Andi Friedman is a lawyer and advocate with extensive ties in the women's rights and progressive
communities. She currently serves as Executive Director of a national organization that provides
funding and other resources to organizations throughout the reproductive health, rights, justice and
broader progressive community to develop and run communications campaigns on abortion.
Previously as Director of Reproductive Health and Senior Policy Advisor for Reproductive Health at
the National Partnership for Women & Families, Friedman successfully led her team to develop
and implement a new vision for defending and expanding access to abortion and contraception. Prior to joining
the Partnership she served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the late Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) where she
covered international family planning and foreign aid, military and veterans affairs and trade. She has also worked
internationally as a human rights lawyer as Vice President and Co-Founder of the Global Justice Center, leading
trainings around the globe on women's rights and international law. She began her career in women's rights as
one of the first staff of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where
she promoted research and programming on women and policy and helped launch the Women Waging Peace
Network. Friedman has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA summa cum laude from Tufts University.