Mr. Odland joined A Better Childhood as a Staff Attorney in 2025. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2023. During law school, he was a summer associate at Dechert LLP and interned at the Center for Educational Equity, the Education Law Center, and the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General. After graduation, he was a Legal Fellow at the Social Justice Legal Foundation in Los Angeles, California, where he litigated cases involving police misconduct and class action lawsuits challenging the conditions of confinement in immigration detention.  

 Prior to law school, Mr. Odland taught English as a Fulbright grantee in the Czech Republic. 

 Mr. Odland is admitted to practice law in California; he is not admitted to practice in New York.