TEAM MEMBERS

M Baker 2020 v1 (1)Meg Baker

Administrative Manager
mbaker@mlpboston.org
(617) 336-7500 ext. 451
 
Meg Baker joined MLPB as the Operations Manager in October 2012. Meg has a long history working with nonprofit organizations dedicated to social change. Prior to joining MLPB, Meg worked at The Access Project (TAP), a nonprofit working to strengthen community action, promote social change, and improve health  especially for those who are most vulnerable. At TAP, she was responsible for the day-to-day operation and management of the office including financial management, administrative staff management and space and facilities management. She has also worked at the Asian American Civic Association (AACA) working with their job training programs, providing case management and job readiness assistance.

2018-J CasselmanJeannine Casselman

Law & Policy Director
jcasselman@mlpboston.org
(617) 336-7500 ext. 453 
 
Attorney Jeannine Casselman is the Legal Director at MLPB. She was previously with the Rhode Island Center for Law and Public Policy and served as the Program Director for the Rhode Island Medical-Legal Partnership from 2011-2016. Ms. Casselman graduated from Roger Williams University School of Law in 2009 where she focused on public interest law. She interned with the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights, South Coastal Counties Legal Services and the Community Mediation Center of Rhode Island. 

Andrea DarlingAndrea Darling

Law & Policy Consultant
adarling@mlpboston.org
(617) 336-7500 ext. 462
 

Andrea Darling is a Legal Advisor at MLPB. Before joining MLPB, Ms. Darling was a member of the private bar representing children and parents in child protection cases in Lowell Juvenile Court. Earlier in her career, she was Assistant General Counsel at Mathematica, a social policy research firm headquartered in Princeton, NJ. Ms. Darling began her legal career as a labor and employment associate at Nutter. She received her law degree from Duke University School of Law and her AB from Dartmouth College.

MarsophiaMarsophia Ducheine

Law & Policy Consultant
mducheine@mlpboston.org
(617) 336-7500 ext. 463
 

Marsophia Ducheine is a Legal Advisor at MLPB. Before joining MLPB, Ms. Ducheine was a public defender at the Committee for Public Counsel Services in the Roxbury Defenders Unit. Ms. Ducheine received her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law. During her time in law school, Ms. Ducheine participated in the Prisoners’ Rights Clinic where she successfully represented her client before the parole board. She also interned at the Public Defender Service in DC, the Federal Public Defender Office in Boston, and at the Committee for Public Counsel Services in the Youth Advocacy Division and the Roxbury Office. Ms. Ducheine received her BS from Suffolk University.

Kate GannonKate Gannon

Law & Policy Consultant
kgannon@mlpboston.org
(617) 336-7500 ext. 457
 
Kate Gannon is a Legal Advisor at MLPB. She previously served as a medical-legal partnership attorney at Community Legal Aid in Worcester and Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, and as a healthcare-based advocate for human trafficking survivors. Building on an undergraduate major in social work, Ms. Gannon graduated from Roger Williams University School of Law where she focused on public interest law. She interned with the Youth Advocacy Division, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, the EdLaw Project, and the Rhode Island Medical-Legal Partnership. 
 

Jeff Gilbert Headshot 2Jeff Gilbert

Partnership & Project Manager
jgilbert@mlpboston.org
(617) 336-7500 ext. 461
 

Jeff Gilbert is the Partnership Manager at MLPB and a long-time champion of sustainable food systems and health equity. He has previously held evaluation and communications roles with Granville-Vance Public Health and the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle in North Carolina, as well as the Somerville-based urban agriculture company Green City Growers. Jeff is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and Lehigh University.


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Samantha Morton

CEO
smorton@mlpboston.org
(617) 336-7500 ext. 455
 
Samantha J. Morton is CEO of MLPB. Ms. Morton is a national expert on the power of justice to advance health, and on the critical role of health ecosystem workforces in partnering with people to meet their health-related social needs (HRSN) and tackling population-level social determinants of health (SDOH) -- all in ways that promote democratization of access to justice and advance health equity for individuals, families and communities. She is leading MLPB's evidence-based integration of legal problem-solving strategies within accountable care, patient-centered medical home, and early childhood sector contexts. In the early childhood domain, Ms. Morton is co-developer of the DULCE intervention published in 2015 and part of the National Team supporting DULCE refinement, spread and scale through the CSSP-convened DULCE Learning Network. Before joining MLPB, Ms. Morton was a litigation associate at Hale & Dorr LLP (now WilmerHale) and a judicial clerk at the United States District Court for the District of Maine. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law and her BA from Cornell University.