Legal Team Co-Lead

Brianne Schell, JD, MA, is an attorney with a background in public health and policy. Brianne serves as co-Legal Team Lead with LSSC, where she supports partners' efforts to fight abusive preemption through collaboration and legal technical assistance including legislative tracking and legal research and writing. She has experience supporting state and local governments and advocates seeking to protect public health and advance health equity through policy in areas such as affordable housing, substance use, data collection and privacy, women's health, and more. Brianne earned her B.S. in Public Health, M.A. in Public Policy and Management, and J.D from The Ohio State University.

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Legal Team Co-Lead

Leslie Zellers, JD, is an attorney with more than 20 years of experience in public health law and policy for nonprofit and government organizations. Leslie serves as Legal Team Co-Lead with LSSC, where she supports partners' efforts to fight abusive preemption through collaboration and legal technical assistance, including legislative tracking and legal research and writing. In addition to her work to counter abusive preemption, Leslie works to advance public health and wellbeing through legal and policy advocacy in areas such as defending public health authority, tobacco control, cannabis regulation, and disaggregation of public health data. Leslie holds a BA from University of California at Berkeley, and a JD from UC Hastings College of the Law.

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Public Rights Project

Michael Adame is an attorney with a background in federal, state, and local regulatory regimes and public policy. In addition to his PRP portfolio, he works alongside the Local Solutions Support Center's legal team and its efforts to support local democracy and combat abusive preemption. Prior to joining PRP, Michael worked on the 2020 campaign to elect President Joe Biden.

Michael graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and cum laude from Columbia University.

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A Better Balance

Jared Make, Vice President of A Better Balance, is proud to partner with the Local Solutions Support Center.

A member of ABB’s staff since 2010, Jared has worked with advocates and coalitions to draft and pass dozens of state and local laws that guarantee paid sick time and paid family and medical leave. In 2014, Jared co-founded ABB’s LGBTQ Rights Project to advocate for the rights of LGBTQ workers, raise awareness about the diversity of family
structures, and enact workplace policies that cover a range of caregiving relationships. Jared also helped to launch ABB’s Defending Local Democracy Project, part of a nationwide effort coordinated by the Local Solutions Support Center, to strengthen, protect, and defend
progressive, local laws.

Jared graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and cum laude from NYU School of Law.

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Fordham University School of Law and Urban Law Center

Nestor Davidson joined Fordham in 2011 and was named the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law in 2017. Professor Davidson is an expert in property, urban law, and affordable housing law and policy, and is the co-author of the casebook Property Law: Rules, Policies and Practices (7th ed. 2017). Professor Davidson founded and serves as the faculty director of the law school’s Urban Law Center and previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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