NWLC Staff

Ms. Goss Graves, who has served in numerous roles at NWLC for more than a decade, 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,…

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Nancy Withbroe, CFRE, Chief Operating Officer & Chief of Staff, provides strong day-to-day leadership for the staff, steering performance management to ensure alignment with NWLC’s strategic plan and organizational effectiveness goals – with a deep emphasis on equity and inclusion – and serves as a key thought partner to the President &…

Gretchen Borchelt is Vice President for Reproductive Rights and Health at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C. She oversees NWLC’s advocacy, policy, litigation, and education strategies to promote reproductive rights and access to comprehensive, affordable health care, including abortion and birth control. Gretchen testifies before lawmakers, serves as a media…

Melissa Boteach, Vice President for Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning, oversees NWLC’s advocacy, policy, and public education strategies to ensure that all women and families have the income and supports they need to thrive. Prior to joining NWLC, Melissa spent nearly a decade at Center for American Progress (CAP), where she…

Neena Chaudhry, General Counsel and Senior Advisor for Education, provides in-house legal advice and representation to the Center. She also works to protect the rights of women and girls to be free from sex discrimination in school. Ms. Chaudhry’s work focuses on girls who experience sexual harassment and violence, are denied athletic…

Mahzarine Chinoy, VP for Administration and Finance, leads the Center’s administration and finance team which include the administration, finance, human resources, and information technology functions.  She is a CPA with more than 15 years of blended public and private experience providing strategic management, business advisory and operational services within the nonprofit industry. Most…

Anna Chu, Vice President for Strategy and Policy, shapes NWLC’s cross-cutting advocacy and policy work and leads federal and state government relations strategy. Prior to joining NWLC, Ms. Chu served as the Vice President of Policy and Research at the Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund, leading its economic justice advocacy…

Uma Iyer, Vice President for Marketing and Communications, has spent more than 15 years working in multi-channel marketing, communications and fundraising, and recently joined NWLC as Vice President for Marketing and Communications. In this role she will help define NWLC’s national brand, broaden its visibility, and provide strategic oversight for media relations…

Emily Martin, Vice President for Education & Workplace Justice, oversees NWLC’s advocacy, policy, and education efforts to ensure fair treatment and equal opportunity for women and girls at work and at school and to forward policy frameworks that allow them to achieve and succeed, with a particular focus on the obstacles that…

Jodi Michael, Vice President for Development, leads the full range of NWLC’s fundraising activities, including major individual gifts, the annual fund, corporate philanthropy, foundation program and capacity-building support, and special events.  She previously served as NWLC’s Director of Foundation Relations, supervising the Development Team’s foundation fundraising across all of program areas. Before…