Center Staff

Dionne Scott is the Center's Director of Communications Operations, having served previously as Senior Press Officer. She has played a leading role in generating publicity for high-profile press campaigns including the 2007 Supreme Court Federal Abortion Ban case, the Kansas’ "kiss and tell" case, and our ongoing lawsuit against the FDA for failing to make Plan B available to women of all ages without a prescription…

Carveth Martin joined the Center in 2007. She has a Masters in Communications and Design from Pratt Institute, and designed the Center's new website, launched in January 2009…

Jill Aragones, Director of Foundations Relations, joined the Center in June 2007. She coordinates and oversees all aspects of the foundation fund-raising program, which currently includes a roster of 40 annual institutional donors…

Janna Chan joined the Center in 2009 as the Manager of Online Strategy and Response. Her role includes developing and packaging a wide variety of compelling editorial content for an online audience and engaging CRR supporters through email advocacy and social media…

Megan Moore is the Development Associate for Foundation Relations. Prior to joining the Center in November 2007, Ms. Moore worked in abortion care services with reproductive health providers in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York…

Erin Davies joined the Center as the Human Resources Manager in January 2007. Prior to joining the Center, she worked at New York University for five years - first as a Senior Benefits Specialist before being promoted to Human Resources Manager for the Provost Office. Ms…

Manuel Malixi joined the Center in 2006 as the Staff Accountant. He received his MBA from the Asian Institute of Management in 1996 and his BA in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Philippines in 1991…

Gamal Boyce joined the Center in 2007 as the Finance Assistant. He received his BA in Finance from St. John’s University in 2005…

Michelle Lee Olivero joined the Center in November 2009 as the Administrative Assistant to the Finance and Administration Department.  Prior to working at the Center, Michelle worked for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center at…

Aram Schvey serves as Policy Counsel for Foreign Policy and Human Rights, and is responsible for advancing the Center's international policy objectives in Washington, D.C…

Lilian Sepúlveda is the Deputy Director of the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Her work has focused on the protection and advancement of women's reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, including spearheading the Center's litigation and law reform efforts in the region…

Melissa Upreti is Senior Regional Manager and Legal Adviser for Asia in the International Legal Program. She is coordinator and main editor of two of the Center's signature publications, Women of the World, South Asia, and Women of the World, East and Southeast Asia…

Elisa Slattery is the Regional Manager and Legal Adviser for Africa in the International Legal Program. Her work focuses on promoting reproductive rights through national, regional, and international accountability mechanisms and addressing the intersection of HIV and reproductive rights…

Alejandra Cárdenas is the Legal Fellow for Latin America and the Caribbean in the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights…

Payal Shah is the Legal Advisor for Asia in the International Legal
Program, for which she was formerly the Legal Fellow from 2008-2010. Her
work at the Center includes litigation and advocacy on India, Nepal,
Bangladesh and the Philippines around issues of abortion, maternal
mortality and morbidity, and access to contraception and family planning
services…

Sofia Khan is the Legal Fellow for Asia, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean…

Suzannah Phillips is a Henkin-Stoffel Human Rights Fellow in the International Legal Program. Her work at the Center focuses on coercive sterilization and the intersections between reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and Africa…

Heather joined the Center as International Operations Manager with the International Legal Program in July 2011. Prior to joining the Center, she worked as Business Manager with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) in New York…

Meghan Clark-Kevan joined the Center in May 2010 as the Legal Assistant for the Europe and Africa programs. Prior to joining the Center she assisted on the Circles of Names Campaign with Women's Ministries at the National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA…

Jennifer Ryan joined the Center in 2007 and is Senior Executive Assistant to the President. She previously worked at the National Hockey League as Assistant to the Group Vice President and General Counsel of NHL Media…

Janet Crepps is a Deputy Director in the U.S. Legal Program. Her litigation has included fighting bans on "partial-birth" abortion, parental consent requirements, and TRAP regulations…

Diana has extensive experience building programs and working with U.S. Law Schools. She is the former director of the Global Public Service Law Project at NYU where she also served as Lecturer-in-Law, teaching a course on comparative strategies for using law to bring about social change in a number of countries including India, South Africa, Kenya, Brazil, Argentina and China…

Katrina Anderson leads the Center’s work to integrate international human rights strategies into domestic legal advocacy…

Julie Rikelman is a Senior Staff Attorney in the U.S…

Jordan Goldberg is the State Advocacy Counsel for the U.S. Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. …

Ian Vandewalker is a Legal Fellow with the U.S. Legal Program. Prior to joining the Center, he served as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellow in Nonprofit Law at the Vera Institute of Justice, where he worked in the general counsel's office…

Amanda Allen is a Legislative Fellow with the U.S. Legal Program. Prior to joining the Center, Allen was a Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, where she ran their reproductive justice program…

Liz Sepper is the 2010-2012 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow.  Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between health, human rights, and culture.  She has published several articles, including Confronting the "Sacred and Unchangeable": The Obligation…

Nicole Tuszynski joined the Center in 2009 as a Program Associate in the U.S. Legal Program.  She holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights Studies from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, and a B.A. in Political Science from Stonehill College…

Before joining the Center, Claire Cooper worked at the Maine affiliate of the ACLU. Cooper attended Bowdoin College where she majored in Government & Legal Studies and Religion…