Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center. Ms. Goss Graves has spent her career fighting to advance opportunities for women and girls. She has a distinguished track record working across a broad set of issues central to women’s lives, including income security, health and reproductive rights, education access, and workplace fairness. She clerked for Hon. Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and litigated at a large law firm before beginning her more than a decade of experience in senior roles at NWLC that preceded her current role. Widely published and a sought-after national media voice on her areas of expertise, she received her BA from UCLA and her JD from Yale Law School.

Ederlina Co, Associate Professor, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Professor Co brought extensive experience in the public and private sectors to academia, and now teaches numerous courses including Reproductive Rights and Justice. Prior to joining the McGeorge faculty, she spent nearly a decade as a career clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Prior to that position, she was Counsel at NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington, DC, where among other things she led the organization’s program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in reproductive health care. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

Bridgette Jackson, Counsel, Center for Reproductive Rights. Ms. Jackson joined the Center in 2019 and is responsible for advancing an array of reproductive rights issues by engaging legal leaders from law firms, corporate legal departments, not-for-profits and other areas of the profession across the country. Prior to her work at the Center, she worked at Aflac, on their Federal Relations team, where she served as a liaison for Members of Congress and Congressional staff. She received her BS from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and her JD from Charlotte School of Law.

Nakia Woods, Director, California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom. CCRF is a statewide coalition of more than 40 organizations working to promote sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Nakia is an expert on reproductive healthcare and policy in California, with a particular focus on Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer communities. A graduate of the Dr. Beatriz Maria Solís Policy Institute (formerly Women’s Policy Institute at the Women’s Foundation California), they have been an active member and facilitator of multiple Bay Area coalitions and collaboratives, including the Roots of Labor Birth Collective and spent three years as the Director of Oakland’s Health for Oakland’s People and Environment Collaborative.