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San Francisco, California
Heather Robert Coffman is a Deportation Defense fellow at Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP. She earned a juris doctorate and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy through a joint program of the University of California Hastings College of the Law and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, in 2004. She graduated from Tufts University in 1997 with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and French Literature, and pursued a program of study in Peace and Justice Studies. Ms. Coffman joined Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP in June of 2006 with a background in international human rights, conflict resolution and federal and state litigation. Ms. Coffman practiced civil rights litigation and education law in the Bay Area from 2005 to 2006, and served as a summer law clerk at the Firm in 2003. Prior to graduate school, she was a staff member of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (now Association for Conflict Resolution), where she served as a program coordinator and manager of the initiative for young mediators. Ms. Coffman currently serves as co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Bay Area Chapter's Immigration Committee. She speaks French and Spanish.
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