Dr. Michele Goodwin is a distinguished professor at Georgetown Law School. She holds the O'Neill Chair in Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the O'Neill Institute For National and Global Health Policy. She is an acclaimed author, commentator, and advocate. Her writings and commentary appear in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, among others. She is a frequent contributor to Ms. Magazine and the host of their On The Issues podcast. Her extensive investigations on the conditions of women and girls has included field research in Europe, South and Central America, Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Africa. Dr. Goodwin is the author of six books, including the award-winning Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood and more than 100 articles and commentaries. In 2023, she won the California Women's Law Center Pursuit of Justice Award and in 2022 was bestowed the Margaret Brent Award by the American Bar Association.