Molly Elkin is a partner in the law firm of Woodley & McGillivary in Washington, D.C., which specializes in representing unions and employees, including employees in class actions and large multi-plaintiff wage and hour litigation. Molly has successfully represented unions and employees in over 100 Fair Labor Standards Act overtime pay cases in court actions as well as in arbitration. She served as lead counsel in Jordan v. IBP, which resulted in a summary judgment decision in favor of the plaintiffs on issues involving donning and doffing and the measure of the compensable workday. Molly serves as the Union- Employee Co-Chair of the ABA’s Labor and Employment Section’s Federal Labor Standards Legislation committee which has jurisdiction over the FLSA.
As a college student at USC in the early 1970s, Mr. Foos helped establish an organization called The Free Store, which gave residents of South Los Angeles free clothes, tableware, plates and other household items. Mr. Foos co-founded Rhino Records in 1973 in a Westwood storefront. In 1996, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich gave Rhino a coveted award for its corporate citizenship.
A hands-on philanthropist, Mr. Foos serves on the board of Chrysalis, which helps to train and employ the long-term unemployed. He also sits on the board of Rock the Classroom, which offers music programs in Los Angeles to inner-city elementary schools, and serves on the board of Jewish Vocational Service, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit job placement and job training organization. He currently serves as CEO of Shout! Factory, a video and music company.
Ms. Macy currently serves as Publications Director at the International Youth Foundation (IYF), where she is in charge of writing and producing IYF’s reports, newsletters and brochures. Deeply committed to giving voice to today’s young people by telling their personal stories, she has traveled extensively around the world to document the impact of IYF initiatives on young lives. Before 2000, Ms. Macy served in the White House as senior speechwriter to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanying her on global trips to promote economic and human development, women’s rights, and democratic institutions. Earlier, she served as a speechwriter for Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmok. During the 1970s and 1980s Ms. Macy worked as a writer and communications specialist with public interest organizations promoting civil liberties, human rights, religious tolerance and government reform, including People for the American Way, Center for National Security Studies, National Public Radio, Institute for Policy Studies and the Indochina Resource Center.
Mr. Niles is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Stanford Law School. After receiving his J.D. in 1991, Mr. Niles clerked for Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He then worked as a litigation associate at the Washington, DC law firm of Hogan and Hartson, until accepting a position in 1994 in the United States Department of Justice, Civil Appellate Staff. In 1998, Mr. Niles accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Law at American University, Washington College of Law. He teaches Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Governmental Liability and Law and Popular Culture. Mr. Niles was promoted to full professor with tenure in 2004, and also became Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in July of that year. In addition to his teaching, scholarly and administrative duties at AU, Mr. Niles currently serves as the Reporter for the Maryland Civil Pattern Jury Instructions, prepared by the Maryland State Bar Association Standing Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions. He has published various scholarly articles and essays on subjects including the Ninth Amendment, federal tort liability, airline security regulation, the first decade of the tenure of Justice Clarence Thomas, and the depiction of law and justice in American popular culture. Mr. Niles was born and currently lives in the Washington metropolitan area. He is married and has two children. He is a member of the Maryland, United States Supreme Court, First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuit bars.
Mr. Salzman is a former president of the Washington Council of Lawyers, and has worked extensively as co-counsel with the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. He is a partner in the firm of Heller, Huron, Chertkof, Lerner, Simon & Salzman, and a 1988 graduate, with honors, of the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Salzman has been litigating employment/civil rights claims in federal and local courts in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia since 1989. He is a member of the District of Columbia, Supreme Court, Maryland and California bars.
Brad is the medical director of the Weeks Clinic for Corrective Medicine and Psychiatry on Whidbey Island off the coast of Seattle. After pursuing research in vitamin D and mineral metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital, he focused on neuropsychiatry and competed a medical internship and psychiatric residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in N.H. For the past 18 years, he has developed “corrective” protocols for people suffering with degenerative diseases such as MS, cancer and all psychiatric illnesses including post-traumatic stress disorder.
He is a director of the International Schizophrenia Foundation and recently founded The Corrective Health Institute – a multi-disciplinary effort committed to developing and promoting effective and cost-effective, non-patented, treatment protocols free from the for-profit influence of Big Pharma.
He is married to his college sweetheart, Laura, and together they watch in amazement and delight as their four daughters grow up and find their places in this world. Beekeeping, poetry, music, sailing and organic gardening are some of his passions.
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