Joan Entmacher is Vice President and Director of Family Economic Security at the National Women's Law Center, where she focuses on policies affecting the economic security of low-income women and their families, including Social Security, child support, tax, and income support programs. To promote improvements in these policies, Ms. Entmacher has testified to Congress on several occasions, frequently has advocated before administrative agencies, has participated in litigation, and has written and spoken extensively on these issues. Before joining the Center in 1998, Ms. Entmacher served as Director of Legal and Public Policy for the National Partnership for Women and Families, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, Chief of the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, and attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor Solicitor's Office. Ms. Entmacher is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School.

Fatima Goss Graves is Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women’s Law Center, where she works to promote the rights of women and girls at school and in the workplace, with a particular emphasis on improving dropout rates for girls, ensuring nondiscrimination in athletics and nontraditional fields for women, advancing equal pay for equal work and the development of fundamental legal principles of equal opportunity.  She uses a number of advocacy strategies in her work on these issues ranging from public education and legislative advocacy to litigation, including briefs in the Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals. Prior to joining the Center, she worked as an appellate and trial litigator at Mayer Brown LLP.  She began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Ms. Goss Graves is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and Yale Law School.

Kristin Robinson

Kristin Robinson is Vice President of Development at the National Women’s Law Center.  She and her team work with the Board of Directors, generous individuals, foundations, law firms, corporations and other groups who care deeply about the Center’s mission and provide the resources that make all of its work possible.  In addition to her long career at the Center, she has led the development efforts for other non-profit organizations including: Public Justice; The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation; The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.  Prior to her career in development she held advertising and research positions at McGraw-Hill, The Times-Journal Company, and The New Republic  magazine.  She holds a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s degree from Georgetown University.  She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and a founding member of the Development Directors’ Roundtable.

Karen Schneider

Karen Schneider is Vice President of Communications at the National Women's Law Center. She has been the chief communications officer of numerous national and international social justice and advocacy organizations, developing strategy and overseeing media, marketing, Internet development, visual communications, publications and artist relations. She served as Director of Communications at the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League from 1993 to 1996, as a communications consultant advising social justice clients from 1996 to 1999, as Deputy Executive Director/Communications at Amnesty International USA from 1999 to 2007, and as Director of Communications at Greenpeace USA from 2007 to 2009. Ms. Schneider previously worked for 16 years as a print journalist. She served in a variety of capacities, including education writer, bureau chief, Washington correspondent and deputy national/foreign editor at such newspapers as the Hartford Courant and Detroit Free Press. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Ms. Schneider currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Women Policy Studies.

Judy Waxman

Judy Waxman is the Vice President of Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women's Law Center. She pioneers advocacy, policy and educational strategies to promote the quality and availability of health care, including reproductive choice, for American women. Prior to joining the National Women's Law Center, Ms. Waxman served as Deputy Executive Director at Families USA for over a decade. In that capacity, she worked to achieve high quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans and was a leader on grassroots and activities on Medicaid, Medicare and other health care access legislative issues. She previously served as a Professional Staff Member with the Pepper Commission (The United States Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care). Ms. Waxman was also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, an attorney for the Department of Health and Human Services and served as President of the Board of Directors of the Women's Medical Center, a nonprofit health clinic. She served on advisory committees for publications of the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Older Women's League (OWL), and was the Chair of the Health Task Force of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and of the Leadership Conference of Aging Organizations. She holds a law degree from American University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami, in Florida.