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BWLC Advocacy

YLS + Eric Holder + Sharon Malone + Jamelle Bouie
BWLC Fellow-in-Residence AY 2024-2025 Dr. Sharon Malone, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, BWLC Executive Director Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, former United States Attorney General Eric Holder, BWLC Faculty Director Melissa Murray, and the Yale Law School Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice: Genevieve Scott, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel, Priscilla Smith.
BWLC x Moms First
BWLC Faculty Director Melissa Murray, Founder and CEO of Moms First Reshma Saujani, and BWLC Executive Director Jennifer Weiss-Wolf at the BWLC x Moms First Motherhood Lectures on February 12, 2026. ©Slezak: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.

 

The Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center works across sectors with an array of partners and leaders, in and outside of the legal profession. Together we problem-solve, innovate, and experiment — with a common goal of advancing democracy, justice, and equality for all at the local, state, and national levels and in the legal profession. We bring a unique combination of convening capacity, media prominence, and research and academic expertise, including via BWLC research assistants and visiting Fellows-in-Residence who contribute to this work.

As of April 2025, the BWLC is home to the Marcy Syms Equality Initiative — a leader in the movement to develop innovative, transformative legal and policy strategies to advance sex-based equality.

Among our current partners:

BWLC Advocacy Partners
Left to right, top to bottom: the Center on Race, Inequality & the Law at NYU School of Law; the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at NYU School of Law; Ms. Magazine; Moms First; Reproductive Rights and Justice Project at Yale Law School; Pregnancy Justice