Kara Loewentheil
Author and coach; former Director, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project, Columbia Law School
If you can’t control when you’re pregnant and when you’re not, and when you have children and when you don't, there is just no way to participate equally with men.
Kara Loewentheil is an author and coach. She previously directed the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, where she was also a Research Fellow, and her scholarship focused on religious exemptions, reproductive rights, and feminist legal theory. Before joining Columbia Law School, she was a Post-Doctoral Associate-in-Law and Fellow at Yale Law School. From 2010 to 2012, she litigated in state and federal court as a Blackmun Legal Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and from 2008 to 2010, she clerked for the Honorable James L. Dennis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She was a regular speaker on religious exemptions and reproductive and sexual rights, presenting her work at Harvard Law School, Northeastern Law School, and Boston University Law School, among others.