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President
Peter B. Edelman is a professor at Georgetown University Law School and a leading expert on poverty and social welfare law. He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, and worked closely with Senator Robert Kennedy. Professor Edelman served for a time as the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services in the administration of President Clinton.
Vice President
Terrence Lee Hancock works at Senior Citizens’ Legal Services in Santa Cruz, California, where he specializes in litigation involving public benefits. He has expertise in federal court litigation regarding juvenile institutions and government programs intended to benefit poor people. He was at one time Deputy Director at the National Center for Youth Law, and is Past President of NCYL's Board.
Secretary
Christopher Wu is Supervising Attorney for the California Judicial Council Center for Children and the Courts, and Executive Director of the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care. Before joining the Judicial Council, he provided direct representation for child clients, and also served as Managing Attorney and Executive Director, during ten years at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco.
Treasurer
James D. Weill began his public interest career in 1969 at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. From there he went to the Children’s Defense Fund where he served from 1982 to 1997, as Program Director and then as General Counsel. He is now the President of the Food Research & Action Center in Washington, D.C.
Members
Alexander L. Brainerd is a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP in San Francisco, California. A trial lawyer who specializes in commercial litigation and intellectual property, he was formerly the managing partner of Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon in San Francisco. He has extensive experience providing pro bono legal services, including representing minors in juvenile delinquency proceedings in San Francisco.
David E. Brown is the Deputy Director of the District of Columbia Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS). The goal of DYRS is to provide youth involved in the court system the opportunity to become more productive citizens by building on their strengths and the strengths of their families in the least restrictive, most homelike environment consistent with public safety. Prior to joining DYRS, he served as Executive Director of the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC). While at NYEC he was responsible for spearheading policy and advocacy efforts, tracking and informing the implementation and reauthorization of the youth provisions of the Workforce Investment Act, and leading efforts to connect youth workforce development systems to juvenile justice systems.
Annette Carnegie is an attorney with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in Oakland, CA. Prior to that Annette was a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco where she had a diverse commercial litigation practice, and has successfully represented individual and institutional clients in constitutional litigation in state and federal courts. Her pro bono litigation includes cocounseling NCYL’s successful parental consent reproductive rights case, AAP v. Lungren.
Mathea Falco is president of Drug Strategies, a nonprofit research institute in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco that promotes effective approaches to national drug policy. She is associate professor of public health at Weill Medical College/Cornell University in New York City, and former director of health policy at the Department of Public Health of Cornell University Medical College. The author of The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs That Work (1994), Ms. Falco comments frequently on drug policy in the media and in public speeches across the country. She has served as chief counsel and staff director for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee, special assistant to the president of the Drug Abuse Council, and senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has served on the board of overseers of Harvard University, the board of trustees of College, and the national boards of Girl Scouts, U.S.A., Big Brothers of America, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, among others. Ms. Falco is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Yale Law School.
Judith Z. Gold is an attorney at the Public Interest Law Project in Oakland, CA. Prior to that she was of counsel at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. She was a member of the firm’s pro bono committee and managed the small case pro bono program of the firm’s San Francisco office. Her pro bono experience includes handling litigation challenging provisions in the 1996 welfare law that deny Supplemental Security Income disability benefits to legal immigrants. She also specializes in complex multi-party civil litigation.
James W. Head is the Director of Programs for the San Francisco Foundation. Prior to that, he was the President of the National Economic Development and Law Center in Oakland, CA, a position he had held since 1986. He teaches a seminar on Community Economic Development at Hastings Law School in San Francisco. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, serving as Board President in 1997-98.
Dr. Charles E. Irwin is the Director of the National Adolescent Health Information Center, and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. His research has focused on risk-taking behaviors during adolescence, and how clinicians can more effectively identify adolescents who are at risk for engaging in health-compromising behavior. He has served as an advisor to NCYL’s Adolescent Health Care Project since 1984.
John D. MacIntosh is a partner in the law firm Epstein, Burke, and MacIntosh, P.A. in Concord, New Hampshire. He worked for ten years in legal services in New Hampshire, now specializes in class-action litigation, and has, since moving to private practice, devoted a substantial portion of his practice to representing disabled children.
Mary E. McCutcheon is a partner at the San Francisco law firm of Farella, Braun & Martel. Her private practice specializes in insurance issues. She has cocounselled several pro bono cases involving Medicaid benefits for low-income children with the National Center for Youth Law. She served as President of NCYL’s Board from 1997 to 2003.
Héctor Javier Preciado is the Director of Strategic Communications for the Greenlining Institute, a multi-ethnic public policy research and advocacy center located in Berkeley. He manages, develops, and oversees communication strategies for educating policy makers, political figures, the media, and the public at large to influence public policy for the benefit of low-income and minority communities. He is a regular political analyst for Telemundo & Univision and has appeared on local, state, and national newscasts speaking on socio-political issues as they affect the Latino community. He has also served as an analyst during state and national elections. He has contributed to radio and print media, including NPR, La Voz political talk show, and the nationally syndicated Opinion Latina radio show.
Lori A. Schechter, a litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster, represents clients in federal, state, and multi-district class action cases involving antitrust and unfair competition claims, false advertising and privacy, as well as other complex litigation. In addition, Schechter represents clients in investigations and actions brought by government officials, including the FTC, various state Attorneys General, and state District Attorneys. Schechter served as the Chair of the firm’s Litigation Department from 2003 to 2007, and now serves as the Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Schechter was co-counsel with NCYL in the landmark American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren case, in which the California Supreme Court overturned a state statute that would have required teenagers to get their parents’ consent before having an abortion. Schechter was named one of the top female litigators in California in 2007 by the Daily Journal. She is a member of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) Resource Board. Schechter received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1983, and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987.
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