Andi friedman

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.