Linda Galliher, J.D. is Vice President Public Policy for the Bay Area Council.  Galliher is the organizational lead on cybersecurity policy issues such as federal legislative advocacy, threat data sharing and analysis, and cybersecurity education and workforce development.  Galliher’s policy work draws from a strong background as in-house counsel at a classified software design technology company in the defense industry.

Galliher also leads on education policy focusing on statewide systems improvements plus a regional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) alliance collaborating on scaling up effective STEM programming.  Her first career was as a School Psychologist where she assessed student educational needs, designed education programs, consulted with administrators and teachers, and counseled families.

Galliher serves on the Advisory Boards of the San Francisco Alliance and the City College of San Francisco School of Business and sits on the Executive Committee of the Gateways Partnership. Galliher has both a Juris Doctorate and a Masters in Labor and Employment Relations from the University of Illinois and a Masters in School Psychology from Illinois State University.