Legal Advisors

The Legal Advisors include professors from UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and Yale Law School, as well as private attorneys specializing in local government law.

• Adrian Adams - Adams Kessler, Professional Law Corporation
• Stephen P. Berzon/Linda Lye - Altshuler Berzon LLP
• Maeve Elise Brown - Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA)
• Michael G. Colantuono - Colantuono & Levin, PC
• Robert Perlmutter - Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP
• Stephen D. Sugarman - UC Berkeley School of Law

Community Advisory Board

The Community Advisory Board includes representatives from community organizations and local government, who ensure that TALC is responsive to emerging tobacco control policy needs.

• Serena Chen - American Lung Association of the East Bay 
• Carol D'Onofrio - Evaluation Consultant, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health UC Berkeley 
• Narinder Dhaliwal - California's Clean Air Project (CCAP) 
• Dennis Eckhart - Office of the California Attorney General 
• Tonia Hagaman - California Department of Health Services, Tobacco Control Section 
• Dian Kiser / Theresa Boschert - RESPECT--California's Low Socio-Economic Partnership 
• Nora Manzanilla - Office of the City Attorney, City of Los Angeles 
• Carol McGruder - San Francisco African American Tobacco-Free Project & C.U.S.-Communities Under Siege-Project 
• Joan N. McNamara - Deputy City Attorney, City of San Diego 
• Donna Newton - In The Zone Tobacco-FREE Project 
• Stephen D. Sugarman - UC Berkeley School of Law
• Kimberley Weich Reusché - Center for Tobacco Policy and Organizing
• Liz Williams - American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation