Heidi Alexander (she/they) is the first Director of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being. Before assuming that role, Heidi served as the Deputy Director of Massachusetts Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, practiced law employment law at a firm in Boston, and clerked for a Justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Heidi has been recognized as a Top Woman of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She is a sought out speaker on topics such as mental health and well-being, as well as time management, productivity, and technology. Heidi is committed to improving mental health and reducing stigma, having served on the board of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Mass, and as the most recent past President of the Institute for Well-Being in Law, whose mission is to transform the legal profession’s approach to well-being. 

She is a native Minnesotan and a lifelong ice hockey player, who can often be found hiking with her miniature schnauzer, Pepper, coaching CrossFit, and trying to keep up with her three kids. 

Dr. Lia Antico, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. She teaches the Neuroscience of Meditation course, and her research focuses on burnout, anxiety, and their neural mechanisms, with particular emphasis on mindfulness-based interventions for well-being at workplace. She is a qualified teacher of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, leads mindfulness practices in both secular and spiritual contexts and explores contemplative practices across various traditions.

Lisa Brathwaite serves as the Assistant Dean, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Boston College Law School, where she leads the collaborative effort of that community to provide a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, dedicated to fostering belonging for all community members. She collaborates with colleagues to support the recruitment, retention, academic and professional development of historically underrepresented populations, consults with faculty on climate matters, works with student organizations and colleagues across the University to develop programming. 

Prior to joining Boston College Law School, Lisa worked at Northeastern University School of Law where she supported the student affinity groups, assisted in managing the school’s signature co-op program, advised the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) and partnered with faculty and staff to support the First Generation Student Group.

Before transitioning to the field of higher education, Lisa worked as a recruiting team member at Choate Hall & Stewart and K&L Gates’ Boston office, where she coordinated and managed summer associate programs and various aspects of fall recruiting, supported entry-level and lateral hiring processes and integration in two offices (under a regional model), supported the Hiring Committees, coordinated firmwide symposium and supported the annual associate review process, among other duties

Laurie Cappello is the Executive Director of the Mindfulness In Law Society (MILS) and Co-Chair of the MILS New England Chapter. Laurie spent most of her career serving in Human Resources Benefits and Well-Being Leadership roles in two AmLaw 100 Firms. She recently retired from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC. Laurie received her Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher training from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

Bernardo G. Cuadra is an Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Chief of the False Claims Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Bernardo is also a member and past Co-Chair of the AGO’s Well-Being Committee and an adjunct professor at New England Law | Boston. Before joining the AGO in 2016, Bernardo was an associate in the Trusts & Estates practice group at Shipman & Goodwin in Hartford, CT, and clerked for the Connecticut Supreme Court. Bernardo is a 2010 graduate from Western New England University School of Law and earned his bachelor’s degree from Boston College.

Laurel Davis graduated from Boston College Law School in 2006 and returned in 2010 to work as a Teaching & Research Librarian after completing her Master’s in Library & Information Science at Simmons University. She teaches Advanced Legal Research and works with the 1L Critical Perspectives course as a facilitator and member of the course’s Task Force. Laurel also serves as the Curator of the Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room. In that capacity, she regularly creates exhibitions and works closely with the legal history faculty to integrate special collections into their courses. She is a member of the Law Librarians of New England, the American Association of Law Libraries, and serves as a faculty advisor to the BC Law LGBTQ+ student group, LAMBDA. 

Kate Eisenberg is the Director of Business Development at Mintz. With over 17 years of legal marketing experience, she oversees all client development efforts across the firm, leading a team of 25 professionals who are situated within the firm’s practice and industry areas. Kate is responsible for business development training efforts firmwide, driving practice and industry strategic planning, supporting brand building and visibility efforts in the firm’s priority areas, and collaborating with legal recruiting leadership on the development and implementation of an industry leading lateral partner integration program. Kate previously served as the Business Development Manager for the firm’s Health Law, Real Estate, and government affairs practices, and spent five years in the firm’s PR department.

Outside of the office, Kate is a Board Member of the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism. She is also a longtime volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, serving on the Massachusetts Board of Directors for many years, including as its Chair from 2020 – 2022.

She lives in Natick, Massachusetts with her wife and two daughters. 

Stephanie J. (Burke) Farne joined Boston College Law School Library as a legal information librarian and a lecturer in law in February 2021. She teaches semester-long courses in advanced legal research. In 2023, she received the Boston College Law School LSA Adjunct Faculty Award.  Before joining BC Law, she was a reference librarian at Babson College, WilmerHale, Boston University School of Law and Harvard Law School. Farne is a member of the Law Librarians of New England and the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a graduate of UMass Amherst, Northeastern University School of  Law and Simmons University.

Dr. Shawn Healy joined LCL in March of 2014 following his work in a private group practice in Cambridge. Shawn serves on the Massachusetts SJC Standing Advisory Committee on Professionalism, as well as on the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Lawyer Well-Being Committee (2020-2022).

Prior to private practice, Shawn worked at May Institute, Inc. for 10 years where he initially completed his pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship. He later became the Clinical Director and finally the Director of Clinical Services and Operations for the Behavioral Health Division of May Institute where he managed two outpatient clinics and four day treatment programs. Shawn graduated from Suffolk University in Boston, MA in 2006 with his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. His dissertation and research interests are in the field of conflict resolution and he has been involved in facilitating many conflict resolution workshops, discussion groups, and mediation and private conflict coaching sessions.

Shawn is a member of the American Psychological Association and of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and is licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a psychologist. Shawn coauthored the book The Full Weight of the Law: How Legal Professionals Can Recognize and Rebound from Depression (ABA publication, 2017 – available in our lending library) with another LCL Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Jeff Fortgang.

Diana Larsen is the Assistant Director for Exhibition Design, Collections Management, and Curatorial Affairs for the McMullen Museum at Boston College. Her responsibilities at the McMullen have been varied, from designing and curating exhibitions to lecturing on various exhibition related topics. Before coming to BC in 2005, Diana worked at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum as a Curatorial Associate in the Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Previously, Diana worked at a number of other museums, including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Canadian Craft Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto. 

Diana's lifetime interest in the arts led her to the University of British Columbia, where she graduated with a concentration in art history and French. Following her graduation, she traveled around Europe, eventually settling in London, where she completed a certificate program at Christie’s (the Christies’ Fine Arts course), and wrote her thesis on English silver. Diana completed her education in art and museum studies with a master’s degree in Museum Exhibition Planning and Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. 

In addition to her education and career in the fine arts, Diana has been a devoted yoga student and practitioner for most of her adult life. She studied and certified at Core Yoga, Boston as well as at Kripalu in western Massachusetts in restorative yoga. She has led faculty and staff classes at both Harvard University and Boston College and has taught private classes for a number of clients for over twenty years. 

Filippa Marullo Anzalone is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Library & Technology Services at Boston College Law School.  Before coming to Boston College in August 2002, Filippa was on the faculty at Northeastern University School of Law for eleven years.  Filippa is both a qualified MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) instructor and a certified Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults (formerly Koru Mindfulness) instructor.  She designed and now teaches a course at BC Law called Mindfulness and Contemplative Practices for Lawyers, which introduces students to the concept of mindfulness in an effort to help them develop the sustainable coping methods necessary for health and success in the legal profession. She also teaches MBSR courses for the larger university community and lectures on the lifelong benefits of mindfulness.

Filippa has been an active member of both law school and university committees.  In her career, she has taught an Art Law Seminar, Semester in Practice, Semester in Practice in Dublin, and Advanced Legal Research, as well as published many articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces.  Filippa has chaired the AALS Section on Libraries, the AALS Committee on Libraries and Technology, and the ALL-SIS Executive Board.  She is also both a former LLNE and ABLL President.  Filippa received an A.B. from Smith College in Art in 1975, a M.S.L.S. from Simmons College Graduate School of Library Science in 1977, and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1985.  

David O’Leary has served as a volunteer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Massachusetts Chapter for 25 years. Starting as emcee of AFSP’s Boston Out of the Darkness Walk, David eventually joined the chapter’s advisory council, then Board of Directors, serving as Board Chair from 2012 – 2019. David lost his cousin, Paul O’Leary to suicide in 1995

Nationally, David serves on AFSP’s Chapter Leadership Council, working with the organization’s chapters nationwide on best practices.

David is also the host of the Morning Magic radio program on Magic 106.7FM in Boston. A Boston-area television and radio veteran, he’s been seen and heard on the air at PBS, WGBH, WBCN, KISS-108, WAAF and WBOS, as well as Public Television’s Channel 2 and Boston’s V-66 for close to 40 years.

David has also narrated thousands of television and radio commercials, audio books, podcasts and corporate and industrial films from his home recording studio. His clients include Fidelity Investments, Aetna, The Air Safety Institute, FedEx, Carbonite, Expedia, The Boston Ballet, MassMutual, Parexel, PBS, Quest Diagnostics, John Hancock, HealthIQ and Sony Pictures Sound.

A native of suburban Boston, David and his wife Kathy live in Framingham, where they’ve raised three wonderful children.