Chelsea Contrada has been a member of the guild since 2021, and joined the board in 2024. She is an attorney and bar advocate in Hampshire County. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Chelsea was a community college librarian and teacher, where she advocated for affordable and accessible higher education. She is passionate about the Guild’s mission and honored to be a part of this important work.
E. Eden Williams has 30 years’ experience as a community organizer, social worker, and conflict resolution worker in 32 countries. His work focuses on community organizing and organizational effectiveness and evaluation. The NLG-Mass Chapter taught Eden how to fight to win and he now works with the Guild so others can understand the legal system and join the struggle.
For more than 25 years, Jeff Feuer has worked with his law partner, Lee Goldstein in a community-based law firm, representing tenants, employees, political activists, consumers, and non-profit organizations. Jeff has been with the Guild for 35 years, and, as a member of the Board, has served on numerous committees including Coordinator of the Mass Defense Committee. He has provided pro bono legal representation to hundreds of arrested political demonstrators, from the Justice for Janitors campaign to Occupy Boston to the Black Live Matter movement, and to environmental, anti-nuclear, and immigrant rights activists. He has trained Legal Observers, provided Direct Action training for progressive political activists, and conducted numerous landlord-tenant Street Law Clinics.
Besides his family, friends, and the law, Jeff is passionate about music (especially Bruce Springsteen), baseball (he is the commissioner of a fantasy baseball league), and the continuing struggle for a better, more equitable, and just society.
Kylah Clay is a public defender in Boston. She represents protesters and activists through the Mass Defense Committee. She also helps workers organize independent unions through the Independent Organizing Network.
Jeremy DaCruz is a union organizer, business agent, and labor and employment attorney. Towards the end of his time in law school, he was drawn to Guild as a place of community with like minded radical lawyers. As a Guild board member, he hopes to help law students, attorneys, and legal workers find community and mutual support.
Melinda Drew has retired as a full-time faculty member at Northeastern University School of Law. She continues to teach part-time. For many years she was the faculty advisor to the law school’s NLG chapter. A Guild member for more than 35 years and a member of the Mass Defense Committee, Melinda concentrates on training Legal Observers, Legal Observer trainers, and providing Direct Action workshops. Melinda’s commitment to the Guild stems from her understanding that our country does not provide liberty and justice for all but, in fact, deprives many of their basic human rights.
Lee Goldstein is a longtime Guild lawyer, teacher, and activist. Lee has worked to advance the rights of tenants, prisoners, workers, and political groups. He currently practices in a community law office in Cambridge while supervising students at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. For 80 years the Guild has served the movement for justice and equality; Lee knows it will keep fighting for decades to come.
Jasmine Gomez is a Constitutional lawyer and community activist and organizer in Boston. At Free Speech For People, Jasmine works toward getting big money out of politics, ending corporate constitutional rights, and promoting political equality through intersectional organizing on passing a Constitutional Amendment. They also organize and work with the NLG-Mass Chapter to fight for queer and trans liberation, for the decolonization of Puerto Rico, and for racial equity.
Annie Guare is a housing attorney. She primarily represents low-income tenants facing eviction. She also strives to use her practice to curb unethical landlord practices and increase access to affordable housing. She has been a member of the Guild since law school. She is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and began her career in Massachusetts. As of June 2025, she is based in Portland, Maine.
David Kelston first arrived as an NLG client in the 1960s and became an NLG Board member in 2000. His commitment to the Guild is built on its service to the movement for justice and equality. For 80 years the NLG has fought for a more just society where human rights are more valuable than property interests. David knows the Guild will keep fighting until we win.
Mahsa Khanbabai is founder of Khanbabai Immigration Law, a boutique firm focusing on health care workers, employment-based immigration and consular visa processing issues, her dedication for this work stemming from her own J2 to US citizen experience. She is an elected Director of AILA’s Board of Governors, serves on the AILA’s USCIS and Equity Belonging Committees. Mahsa has been a vocal national advocate on issues ranging from the Muslim/Africa Travel Ban, Deferred Action, the Afghan and Palestinian immigration crisis and consular delays. She continues to advocate for clients and reform by engaging with elected officials, agencies, and media sources.
Josh Raisler Cohn is a public defender at the Roxbury Defenders Unit, representing people in Roxbury charged with serious felonies. Co-chair of the Mass Defense Committee, Josh finds inspiration in the Guild’s dedication to fighting oppression and supporting people’s movements for self determination.
Bonnie Tenneriello is a Senior Attorney with Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, where she litigates and advocates for the rights of incarcerated people. She looked to Guild lawyers for inspiration while in law school decades ago, and still finds inspiration in the Guild’s dedication to supporting movements for equality, care and justice.
Being familiar with the work of the Guild already, one of the first things Deb Wilmer did on entering law school was to join. After years as a labor and immigration rights activist, the National Lawyers Guild was an obvious extension of that work. Currently an immigration attorney in Boston, Deb hopes to continue fighting for the rights of marginalized peoples and people’s movements within and outside the Guild for many years to come.
Jeff Petrucelly was a founding member of the NLG-Mass Chapter in the 1960s and has been active ever since. Although retired, he still works pro bono to improve the lives of people suffering from the repressive political and corporate control in this country. Jeff remains committed to the NLG-Mass Chapter because we fight for the civil and human rights of all people, supporting grassroots movements here and abroad in a peaceful and democratic manner.
Jennifer Norris, a proud child of the sixties, is a partner in a women-owned civil law firm. The NLG-Mass Chapter represents all the reasons she became a lawyer and the principles she holds dear. She is honored to be part of an organization that fights for justice, equality, civil rights, and democratic principles.
Urszula Masny-Latos has been Executive Director of the NLG-Mass Chapter since 1996. Her lifetime commitment has been to defend the marginalized and achieve equal rights for all. Urszula’s passion for a better, just world began in her native Poland and has continued through her work with the NLG-Mass Chapter.
Rain E. Ferriter is the Administrative Coordinator for the NLG-Mass Chapter. As a BU Graduate and an artist passionate about justice, they are incredibly excited to support the Chapter in any way possible. Rain has always fought for what is right, with a particular interest in supporting gender diverse individuals and the LGBTQ+ community as well as immigrant groups and marginalized communities in need.
Jon Cubetus is an attorney for the NLG-Mass Chapter’s Litigation Committee. He graduated from Boston College Law School in May 2023. Prior to joining NLG, Jon advocated for low-income tenants as an eviction defense attorney in northeast Massachusetts. He has also had the opportunity to litigate innocence cases, cases involving constitutional questions, and a case before the Supreme Judicial Court. In his free time, Jon enjoys playing with his dog, Relic.
