Staff

Organizational Staff

Lynn M. Paltrow, JD, Executive Director

Sonya Shields, Director of Development

Gebrina Roberts, Office Manager

Kathrine Jack, JD, Staff Attorney

Farah Diaz-Tello JD, Legal Fellow in Birthing Rights

Cassandra Burrows, MPH, Research and Program Associate

Mary Blair, Program Associate

Board of Directors

Nancy Aries, PhD
Corinne Carey, JD
Jeanne Flavin, PhD (President)
Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH
Gary Hoenig (Treasurer)
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.

Corinne Carey, JD.
Corinne Carey, JD began her legal career with a fellowship from the Open Society Institute as the founder and director of the Harm Reduction Law Project in New York City. A longtime drug law reform and harm reduction advocate, Carey was a founding member of Prevention Point Philadelphia, that city’s first needle exchange program. Corinne previously worked as researcher with the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch and as Director of the Harm Reduction Law Project, which provided legal services to people who use drugs. Her research provided the foundation for NAPW’s publication Overview of State and Federal Laws. Currently, Corinne is public policy counsel to the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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.

Gary Hoenig.
Gary Hoenig was named editor in chief of ESPN The Magazine in April 2003 and added the role of editorial director of ESPN Books in June 2005. Mr. Hoenig leads all editorial direction of ESPN’s award-winning magazine while also overseeing the acquisition, editing and production of books with the ESPN imprint. Prior to being named editor in chief of The Magazine, Hoenig served as its executive editor since the launch in 1998. Mr. Hoenig not only has an abiding love of and interest in sports and news, be also he is a brilliant political analyst.

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.

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.