LSRJ trains and mobilizes law students and new lawyers across the country to foster legal expertise and support for the realization of reproductive justice.
Board of Directors
Rebecca Reingold
President
Lillian Hewko
Vice President
Erika Willis
Secretary
Brigitte Amiri
Treasurer
Erin Armstrong
President Emerita
Jill Adams
Aimee Arrambide
Janine Shissler
Lara Shkordoff
Cynthia Soohoo
Aimee Thorne-Thomsen
Advisory Board
Maggie Crosby
Walter Dellinger
Kim Gandy
Marcia Greenberger
Angela Hooton
Priscilla Huang
Nancy Keenan
Louise Melling
Debra Ness
Nancy Northrup
Kim Parker
Loretta Ross
Vicki Saporta
Reva Siegel
Louise Slaughter
Eleanor Smeal
Jody Steinhauer
Ann Stone
Melissa Upreti
Carlton Veazey
Academic Advisory Council
Jack Balkin
Caitlin Borgmann
Kim Buchanan
Cary Franklin
Nancy Ehrenreich
Jesse Hill
Lisa Ikemoto
Dawn Johnsen
Pam Karlan
Kristin Luker
Alice Miller
Kim Mutcherson
Nina Pillard
Dorothy Roberts
Mindy Roseman
Neil Siegel
Reva Siegel
Alumni Network Committee
Dante Costa
('11, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)
Jina Dhillon
('10, University of North Carolina School of Law)
Katherine Minarik
('06, University of Pennsylvania School of Law)
Erin Schultz
('07, University of Michigan Law School)
Jennifer Smith
('07, UC Davis School of Law)
LSRJ staff at Reproductive Freedom Day in Sacramento, CA
(March, 2011)
LSRJ has never been stronger, and it is because of your support! When you financially support LSRJ, you are shaping leaders, enriching education, boosting careers, building capacity, and advancing policy. In short, we cannot do the work we do without you!
Please continue supporting our efforts by making a year-end gift to LSRJ today. Together, we can expand our reach, foster new relationships, and strengthen the movement in the face of tremendous opposition.
$50 --- Help one chapter introduce themselves to their community with a general meeting and presentation of "Reproductive Justice 101" - with food, of course!
$100 --- Deliver one starter kit to a new chapter (organizing tips and tools, Easy-Events-in-an-Envelope, t-shirts, tote-bags, etc)
$300 --- Provide one travel scholarship to a chapter leader coming to the Leadership Institute
$600 --- Compensate one intern for 10 weeks of service
$1000 --- Sustain one chapter all year long (materials, trainings, technical support, etc)
Shaping Leaders
New York Law School LSRJ chapter members
LSRJ has a presence at over 100 law schools, and we are growing by the minute! Through our campus outreach, we get to meet students like Erika Willis. She is a tenacious advocate for reproductive justice on her campus and in her community who revitalized the LSRJ chapter at Florida A&M College of Law in just one semester. She went on to lead LSRJ's Reaching and Recruiting Law Students of Color Initiative as an intern with the national office. Erika points to the wide range of activism materials, such as the Easy-Events-in-an-Envelope, Resource Guide, fact sheets, and Student Activist E-Binder as key ingredients to her success at FAMU and beyond.
LSRJ Board Members Erika Willis, Secretary, Rebecca Reingold, President, & Lillian Hewko, Vice President
"LSRJ changed my life. From my arrival at the office the staff was committed to making sure we were well versed in current social justice issues, cultural sensitivity, legal procedures, and the heart of what it means to be involved in reproductive justice."
-Erika Willis, Secretary, LSRJ Board of Directors, 2011 Legal Intern, 2L, Florida A&M College of Law
We are educating the next generation of lawyers, judges, scholars, and elected officials who will infuse the movement with their energy and creative thinking. Over 350 students have developed leadership, organizing, and advocacy skills at LSRJ trainings this year, including: five Regional Conferences; three Reproductive Rights Law & Policy Trainings for summer interns in Washington, D.C., New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area; and one record-breaking Leadership Institute.
Chapter leaders discuss the art of storytelling at the
2011 Leadership Institute
Enriching Education
To assist our members in their pursuit of justice in the classroom today and in the courtroom tomorrow, we have created one-of-a-king supplemental educational publications, such as the Human Rights Law Primer, Constitutional Law Primer, and the Model Curriculum for Courses in Reproductive Rights Law & Justice. We assist professors and practitioners around the country in preparing for their courses or starting new ones, because we know the importance of studying the law in order to protect or improve it.
"With the invaluable help of LSRJ, the Course Survey, and the Course Campaign Working Group, I created a law school supported Reproductive Justice Dinner Club. Placing reproductive rights in the context of other issues in Mississippi has helped the students at Ole Miss become stronger advocates and build new networks. None of this would have happened without the engaged support of LSRJ."
-Valena Beety, Adjunct Law Professor at University of Mississippi College of Law & Senior Staff Attorney at the Mississippi Innocence Project
Boosting Careers
Paige Herwig (Senior Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Policy), Sarah Lipton-Lubet (Policy Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office), and Andrea Friedman at a networking and fundraising event in Washington, D.C.
We welcome hundreds of graduating members each year into the ranks of lawyers for reproductive justice. Whether steeped in reproductive rights law as litigators, representing survivors of domestic violence in protection order hearings, advocating on behalf of migrant workers, or testifying on health care reform, our alums point to their time as LSRJ members as the launching pad for their career.
"My involvement with LSRJ has been absolutely critical to my career path. Many of my friends and colleagues have come through LSRJ and now that I have my dream job in reproductive health, my LSRJ network is more invaluable than ever. In short, I am forever grateful for my relationship to this amazing organization."
-Andrea Friedman, Director of Reproductive Health Programs, National Partnership for Women and Families
Building Capacity
LSRJ members contribute to the efforts of allied organizations long before they graduate. Every summer, LSRJ places full-time internships and part-time legal research projects with allies across the country, including ACRJ/Strong Families, Hollaback, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, and the Reproductive Justice Coalition of Los Angeles.
"Through linking law students with our efforts, LSRJ has produced critical research exposing the policy barriers to rights, resources, and recognition for families while also preparing their members for life-long participation in the reproductive justice movement."
-Eveline Shen, Executive Director, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Advancing Policy
'10-'11 RJ Fellows Amina Farhadi and Jaspreet Chowdhary at the White House
Through the Reproductive Justice Fellowship Program, we place bright and passionate recent law graduates with allied organizations to build a pipeline for reproductive justice attorneys and to bolster the capacity of organizations advancing federal law and policy. RJ Fellows benefit from mentorship, networking, and hands-on advocacy training helping to shape and strengthen the work of our allies.
"In the 112th Congress, Dani helped us to identify a strategy of a long-held problem our organization had with a piece of proposed legislation: specifically that it allowed for too much vulnerability among our constituents who suffered sexual assault in the military...Dani proposed new language and we were able to advocate for that language in Congress and at the White House in a way we never had before on this issue. We used this strategy and got changes adopted in the bill of the text."
-Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Director of Policy, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
The law students we train today will go on to create lasting social change in the forms of progressive legislation, public policy, court victories, and public education campaigns.
$50 --- Help one chapter introduce themselves to their community with a general meeting and presentation of "Reproductive Justice 101" - with food, of course!
$100 --- Deliver one starter kit to a new chapter (organizing tips and tools, Easy-Events-in-an-Envelope, t-shirts, tote-bags, etc)
$300 --- Provide one travel scholarship to a chapter leader coming to the Leadership Institute
$600 --- Compensate one intern for 10 weeks of service
$1000 --- Sustain one chapter all year long (materials, trainings, technical support, etc)
