KATRINA ANDERSON is a Litigation Fellow in the Domestic Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. She joined the Center after earning her LL.M. degree in international law, with a specialization in the Protection of International Human Rights, from American University. As a fellow for the War Crimes Research Office, she conducted research and analysis for prosecutors and judges serving on international criminal tribunals. Prior to that, she served as a legal advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, where she trained Cambodian advocates in international criminal and human rights law and helped develop methodologies to document gender-based violence in anticipation of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. For over two years she worked to promote the rights of refugee and migrant women on the Thai-Burma border, particularly the reproductive rights of agricultural workers and the rights of sex workers. She graduated from Seattle University School of Law in 2004 and from the University of Virginia in 1997 with a B.A. in English.
LUISA CABAL is the Director of the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she leads the Center’s legal advocacy efforts in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. In her nine years at the Center, Luisa has pioneered the Center’s first international litigation efforts, filing cases before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. She also designed and co-coordinated the first comparative study in Latin America on women’s rights jurisprudence of the region’s highest level courts. She is co-founder of Red Alas, a network of Latin American law professors who are integrating a gender perspective and women’s rights into law school curricula in the region. Luisa received her law degree from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and her Master of Laws from Columbia University School of Law.
JANET CREPPS is a Deputy Director in the Domestic Legal Program. Ms. Crepps' litigation has included fighting bans on "partial-birth" abortion, parental consent requirements, and TRAP regulations. In addition, she has done extensive policy work in the area of reproductive rights through the Center's state program and Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining the Center in 1992, Ms. Crepps was a consultant for the Reproductive Freedom Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho. She has also served as an Assistant Public Defender in Anchorage, Alaska, and has worked in private practice. Following her graduation from the University of Washington Law School, she clerked for the Honorable James Singleton of the Alaska Court of Appeals.
AYA FUJIMURA-FANSELOW is Legal Adviser for International Litigation and Advocacy in the International Legal Program at the Center. Her work has supported diverse advocacy strategies to promote reproductive rights, with an emphasis on litigation and regional capacity building workshops. She currently works on the implementation of the Center's international litigation efforts and works collaboratively to develop and assist cases before national, regional and international fora. Her experience includes cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and UN treaty monitoring bodies. She also oversees the annual convening of the Center's International Litigation Advisory Committee. Previously, Aya was a fellow in the International Legal Program. Before joining the Center in 2005, Ms. Fujimura-Fanselow was a Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow at Bread for the City in Washington, D.C. where she provided direct legal services to low-income women and their families. Ms. Fujimura-Fanselow graduated with a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College and is a 2004 graduate of Fordham Law School, where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law and Ethics.
BONNIE SCOTT JONES is a Deputy Director in the Domestic Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. During her decade with the Center, Bonnie has served as lead counsel in complex constitutional litigation challenging restrictions on reproductive health care, including Medicaid funding bans, abortion facility regulations, and reporting requirements for adolescent patients. She has focused on developing alternate legal theories for our cases including arguments under the equal protection clause, the right to informational privacy, and the Fourth Amendment. Bonnie also has led various non-litigation projects, including the filing of a Citizen's Petition with the FDA on behalf of dozens of medical and health organizations seeking to make emergency contraception available over the counter. She has published articles and given presentations on the legal issues surrounding medical abortion, emergency contraception, and targeted regulation of abortion providers. Prior to joining the Center, Bonnie was a law clerk, first for the Massachusetts Superior Court and then for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Sarah Lawrence College.
LAURA KATZIVE is the Deputy Director of the International Legal Program of the Center for Reproductive Rights. Ms. Katzive's work includes advocacy at the UN and support for national-level law reform initiatives worldwide. In furtherance of these activities, she develops Center materials that analyze international law and global legal trends in the area of reproductive rights. Before becoming a Center legal adviser in 1999, she was a fellow in the International Legal Program. Ms. Katzive graduated from Cornell Law School, where she earned both a JD and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International and Comparative Law.
CELINE MIZRAHI is the Legislative Counsel for the Domestic Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Celine's work includes legal analyses of state legislative proposals affecting women's reproductive rights, technical assistance to local advocates on state legislative issues, and the development and promotion of pro-active legislative and policy strategies. Prior to joining the Center's State Legislative Program in 2006, Celine was a litigation associate for Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel, LLP. Celine has a background in anti-poverty advocacy and women’s issues, from her time working as an advocate and counselor for low-income women at the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation in the Bronx. Celine continued to work on social justice issues through law school, interning at the D.C. Employment Justice Center, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, ACLU Immigrant Rights Project, and the Health Law Unit at the Legal Aid Society of New York. A graduate of Yale University, Celine earned her J.D from New York University Law School, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow.
MICHELLE PALLAK MOVAHED is a litigation fellow with the Domestic Legal Program. Before joining the Center, she clerked for the Honorable James Orenstein, a United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York. She earned a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law, where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law & Ethics, a Crowley Scholar in International Human Rights and a founder of Fordham Law Students for Choice, and a B.A. in Religion from Reed College. Prior to law school, Ms. Movahed worked in disaster relief and provided direct social services; during law school, she was an intern with multiple human and civil rights legal organizations, including Equality Now, Amnesty International and Legal Momentum.
LILIAN SEPÚLVEDA is the Regional Manager and Legal Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean in the International Legal Program. Her work focuses on the protection and advancement of women's reproductive rights in Latin America, including spearheading the Center's litigation and law reform efforts in the region. Ms. Sepúlveda has represented the Center in negotiating a settlement with the Mexican government in Paulina Ramírez v. Mexico, and is working to ensure the Peruvian government’s implementation of the UN Human Rights Committee’s decision in K.L. v. Peru. She is editor of Bodies on Trial: Reproductive Rights in Latin American Courts, a key regional publication of the International Legal Program, and co-author of "What Role can International Litigation Play in the Promotion and Advancement of Reproductive Rights in Latin America?". Before joining the Center in 2002, she worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and at Rutgers University. Ms. Sepúlveda is a graduate of Rutgers University School of Law.
ELISA SLATTERY is the Regional Manager and Legal Adviser for Africa. Her work focuses on promoting reproductive rights through national, regional, and international accountability mechanisms, and addressing the intersection of HIV and reproductive rights. Prior to coming to the Center, she worked at the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya as a Third Millennium Foundation Human Rights Fellow. She has also worked as a consultant on worker's rights issues in Kenya and conducted comparative legal and human rights research on prisoners’ parental rights at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice. Ms. Slattery received her J.D. from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. She has an M.A. in History from Duke University, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
MELISSA UPRETI is the Legal Adviser for Asia with the International Legal Program. She is spearheading two regional research projects that constitute part of the acclaimed Women of the World series of reports in South Asia and East and South East Asia. She led a fact-finding mission to investigate women in prison for abortion in Nepal and is co-author of Abortion in Nepal: Women Imprisoned. She also designed and led several advocacy initiatives for the Center in Nepal, which contributed to the decriminalization of abortion in 2002. Prior to joining the Center in 2000, Ms. Upreti was a Program Officer at the Asia Foundation in Nepal, an assistant to a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of Nepal, and a researcher and counselor at the Legal Aid & Consultancy Center in Nepal. Ms. Upreti graduated with honors from North Bengal University in India; she received her Master of Laws from the Columbia University School of Law, where was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
STEPHANIE TOTI is a staff attorney in the Domestic Legal Program. Her work focuses on advancing reproductive freedom and making access to reproductive health care services a reality for all women in the United States. Prior to becoming a Staff Attorney, Ms. Toti was a Litigation Fellow at the Center. Ms. Toti clerked for the Honorable Nina Gershon, a United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Toti also served as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, where she worked in the law firm's litigation and environmental law practice groups. She earned a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a McKay Scholar, and a B.A. from Fordham University, where she studied Public Administration and Mathematics. She is admitted to the New York State Bar, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
CHRISTINA ZAMPAS is the Senior Regional Manager and Legal Adviser for Europe in the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Her work focuses on the achievement of reproductive health care and rights for women in Europe, with a concentration on Central and Eastern Europe. She leads the Center's law reform, litigation and training efforts in the region, including work at the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Optional Protocol mechanisms. She has co-led a fact finding mission to Slovakia to investigate the forced and coerced sterilization of Romani women and is co-author of Body and Soul: Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom in Slovakia. She has also designed and implemented the first litigation-focused women’s human rights training program for lawyers from CEE. Ms. Zampas is on the ASTRA Network Advisory Board. Before joining the Center in 2001, Zampas was a Senior Program Officer in the Population and Sustainable Development program at Parliamentarians for Global Action. Before that, she worked at the Carnegie Corporation of New York in the area of women's health and development, focusing on women's legal rights in sub-Saharan Africa, and was a visiting lecturer in Russian universities with the Civic Education Project, Yale University and the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute, Budapest. Ms. Zampas is a graduate of Syracuse University Law School.
