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Carla Goldstein, JD
Carla Goldstein, JD, is Omega Institute's external affairs director and director of the Women's Institute at Omega. Carla is an attorney with 20 years of experience in public interest advocacy and has worked extensively in city and state government on issues related to women's rights, poverty, public health, and social justice. She has contributed to more than 100 city, state, and federal laws. Carla has appeared on local and national radio and television and makes public presentations to a wide range of audiences on issues related to women's empowerment and activism. Carla serves on the Advisory Board of Feminist.com and was featured at the New York State Bar Association's "Women on the Move: Successful Women in the Know."
Before joining the Omega Institute, Carla was the vice president for public affairs
at Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC), where she directed the agency's
advocacy and strategic communications work. She also served as the founding
director of the PPNYC Action Fund, the political arm of PPNYC. Before joining PPNYC Carla worked for the speaker of the New York City Council, where she helped craft and advocate for the City Council’s state and federal legislative agendas. She joined the council after working as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society, where she represented clients in criminal proceedings. Before that, she worked for the speaker of the New York State Assembly as a policy analyst of human services issues. While in law school at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Carla was a cofounding editor-in-chief of the state's first women's law journal, which just celebrated its 12th year of publication, the Buffalo Women's Journal. For her work with the journal, Carla won the Dale S. Margulis award, which recognizes the student who makes "the most significant contribution to the law school and the community." She was also the First Place Winner of the Desmond Moot Court Competition.
For the past eight years, Carla was an adjunct professor at CUNY Queens College, where she taught a course called Law and Social Justice, which was designed to empower students to be effective advocates for progressive social change. As part of Omega's Core Program, Carla teaches Introduction to Spiritual Activism, a workshop designed to help people develop their activism in creative ways that align with the rest of their lives.
Read "Spiritual Activism" article by Carla Goldstein. |
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