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Center for Reproductive Rights Board of Directors

OFFICERS

  • Nicki Nichols Gamble, Chair
    Former President and CEO, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts; Chair, IPAS Board of Directors; Co-Chair, Federation-wide Campaign, Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Former President, National Abortion Federation; Board Member, Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum.
  • Barbara N. Grossman, Vice Chair
    Former Chairman, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
  • Laurie G. Campbell, Treasurer
    Managing Director of Global, Corporate and Investment Banking at the Bank of America.
  • Roberta Schneiderman, Secretary
    Chair Emeritus of Planned Parenthood of New York City.
BOARD MEMBERS
  • Dr. Machelle H. Allen
    Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University School of Medicine; Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital Center; Serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater New York March of Dimes and the Population Council's Institutional Review Board.
  • Rebecca J. Cook
    Professor of Law & Faculty Chair in International Human Rights, University of Toronto.
  • Anna Greenberg
    Senior Vice President, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner.
  • Dr. Paula Johnson
    Chief of the Division of Women's Health and Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
  • Sylvia A. Law
    Co-Director, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program; Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, New York University School of Law.
  • Nancy Northup (ex officio)
    President, Center for Reproductive Rights.
  • Dr. Nafis Sadik
    Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia.
  • Dr. Sheldon Segal
    Distinguished Scientist, The Population Council.
  • David A. Sutphen
    Vice President, Government Relations, Viacom.
  • W. Henry Vandeveer
    Investment Manager and General Partner of Vandeveer Partners, LP; Board of Directors, Xyleme Inc.
  • Marshall M. Weinberg
    Honorary Member of the Visiting Committee, University of Michigan; Board Member, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Board Member, The Brookdale Institute.
  • Hope Winthrop
    Board Member, The NY Historical Society; Committee on University Resources, Harvard University; Dean's Committee on Women and Leadership, Harvard University; Former Vice President, Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy.
  • Dr. Sophia Yen
    Clinical Instructor, Pediatrics - Adolescent Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine.
HONORARY TRUSTEES
  • Roberta B. Bialek
  • Anne Gilchrist Hall
  • Maisie K. Houghton
  • Francis W. Hatch, Chairman, The John Merck Fund.
  • Betsy K. Karel, Board Chair, Trellis Fund
  • Marcie J. Musser, Vice President and Treasurer of the Board, General Service Foundation.
  • Julie Taymor, Theatre, Film and Opera Director


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CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT EMERITA

Janet Benshoof, one of the nation's foremost experts on reproductive rights and privacy law, established the Center for Reproductive Rights (formerly the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy) in 1992.

In 2000, The National Law Journal listed Benshoof as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America", an honor she received several times. In 1998, that same publication recognized Benshoof as one of the "50 Most Influential Women Lawyers" in the United States. In 1992, Benshoof received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship in recognition of her contribution to women's reproductive freedoms.