Congratulations To This Year’s Labor Attorney Award Recipient: Roland N. Goff

Roland has collaborated with the nurses and health care professionals of the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) since 2000. During this period Roland negotiated numerous collective bargaining agreements with local unit committees, assisted in organizing several strikes, represented the MNA as various state and national organizations, and assisted in the pursuit of the MNA legislative agenda – including the yet to be achieved nurse to patient limits required for safe patient care.

Before coming to the MNA, Roland worked as an associate at Schwarzwald, Robiner & Rock, in Cleveland, Ohio, Harlem Legal Services in New York City, and the Office of Management and Budget for the City of New York. Prior to attending law school, Roland spent two years in a volunteer program operated by the Sinsinawa Dominicans. During his first year in the program while in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he operated a shelter for homeless people and worked with the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition (JRLC) lobbying Minnesota legislators on social welfare legislation. During his second year in the program, on the Southside of Chicago, Roland operated a food distribution program for neighborhood residents and coached the St. Basil’s School basketball team.

Roland was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Coyle and Cassidy High School. He received a B.A. in Political Science from Marquette University, a J.D. from Cornell Law School, and a M.P.A. from Columbia University. Help us in congratulating Roland.