union apprenticeship programs, as a volunteer for National Street Service’s efforts to make streets more human-centered, and as a foreign English teacher at schools in Thailand, Vietnam, and Colombia. Kyra received her B.A. in Communications from Temple University, and a certificate in ascending leadership from Bryn Mawr’s Graduate College of Social Work and Social Research.
Emma Scott
Clinical Instructor in the Food Law and Policy Clinic
escott@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1641
Emma Scott joined the Food Law and Policy Clinic in August 2019 as a Clinical Instructor. Her work currently focuses on FLPC’s Sustainable and Equitable Food Production Initiative and the Clinic’s ongoing projects in the Mississippi Delta.
Prior to joining FLPC, Emma served as a Justice Catalyst Fellow at California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation in the Labor and Civil Rights Litigation Unit. At CRLAF, Emma’s practice focused on group representation of workers from immigrant communities in employment and labor litigation, with an emphasis on farmworkers and the H-2A visa program. Emma got to know FLPC as an HLS student through the Food Law and Policy Seminar, attending FLPC sponsored conferences, and serving as a Research Assistant to Prof. Emily Broad Leib. Emma received her B.S. in Social Sciences, with a concentration in Cross-Cultural Studies and International Development, from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in 2010. She graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 2016. She then served as a law clerk to the Hon. John A. Mendez of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California from September 2016 to August 2018, assuming the position and responsibilities of Senior Law Clerk in her second year. She is a licensed member of the California Bar.
Kristin Sukys
Policy Analyst in the Health Law and Policy Clinic
ksukys@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1697
Kristin joined the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School as Project Consultant in August 2018 leading the GIS analysis for the Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan and is currently a Policy Analyst working on HLPC’s whole-person care initiatives.
Kristin graduated in May 2018 with a Masters of Science degree in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Specializing in community food systems and public health, her work focused on the intersection of our health care and food systems. Prior to graduate school, she received a B.A. in International Relations specializing in Environmental Issues from Virginia Tech.
Maryanne Tomazic
Clinical Instructor in the Health Law and Policy Clinic
mtomazic@law.harvard.edu, 617.496.1668
Maryanne Tomazic (she/her) is a clinical instructor at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School. She is a public health lawyer, with a focus on health care policy, private health insurance, health care nondiscrimination, and access to gender-affirming and sexual/reproductive health care. Prior to law school, Maryanne worked at the intersection of health care reform and reproductive justice at Raising Women’s Voices (Community Catalyst), served as an elected official on a board of education, and volunteered as an emergency medical technician for many years. Her work is also informed by her experience growing up with immigrant family and her academic training at Boston University School of Law (Health Law), Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health (History and Ethics of Public Health), and Swarthmore College (Biology). She is licensed in New York.