Nancy Northup has been the President & CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights since 2003. During these years, she has opened four overseas offices to ensure reproductive health and freedom is conceived as a fundamental human right and has established the Center as an international resource for litigation strategy and innovation. She was previously the founding director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a prosecutor and Deputy Chief of Appeals in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and a law clerk to the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.