Laurie Barron is the Executive Director of the Feinstein
Institute. She received a B.A. from Yale
University, a J.D. from New York University
School of Law, and an M.S.W. from New York
University School of Social Work.
Her previous work includes
representing children at the Juvenile Rights
Division of the Legal Aid Society in New
York City; working as a public defender
and team leader at the Neighborhood Defender
Service of Harlem; and clinical teaching
in an interdisciplinary Prisoners and Families
Clinic at Columbia Law School, in a School-Based
Legal Services Clinic at Rutgers-Camden
School of Law, and in a Juvenile Rights
Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School.
She directs the Institute
and its Externship Program and teaches the
co-requisite Public Interest Lawyering seminar.
Liz Tobin Tyler is the Director of Public Service and Community Partnerships at the Feinstein Institute. She received a B.A. in Humanities and an M.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. Her previous work includes serving as a Policy Analyst at Rhode Island Kids Count and working as a consulting attorney to community organizations on legal issues involved in lead paint poisoning. She was a public policy fellow at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy, where she also taught Family Law and Policy. She directs the Public Service Program and teaches “Poverty, Health & law: The Medical/Legal Collaborative,” as well as other public interest law courses.
Eliza Vorenberg is the Director of our Pro Bono Collaborative. Eliza is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College (1983) and Columbia Law School (1990) and clerked for Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Herbert P. Wilkins. She has extensive experience in public interest law, the private sector, academia, and conflict resolution.
Her previous experience includes litigating employment and civil rights actions, investigating complaints of discrimination against faculty at UCLA and conducting sexual harassment training for UCLA faculty, mediating and conducting shuttle diplomacy for UCLA's Ombuds Office, and, as staff attorney at the Harriett Buhai Center in South Central Los Angeles, assisting low-income at-risk clients with their pro se family law matters. Prior to law school, Eliza was a housing and benefits advocate at Greater Boston Legal Services where she helped establish a unit focussing on homelessness. In addition, she served as a legislative aide to Massachusetts State Representative David B. Cohen.
She has directed the Pro Bono Collaborative since January, 2006.
Suzanne Harrington-Steppen is the Project Coordinator of our Pro Bono Collaborative. Suzanne received a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College and a J.D. from City University of New York School of Law. Prior to joining the PBC, Suzanne completed a two-year federal clerkship with the Honorable Kevin Nathaniel Fox, United States Magistrate Judge. During law school, Suzanne interned with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project and MFY Legal Services. Prior to law school, Suzanne worked as a policy analyst for the California Food Policy Advocates and as a community organizer for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness.
Jennifer Lashley is the Program Coordinator of the Feinstein Institute. She received a B.A in Fine and Performing Arts with a minor in Arts Management from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She then lived in Misawa, Japan for 2 years with her husband where she worked for Central Texas College in their Pacific Far East Division. Prior to joining the FILS staff Jennifer was the Technical Director for the Historic Paramount Theatre in Abilene, Texas where she coordinated and managed their events. This fall she will be starting the MPA program at RWU.
Laurie Barron 
Eliza Vorenberg 
Suzanne Harrington-Steppen
Jennifer Lashley
