Access to Justice

Section Leadership

Isabel Sara Raskin

Raskin is a practitioner in residence at Suffolk University Law School's Education Advocacy Clinic, a program she developed that supervises law students representing indigent clients in both school discipline and special education hearings. She received a Harvard Pilgrim Community Spirit 9/11 grant and was honored with the Boston Bar Association John G. Brooks Award for outstanding advocacy for legal aid clients. The Cambridge is a member of the Boston Public School's Code of Conduct Advisory Council and the Education Law Task Force. She previously sat on the Boston Public Schools' Special Education Advisory Council.

Susan G. Anderson

Anderson, a Wellesley resident, is an advisor to the Office of the State Treasurer. A past consultant to not-for-profit agencies through Community Action Partners, Anderson began her career in legal services and has also served as general counsel to the Executive Office of Elder Affairs and as senior counsel at the Division of Insurance. A former chair of the MBA's Access to Justice Section Council, Anderson served as co-chair of the Health Law Section Council, as a member of the MBA Task Force on the Definition of the Practice of Law and on the Presidential Task Force on the Preservation of Rights, Liberties and Access to Justice. She has also regularly served as a judge in the MBA's Mock Trial Program and as a Massachusetts Bar Foundation grant evaluator. Anderson previously served on the Women's Bar Association Board of Directors and currently is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Women's Bar Foundation Elder Law Project. In addition, she was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Kennedy School New England Alumni Association.