David Goldberg is the education counsel for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), a coalition of nearly 200 national organizations committed to the enactment and enforcement of strong federal civil rights and social justice legislation. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Goldberg worked for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary as special counsel for civil rights to Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. As special counsel, Mr. Goldberg worked on a wide range of civil rights issues, including affirmative action, criminal law, health care, and education. From 1994 to 1999, he served as civil rights counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), working on the Congressional reauthorization of the department’s affirmative action authority, rewriting the DOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, and coordinating enforcement of Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mr. Goldberg is a graduate of Boston College Law School and holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Stanford University.