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Nancy Northup
I look forward to a time when a woman's right to control her reproductive life is secured as a fundamental human right, which cannot be denied in the name of religion, culture, or politics.
Known For: President of the Center for Reproductive Rights
Faith: Christianity
Country: United States
About
Nancy Northup is the President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women’s reproductive freedom. She joined the Center in 2003 and has since led the organization in new directions with innovation and creativity. Under her supervision the international program has expanded, including the implementation of an international litigation campaign involving the first abortion case of the UN Human Rights Committee and the first case to frame preventable maternal deaths as a violation of human rights. Bringing the human rights framework into its work in the U.S, it now documents U.S. human rights violations and demands U.S. accountability before U.N. assemblies that monitor compliance with international treaty obligations. In 2008 Northup initiated the Center’s Law School project to promote legal scholarship and teaching on reproductive health and human rights, the laws of which are not yet generally taught in American Law Schools.
Before leading the Center, Northup founded and directed the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. She previously served as a prosecutor and Deputy Chief of Appeals in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and as a law clerk for the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. A graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School, she was a Kent Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review. As an adjunct teacher at NYU Law School and Columbia Law School she has taught courses in constitutional and human rights law.
Northup is widely quotes in national publications from her public speeches, and has made appearances on ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, FOX News, PBS, MSNBC and NPR.
A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, she has taught Children and Youth Religious Education classes and formerly served as President of the Board of Trustees of All Souls Church on NYC’s Upper East Side.
