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Alison Yager, Executive Director

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Alison is an attorney with over 20 years of experience in the non-profit and government sectors advocating on behalf of women, children and marginalized individuals.  She comes to Miami from New York, where she served most recently as the Director of Policy Initiatives for Maternal, Infant, and Reproductive Health at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.  Her work included collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to identify new policy and program initiatives, conducting analyses and developing policy briefs to support the generation of policy initiatives, and advocating for or against enactment of policies at all levels of government.

After graduating from UCLA School of Law’s Program in Public Interest Law and Policy in 2001, Ms. Yager was awarded an Equal Justice Works fellowship to provide legal services to young people at The Door's Legal Service Center in Manhattan, and subsequently worked as a Staff Attorney serving young people experiencing intimate partner violence at Break the Cycle- New York (now Day One).  From 2006 to 2014, Alison worked at HIV Law Project in New York, first as a Staff Attorney and then as Supervising Attorney for HIV Policy.  She began her career as a Community Organizer for the Children’s Defense Fund-NY.
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Education


University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, Juris Doctor, 2001

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, Bachelor of Arts, 1995
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Select Presentations and Publications


Costs of Unpaid Maternity Leave Disproportionately Impact Black and Latina Mothers, Presentation at CityMatCH Conference in Nashville, TN (September 2017)

Paid Leave: An Anti-Poverty Program for New York City Families, Presentation at Society for Research on Child Development Conference in Austin, TX (April 2017)

Askew, Kaplan, Slopen, Yager, et. al. Paid Family Leave: A Strategy for Promoting Health and Economic Equity for New York City’s Families, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2017).

Birds, Bees and Bias: How NY Sex Ed Standards Fail NY’s Students, Presentation at Women as the Face of AIDS Summit in New York, NY (May 2014)

HIV Testing and Confidentiality, in HIV & AIDS BENCH BOOK, Ch. 2 (Joshua Bachrach & Cynthia Knox, eds., 2d ed. 2012).
Goodman, Miller, Noel, Yager, et. al., Birds, Bees and Bias: How Absent Sex Ed Standards Fail New York’s Students, New York Civil Liberties Union (2012).

Supportive Social Services for Women: Essential to Improved Health Outcomes in the United States, Poster Presentation at International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. (July 2012)

License Denied: Professional and Vocational Licensing Restrictions Affecting People Living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, Presentation at International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. (July 2012)

Yager, Morain, et. al., Investing in Health: Supportive Services for Women Living with HIV/AIDS, HIV Law Project (2012).

Yager, Welsh, et. al., Will You Lead? A Guide to Grassroots Advocacy for Women Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS, HIV Law Project (2011).

Yager, Morain, et. al., Better Late Than Never: HIV Prevention Among Young Women and Girls, HIV Law Project (2009).
   
Yager, Britton, et. al., HIV Testing: Pregnant Women and Newborns, HIV Law Project (2009).
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Select Media


Yager, A., HIV Stigma Violently Rages On: We Must Do Better, June 30, 2014, Rewire News.

Yager, A., Today More than Ever, Young Black People Need HIV Prevention, February 7, 2013, Rewire News.

Yager, A., World AIDS DAY 2012: AIDS Funding Remains as Critical—and as Endangered—As Ever, November 29, 2012, Rewire News.

Yager, A., Why Does the President’s Budget Cut Critical Services for Women with HIV and AIDS?, March 10, 2012, Rewire News.

Yager, A., Getting to Zero on HIV and AIDS Means Investing in Supportive Services, December 1, 2011, Rewire News.

Yager, A., How HIV-Positive Women Drove a Grassroots Campaign for NYC’s Sex-Ed Mandate, August 12, 2011, Rewire News.

Yager, A., How Criminalization and Stigmatization Perpetuates the AIDS Epidemic, June 28, 2011, Rewire News.

Yager, A., New Study Supports Universal Access to AIDS Treatment for Preventing the Spread of HIV, May 18, 2011, Rewire News.

Yager, A., The HIV Epidemic Among Blacks: Social Services Cannot be Cut, February 7, 2011, Rewire News.

Yager, A., Routine HIV Testing Depends on Reimbursement, June 26, 2010, Rewire News.

Yager, A., Pre-Natal HIV Testing: What About Women’s Rights?, July 23, 2009, Rewire News.

Yager, A., Girls Have a Right to Know About HIV Prevention, March 10, 2009, Rewire News.
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Honors and Awards

2021                     Health Foundation of South Florida, Inspiring Women of Health

2001 - 2003     Equal Justice Works Fellowship

2000                     UCLA School of Law, Harrison Duff Public Interest Award

1995                     Swarthmore Foundation Grant
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Bar Member:  New York

Court Admissions:  2nd Cir., S. District

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