Galen is a Workplace Justice Fellow with the Firm and recent graduate from UC Davis School of Law. During law school, Galen served as a head steward for UAW 2865, where he represented student-employees in grievance proceedings and helped secure an over $80,000 settlement from the law school because of the school’s refusal to pay its Legal Research and Writing Program teaching assistants for the work they performed. He was also a policy intern for California Employment Lawyers’ Association and Consumer Reports. Prior to that, he represented low wage workers at the Workers Rights’ Clinic. Additionally, he was a summer law clerk at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, where he investigated prosecutorial misconduct.
Before law school, Galen had the privilege of working with Jeff Adachi while he interned in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. He also professionally poured perfect beers, worked as a paraprofessional for the San Francisco Unified School District, and coached wrestling at June Jordan School for Equity.
