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The Marshall Plan for Moms: What Would It Mean for America to Put Care First? Online Program

The Marshall Plan for Moms: What Would It Mean for America to Put Care First?
Friday, September 24, 2021
10:00-2:30 p.m. EDT
 

Join the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network (BWLN) and the Marshall Plan for Moms for the BWLN's annual symposium on The Marshall Plan for Moms: What Would It Mean for America to Put Care First?.

This event is free and open to the public; kindly register via Zoom. Attendees will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link and password after registering.
 

Schedule (All times EDT)

10:00-10:05 a.m.: Welcome - Trevor W. Morrison, Dean; Eric M. & Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law, NYU Law

10:05-10:15 a.m.: Opening Remarks - Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, NYU Law

10:15-11:15 a.m. EDT: Panel 1 - Taking Stock: America’s Care Economy in 2021

  • Caitlin Millat ’18 (Moderator), Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School

  • Mara Bolis, Associate Director, Women’s Economic Rights, Oxfam America

  • Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center

  • Betsey Stevenson, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

  • Haeyoung Yoon, Senior Policy Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: Panel 2 - Looking Forward: Reimagining an Equitable Care Infrastructure

  • LaToya Baldwin Clark (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA Law

  • Tim Allen, CEO, Care.com

  • Rhian Horgan, Founder & CEO, Silvur

  • Rep. Grace Meng, Member, U.S. House of Representatives (NY-6)

  • Dr. Aisha Nyandoro, CEO, Magnolia Mother’s Trust/Springboard to Opportunities

1:15-2:15 p.m.: Leadership Roundtable - Reflections on a Marshall Plan for Moms

  • Jennifer Weiss-Wolf (Moderator), Vice President for Development, Brennan Center for Justice

  • Gary Barker, President and CEO, Promundo

  • Bernard C. Coleman III, Chief Diversity & Engagement Officer, Gusto

  • Sarita Gupta, Director, Future of Work(ers) Program, Ford Foundation

  • Dee Poku, Founder and CEO, The WIE Suite

2:15-2:30 p.m.: Closing Remarks - Reshma Saujani, Founder, The Marshall Plan for Moms; Founder, Girls Who Code


Continuing Legal Education (CLE)

This event has been approved for 3.5 New York State CLE credits in the category of Areas of Professional Practice (1 credit per panel or 3.5 credits for attendees who attend all three panels). The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. Out-of-state CLE: NYU School of Law is an accredited provider of CLE in New York State. If you are seeking CLE credit for a different state, we recommend you consult with your state’s CLE Board to ascertain regulations on reciprocity.

CLE Affirmation and Evaluation Form

For a password-protected link to the PDFs of the CLE written materials, please email womensleadership@nyu.edu. Materials are linked to their original source below.

CLE Written Materials

Panel 1: Taking Stock: America’s Care Economy in 2021 (10:15-11:15 a.m. EDT) 

Panel 2: Looking Forward: Reimagining an Equitable Care Infrastructure (11:45 a.m. - 12:55 p.m. EDT)

Leadership Roundtable - Reflections on a Marshall Plan for Moms (1:15-2:15 p.m. EDT)

 

Panelist Bios

Opening Remarks

Melissa Murray

Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU and the Faculty Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network. Professor Murray is a leading expert in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice, whose work has been published in numerous law journals. She is an author of Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice, the first casebook to cover the field of reproductive rights and justice, and a co-editor of Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, and provides commentary for popular media outlets, NPR, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, PBS, and the Strict Scrutiny podcast, of which she is a co-host. Professor Murray is an honors graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School, where she was notes development editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, Murray clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, then of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Stefan Underhill of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Professor Murray was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was the recipient of the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. From March 2016 to June 2017, she served as interim dean of the Berkeley Law.


Panel 1: Taking Stock: America’s Care Economy in 2021

Caitlin Millat '18

Caitlin Millat ’18 (Moderator) is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship focuses on public education law and policy, with a particular focus on structural and systemic reform in K-12 public education. Before joining the Climenko program, Caitlin clerked for Judge Norman H. Stahl of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Victor A. Bolden of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Prior to clerking, Caitlin was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where her practice focused on general commercial litigation. Her work, Pandemics, Privatization, and the Family (with Melissa Murray) has been published in the NYU Law Review Online. Caitlin holds a BA in journalism and English from New York University and a Masters of Science in Education from Hunter College, with a focus in childhood education. Before beginning her legal studies, Caitlin worked as a teacher and an academic dean at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York.

Mara Bolis

Mara Bolis is Associate Director of Women’s Economic Rights in Oxfam’s Gender Justice and Inclusion Hub. Mara oversees and partners with other teams to advance women's economic rights through strategy development, program design, advocacy, fundraising, and team management. Under her leadership, the WER team coordinated a 20+ country campaign on gender justice amid the coronavirus crisis with expansive social media engagement, estimated media reach of 440 million people and legislative action in the US. She was lead author on an ambitious 5-country Oxfam report on the implications of unpaid care on women's livelihoods and health amid coronavirus conditions. Our team support savings group programming in El Salvador, Guatemala, Cambodia, Timor Leste, and Laos and women’s economic empowerment programming in Vietnam, Philippines and Honduras. Mara is also the global lead on the Women in Small Enterprise initiative, which includes Oxfam America’s first impact investing fund that focuses on women entrepreneurs in Latin America. She has over 20 years of experience working in the fields of women’s empowerment, international development, and emerging markets finance. Prior to Oxfam, Mara consulted with the Middle East Investment Initiative to develop a new form of small business insurance to help Palestinian exporters hindered by travel restrictions. Prior to that she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an emerging markets financial sector analyst. She has worked with various international finance and development organizations, including US Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the World Bank. She has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Mara speaks fluent Latvian.

Fatima Goss Graves

Fatima Goss Graves is the president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center and among the co-founders of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. Prior to becoming President, Ms. Goss Graves served as the Center’s Senior Vice President for Program, where she led the organization’s broad program agenda to advance progress and eliminate barriers in employment, education, health and reproductive rights and lift women and families out of poverty. Prior to that, as the Center’s Vice President for Education and Employment, she led the Center’s anti-discrimination initiatives, including work to promote equal pay, combat harassment and sexual assault at work and at school, and advance equal access to education programs, with a particular focus on outcomes for women and girls of color. Ms. Goss Graves has authored many articles. Ms. Goss Graves received her BA from UCLA in 1998 and her JD from Yale Law School in 2001. She began her career as a litigator at the law firm of Mayer Brown LLP after clerking for the Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She currently serves as an advisor on the American Law Institute Project on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus and was on the EEOC Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace and a Ford Foundation Public Voices Fellow.

Betsey Stevenson

Betsey Stevenson is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. She is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting associate professor of economics at the University of Sydney, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and serves on the executive committee of the American Economic Association. She served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2015 where she advised President Obama on social policy, labor market, and trade issues. She served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011, advising the Secretary of Labor on labor policy and participating as the secretary's deputy to the White House economic team. She has held previous positions at Princeton University and at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.Dr. Stevenson is a labor economist who has published widely in leading economics journals about the labor market and the impact of public policies on outcomes both in the labor market and for families as they adjust to changing labor market opportunities. Her research explores women's labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and how these labor market experiences and economic forces on the family influence each other. She is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and her analysis of economic data and the economy are frequently covered in both print and television media. Dr. Stevenson earned a BA in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College and an MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Haeyoung Yoon

Haeyoung Yoon is Senior Policy Director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). Over the course of her career, Haeyoung worked on low-wage and immigrant workers rights issues. In February, Haeyoung was appointed by President Biden to serve on the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force and chairs the Subcommittee on Structural Drivers and Xenophobia. Prior to NDWA, Haeyoung was Distinguished Taconic Fellow at Community Change, working on immigration issues. Haeyoung also worked at the National Employment Law Project as the Director of Strategic Partnership and a Deputy Program Director, where co-directed a program area that combines policy design, campaign support, advocacy, research, and strategic communication to expand economic opportunity and security for working people in our economy. Haeyoung has extensive litigation experience. At the Urban Justice Center, she represented low-wage and immigrant workers working in service industries, including domestic work, restaurant, and construction in wage and hour litigation. She was one of the lead counsel in Iqbal v. Ashcroft, a civil rights case on behalf of two South Asian and Arab immigrant men who were wrongfully detained and subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment and discrimination in a detention center in the aftermath of 9/11. She was awarded a Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist by Public Justice in 2006 for Iqbal v. Ashcroft. Haeyoung co-directed the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the New York University School of Law and taught at the Brooklyn Law School.
 

Panel 2: Looking Forward: Reimagining an Equitable Care Infrastructure

LaToya Baldwin Clark

LaToya Baldwin Clark (Moderator) is an Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Previously, she was an Earl B. Dickerson Fellow and Lecturer in Law at University of Chicago Law School. She writes and teaches about education law, family law, property law, and race and discrimination. Baldwin Clark received her BS in Economics cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her MA from the University of Pennsylvania in Criminology. She then earned her PhD from Stanford University in Sociology and her JD from Stanford Law School. While at Stanford, Baldwin Clark was a Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence Fellow and held a Stanford Graduate Fellowship. After law school, Baldwin Clark clerked for the Honorable Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California as well as to the Honorable Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court. Baldwin Clark’s publications have appeared or will appear in the Virginia Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Sociological Inquiry, The Modern American, and Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education among others.

Tim Allen

Tim Allen is the CEO of Care.com, responsible for the company’s strategic direction, leadership and growth, as well as its commitment to deliver on its mission to transform and improve how families around the world connect with and manage care for their loved ones. A 15-year veteran of media and technology company IAC (Nasdaq: IAC), Tim has played pivotal roles shaping the early days of well-known IAC brands like Vimeo and Ask.com, and has held leadership, operations and management positions at dozens of other IAC portfolio companies in categories such as search, mobile software and video. Most recently as founder and CEO of IAC’s Mosaic Group, Tim led the acquisition of more than a dozen mobile software developers globally to bootstrap what is now a thriving collection of award-winning mobile subscription products—including iTranslate, Robokiller and Daily Burn— that collectively counts 4 million paying subscribers across 40+ titles. A major contributor to IAC, Mosaic Group generated nearly $200 million of revenue in 2019. Tim earned his MBA from Northeastern University, a BS in Information Technology from the University of Massachusetts and completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Rhian Horgan

Rhian Horgan, former Managing Director at JPMorgan, is the founder and CEO of Silvur, the first and only fintech platform dedicated to helping those over 50 retire with confidence. Silvur's Retirement School helps them navigate key retirement decisions like Social Security, Medicare, Pre-retirement healthcare and Taxes & Retirement. Prior to becoming CEO of Silvur, Rhian worked for 17 years at JP Morgan where she advised individuals and families on investments, credit and wealth planning. She is widely quoted in the press, including The New York Times, Forbes, CNBC, American Banker and is a frequent commentator on Yahoo Finance. She resides in New York with her husband and two young children. She holds a BA in Finance and Public Policy from the College of William and Mary.

Rep. Grace Meng

Rep. Grace Meng, Member, U.S. House of Representatives (NY-6) is serving her third term in the United States House of Representatives. Grace represents the Sixth Congressional District of New York encompassing the New York City borough of Queens, including west, central and northeast Queens. Grace is the first Asian American Member of Congress from New York State, and the only Congressmember of Asian descent in the entire Northeast. She is also the first female Member of Congress from Queens since former Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. Grace is a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and its Subcommittees on State and Foreign Operations, and Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. The Appropriations Committee is responsible for funding every federal agency, program, and project within the United States government. Previously, Grace served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Small Business Committee. Grace is also a Senior Whip and Regional Whip for New York, and a founder and Co-Chair of the Kids’ Safety Caucus, the first bipartisan coalition in the House that promotes child-safety issues. She helped create and serves as a founding member and former Co-Chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus which works to mitigate excessive aircraft noise that adversely affects communities. Born in Elmhurst, Queens, and raised in the Bayside and Flushing sections of the borough, Grace attended local schools, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the University of Michigan. She then earned a law degree from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. Prior to serving in Congress, Grace was a member of the New York State Assembly. Before entering public service, she worked as a public-interest lawyer. Grace resides in Queens with her husband Wayne, and two sons, Tyler and Brandon.

Dr. Aisha Nyandoro

Dr. Aisha Nyandoro is the CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, a Jackson, MS, nonprofit that uses a “radically resident-driven” approach to end generational poverty. In 2018, she created the Magnolia Mother’s Trust — now the country’s longest-running guaranteed income program, and the only one in the world to focus on Black women. In addition to leading Springboard’s community work and growing the Magnolia Mother’s Trust exponentially, Aisha is focused on shifting gendered and racialized narratives around poverty and deservedness, and working to show how the success of the Trust can be scaled nationally through policies like the expanded Child Tax Credit and a federal guaranteed income. Her expertise on economic, racial and gender justice issues is regularly featured in outlets including The Washington Post, Amanpour & Company, Essence Magazine, NBC Nightly News and CNN. She is a TEDx speaker and a fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network and Ascend at the Aspen Institute. She holds a BA from Tennessee State University, and an MA and PhD from Michigan State University. She lives in Jackson with her husband and two very charming sons.
 

Leadership Roundtable: Reflections on a Marshall Plan for Moms

Jennifer Weiss Wolf

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf (Moderator) is a former vice president for development at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she led the department for over a decade and oversaw the Center’s exponential growth in revenue across all portfolios. She is now spearheading a brand new publishing initiative out of the Office of the President. A frequent writer and advocate on issues of gender, feminism, and politics in America, Weiss-Wolf is also the Brennan Center’s inaugural women and democracy fellow. As part of her work to commemorate the organization’s 20th anniversary, she conceptualized and coedited the Brennan Center’s 2015 volume Legal Change: Lesson’s from America’s Social Movements. She is the author of Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity (Arcade 2017), lauded by Gloria Steinem as “the beginning of liberation for us all.” Periods Gone Public earned starred reviews by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal; the Washington Post called it “a riveting read . . . and a promising call to smart activism.” Weiss-Wolf is a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and Newsweek. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Bloomberg, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, Glamour, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. She earned a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was editor in chief of the Cardozo Women’s Law Journal, and an AB from Lafayette College.

Gary Barker

Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities. He is the CEO and founder of Promundo, which has worked for 20 years in more than 40 countries. Beginning in low-income areas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Promundo’s approaches have been incorporated into ministries of health and education around the world. Promundo is a Global Consortium with members in Brazil, the US, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Portugal. Gary is co-founder of MenCare, a global campaign working in 45 countries to promote men’s involvement as caregivers, and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 700 NGOs. He co-created and leads the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), the largest-ever survey of men’s attitudes and behaviors related to violence, fatherhood, and gender equality. He is a co-author of the 2015 and 2017 State of the World's Fathers reports. He has advised the UN, the World Bank, numerous national governments, and key international foundations and corporations on strategies to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality. In 2017 he was named by Apolitical as one of the 20 most influential people in gender policy around the world. He is an Ashoka Fellow and received the Voices of Solidarity Award from Vital Voices for his work to engage men for gender equality. He holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology.

Bernard Coleman

Bernard Coleman is the Chief Diversity and Engagement Officer at Gusto where he leads the Employee Engagement team which encompasses our diversity, equity and inclusion, employee relations and people integrity/governance/compliance functions. Prior to Gusto, Bernard led diversity efforts at Uber and before that, directed Hillary for America’s HR and D&I efforts, and was the first ever Chief Diversity and HR Officer in U.S. history for any presidential campaign. His insights have appeared in The New York Times, TIME, TechCrunch and USA Today. Bernard holds an MBA from Trinity University; a BA in psychology from Hampton University; a Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Management certification from Georgetown University; and is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.

Sarita Gupta

Sarita Gupta is director of the foundation’s Future of Work(ers) program, leading the team that oversees Ford’s efforts to actively shape a future of work that puts workers and their well-being at the center. Sarita joined the foundation with more than 20 years of experience working to expand people’s ability to come together to improve their workplaces, their communities, and their lives by creating solutions to the problems they face. She has deep expertise in policy advocacy, organizing, and building partnerships across the workers’ rights and care movements, having served as executive director of Jobs With Justice and co-director of Caring Across Generations. She is a nationally recognized expert on the economic, labor, and political issues affecting working people, and is widely acknowledged as a key leader and strategist in the progressive movement. As co-director of Caring Across Generations, Sarita spearheaded the campaign calling for policy solutions that create a much-needed care infrastructure that provides high-quality, affordable options for people who need care, support for family caregivers, and that strengthens the care workforce. Caring Across Generations was instrumental in paving the way for the Home Care Rule, the effort to provide minimum wage and overtime protections for two million home care workers. The campaign was also successful in winning state funding for the Kupuna Caregivers Program in Hawaii, which provides a financial benefit to working family caregivers. And, most recently, it shepherded the Washington Long-Term Care Trust Act into law, establishing the first state-based, public, long-term care program in the nation.

Dee Poku

Dee Poku is the founder and CEO of The WIE Suite, a private membership community and peer learning platform for women in leadership. In addition to providing its members with the community and tools to succeed at the highest levels, The WIE Suite supports brands and corporations with their culture building and diversity initiatives. A former Hollywood studio executive, Dee’s background includes senior marketing roles at Paramount Pictures and Focus Features (a division of Universal Pictures). She oversaw the international campaigns on numerous award-winning films including Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth; the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men & O Brother Where Art Thou; Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel & 21 Grams and Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. Dee was named one of Marie Claire Magazine’s 50 women changing the world among other accolades. She serves on the Board of Directors of the British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA) and the Brooklyn Bridge Conservancy and was previously on the Credit Suisse New Markets Women’s Advisory Board. She is also an advisor to various startups including Girl Gaze, Paint Box, Female Founders Collective and The Wonder. She also serves as a contributor to Forbes Women.


Closing Remarks

Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is a leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms. She has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and most recently advocating for policies to support moms impacted by the pandemic. She is the mother of two boys, Shaan, 6, and Sai, 1.