lynn paltrow

 

Lynn M. Paltrow, J.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women ("NAPW"). Ms. Paltrow is a graduate of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at 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.
 
Through her work at these organizations Ms. Paltrow recognized the need for a shift in the reproductive rights paradigm – away from divisive (and inaccurate) “pro-choice” and “anti-choice” categorizations and toward a set of inclusive, positive reproductive and family justice values around which a broad base of allies can mobilize. As Executive Director of NAPW, Ms. Paltrow combines legal advocacy with grassroots and national organizing and policy work to bring about this shift. She is a frequent guest lecturer and writer for popular press, law reviews and medical journals.
 

Ms. Paltrow is the recipient of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellowship, the Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship, the Justice Gerald Le Dain Award for Achievement in the Field of Law, was selected in 2005 as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century by Women’sEnews, and has received the National Women's Health Network's Barbara Seaman Award for Activism in Women's Health, and in 2011, an honorary degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is a Gemini and mother of twins.

 

 

Featured from CNN to PBS to Cosmopolitan magazine for her expertise in LGBT community topics, Amy Andre is the Executive Director of San Francisco Pride and the co-author of Bisexual Health: An Introduction and Model Practices for HIV/STI Prevention (published by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force). She is also the director of the internationally-screened documentary On My Skin/ En Mi Piel, about a biracial transgender man and his family.

 

A bisexual biracial African American Jew, Amy explores the intersections – and margins – of race, gender, and sexuality, in her work as an author and public speaker. Most frequently asked to speak about her book (and about bisexual identity in general), she has educated thousands of students at over 100 universities, conferences, and organizations, including Harvard, Brown, Rutgers, UCLA, and Stanford Medical School, deepening their understanding of bisexual health, LGBT community, and the future of human sexuality.

 

Amy’s writing appears in countless publications, including as AlterNet, American Sexuality, The Bilerico Project, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, ColorLines, Curve, and The Miami Herald. She also has essays in the books Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Best Sex Writing, LGBTQ America Today, Waking up American: Coming of Age Bi-Culturally, Visible: A Femmethology, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, and many more.  

 

Amy holds a master’s degree in Sexuality Studies, and, as a Point Foundation Scholar, earned an MBA in nonprofit management from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in San Francisco with her spouse, filmmaker Kami Chisholm, PhD. 

 

www.amyandre.com

 

Topics:

·         Why Bisexuals Have Worse Health than Gays and Lesbians, and What We Can Do about All Health Disparities

·         On My Skin: Intersections of Biracial, Bisexual, and Transgender Lives

·         Second Glances: Two African American Women Take a Closer Look at Their Jewish Identities