Staff

	Lynn M. Paltrow, JD, Executive Director, founded National Advocates for Pregnant Women in 2001. Ms. Paltrow is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Law. She has worked on numerous cases challenging restrictions on the right to choose abortion as well cases opposing the prosecution and punishment of pregnant women seeking to continue their pregnancies to term. Ms. Paltrow has served as a senior staff attorney at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, as Director of Special Litigation at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, and as Vice President for Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of New York City. Ms. Paltrow conceived of and filed the first affirmative federal civil rights challenge to a hospital policy of searching pregnant women for evidence of drug use and turning that information over to the police. In the case of Ferguson et. al., v. City of Charleston et. al., the United States Supreme Court agreed that such a policy violates the 4th amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
	Emma Ketteringham, JD, Director of Legal Advocacy, came to NAPW from The Bronx Defenders, where she was a criminal defense attorney and later became the Deputy Managing Attorney of the family law practice. At The Bronx Defenders, Ms. Ketteringham trained and supervised attorneys who represented parents in abuse, neglect and termination of parental rights proceedings. She also participated in numerous court-based and independent coalitions to develop pro-family policies and practices in New York City Family Court. Previously, Ms. Ketteringham was a litigation associate at Lansner and Kubitschek where she represented parents and children in state and federal court and at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she worked on complex civil litigation. Ms. Ketteringham clerked for two federal judges, first in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, then at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She has also worked as a Legal Assistant at the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and as a law clerk at the American Civil Liberties Union for Southern California. She is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, where she was a Teaching Assistant for First Year Legal Practice and Writing and a Court Advocate for survivors of domestic violence. Emma holds a B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College.
	Farah Diaz-Tello, JD, Staff Attorney, is a graduate of the City University of New York School of Law, where she was a Haywood Burns Fellow in Civil and Human Rights. Her work at NAPW has focused on the rights to medical decision-making and birthing with dignity, and on using the international human rights framework to protect the humanity of pregnant women regardless of their circumstances. A proud Texan, she is an alumna of the University of Texas at Austin.
	Gebrina B. Roberts, Office Manager, transitioned from the profit to the nonprofit world in January 2009. She brings more than 15 years of expertise in financial management with emphasis on accounting and bookkeeping. Gebrina worked at Allworth Press as a Business Manager for 14 years and has a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting from Baruch College.
	Katie McCabe, Research and Program Associate, has been with NAPW since 2010. Her interest in the intersections of gender, race, and the criminal justice system brought her to the organization. She is currently in the process of attaining her MA in Sociology at Fordham University and is studying university responses to dating violence on a college campus. She obtained her BA in psychology at Southern Methodist University.

Board of Directors

Nancy Aries, PhD (Treasurer)
Jeanne Flavin, PhD (President)
Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH
Cheryl Howard, JD (Vice President)
Carol Mason, PhD
Angela Moreno
Robert Newman, MD, MPH
Lynn. M. Paltrow, JD

Board Biographies

Nancy R. Aries, PhD.
Nancy R. Aries.,is a Professor and Executive Director of Academic Programs at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College. She also holds an appointment in the Department of Community Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and Health Care Management Review. She is the recipient of a 2008-09 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellowship.

Jeanne Flavin, PhD.
Jeanne Flavin is an associate professor of Sociology at Fordham University. Her scholarship and advocacy mainly examines the impact of the criminal justice system on women. She is author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: Policing Women's Reproduction in America (NYU 2009), co-author of Class, Race, Gender & Crime, 2nd ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007) and co-editor of Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror (Rutgers, 2007) as well as many articles. She also is 2008-09 Fulbright Award recipient to study gender, family and crime in South Africa.

Carol Mason, PhD.
Carol Mason is an interdisciplinary scholar whose expertise includes the rise of the right and reproductive politics. She is the author of Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics (Cornell, 2002) and Soul On Appalachian Ice: Turning Right in the Mountain State (Cornell). Dr. Mason is the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe/Harvard. Dr. Mason’s work has appeared in several publications, including Cultural Studies, NWSA Journal , American Studies Journal, Hypatia, and various edited collections. As associate professor of gender studies and English, she teaches at Oklahoma State University.

Angela Moreno.
Born and raised from in the borderlands of the southwestern US, Angela is an activist, doula and generalist who has worked with a range of nonprofit social justice organizations and foundations doing both program and development work. Active for two decades in domestic and international work to ensure the health and safety of women, immigrants, low-income communities and people of color, Angela is currently involved with a range of projects—from creating a free, independent, city-wide childbirth education program that prioritizes women of color, to building a national indigenous birth worker network—as she earns her MA in Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Robert G. Newman, MD, MPH.
Dr. Newman is Director of The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation Chemical Dependency Institute of Beth Israel Medical Center and an internationally renowned expert on methadone treatment. For the past 35 years Dr. Newman has played a major role in planning and directing some of the largest addiction treatment programs in the world—including the New York City Methadone Maintenance and Ambulatory Detoxification Programs, which in the mid-‘70s treated over 33,000 patients annually. He has also been a strong addiction treatment advocate in Europe, Australia and Asia. Dr. Newman is also President Emeritus of Continuum Health Partners, a major non-profit hospital corporation, and a professor in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Social Medicine.

Lynn M. Paltrow, J.D.
Ms. Paltrow is the Founder and Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women ("NAPW"). She is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Law. During her career, she has worked at many of the leading reproductive rights organizations including the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project and the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. As Executive Director of NAPW, Ms. Paltrow combines legal advocacy with grassroots and national organizing and policy work works to secure the human and civil rights, health and welfare of all women, focusing particularly on pregnant and parenting women, and those who are most vulnerable - low income women, women of color, and drug-using women. Ms. Paltrow is a former Hays Civil Liberties Fellow, Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow, and recipient of numerous awards including The Drug Policy Alliance’s Justice Gerald Le Dain Award for Achievement in the Field of Law; A Women's E-news 2005 Honoree: 21 Women Leaders for the 21st Centur; and the National Women’s Health Network’s Barbara Seaman Award for Activism in Women's Health. She is the mother of twins and a Gemini!

Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH.
Ms. Gary Smith received her MPH from the Emory School of Public Health. Ms. Gary-Smith has a long history of activism with the National Black Women's Health Project, Be Present Inc., and with National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Ms. Gary-Smith's work includes public health work with drug using women and participation in NAPW's two national conferences. Most recently, Ms. Gary-Smith was awarded a national fellow position at the Morehouse School of Medicine, National Center for Primary Care in the Center of Excellence of Sexual Health.