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.
	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.
	Laura Huss, Programs and Research Associate received her BA from Kenyon College in Philosophy. After working as a legal assistant for a criminal public defense attorney, she completed a master’s degree in Development Sociology from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, focusing on issues of social and economic inequalities. Her master's thesis looked at the livelihoods and voices of informal workers within South Africa's capitalist system, broadly exposing the efforts of social movements advocating for increased rights of marginalized populations. After completing her degree, she worked as a researcher at the Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit at the University of Cape Town focusing on gender-based violence, incarceration of women, and sexual assault.

Board of Directors

Nancy Aries, PhD (Treasurer)
Carolyn J. (Cali) Cole
Jeanne Flavin, PhD (President)
Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH
Jennifer Morgan, PhD
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.

Carolyn J. (Cali) Cole

Carolyn J. (Cali) Cole, is Chairman and Founder of The Cole Group, a consultant to family offices and non-profit organizations. A trusted advisor to corporations, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and individuals for over three decades, Ms. Cole has an extensive record of success in many areas of financial services and investment management. She has held senior executive positions at Citigroup, RBC Dain, and UBS. She is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the CFA Institute, the Economic Club of New York, and the YWCA Academy of Women Leaders. Her current non-profit board positions include the UFT Charter Schools, Girls Inc. of New York City, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and the Beatrix Farrand Garden Association. She attended Vassar College and the Leonard N. Stern School of Business Administration, New York University, and has lectured at the Harvard Business School, the Sloan School of Business at MIT, the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Rochester Simon School of Business.

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), co-editor of Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror (Rutgers, 2007), and author of many articles. She is the recipient of a 2008-09 Fulbright Award to study gender, family, and crime in South Africa.

Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH.

Mariotta Gery-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 is the past-recipient of a national fellow position at the Morehouse School of Medicine, National Center for Primary Care in the Center of Excellence of Sexual Health. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon as a sexuality educator.

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 publications, such as Cultural Studies, NWSA Journal, American Studies Journal, Hypatia, and various edited collections. She is a professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and American Studies at the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences.

Angela Moreno.

An activist and doula who was born and raised in the borderlands of the southwestern US, Angela Moreno has worked at the Ms. Foundation for Women and the Funding Exchange and with clientele including Stonewall Community Foundation, Surdna Foundation, North Star Foundation, Tides Foundation. and the Astraea Foundation, as well as with Sakhi for South Asian Women, Tewa Women United, Enlace International and California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, among others. For more than two decades, Angela has worked to ensure the health and safety of women, LGBTQ people, immigrants, low-income communities, and people of color. She has served as director or advisor to the mid-MO ACLU, Third Wave Foundation, Abortion Access Project (now PROVIDE), the Border Action Network, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and the Spirit in Motion Project of the Movement Strategy Center. Angela is ever on the verge of finishing a graduate degree at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Jennifer Morgan, PhD.

Jennifer Morgan is a New York University Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History and Director of Graduate Studies, SCA. She received her PhD in 1996 from Duke University. Her areas of research interests include early African American history, comparative slavery, histories of racial ideology, women and Gender. Her other affiliations include, American Historical Association, Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians, McNeil Center for Early American Studies. NAPW was introduced to Professor Morgan by her father, John Morgan a drug policy reformer and leader in research and writing regarding the effects of criminalized drugs.

Robert G. Newman, MD, MPH.

Dr. Newman is the 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, 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 in order 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 Century; 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!