Wendy Lazarus
Director
The Children's Partnership

Wendy is Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Children's Partnership. She has spent nearly twenty-five years working on the front lines as a children's advocate to secure improved health care, child support and other needed supports for children and families. Her many faceted career includes serving as the Children's Defense Fund's first Director of Health, as founding Vice President for Policy for Children Now, and as consultant to the Conrad Hilton and Piton Foundations. Wendy has authored numerous reports and articles on a wide range of children's issues, spearheaded many successful policy reform efforts, and serves as a board member or advisor to national, state, and community-based organizations and companies. She graduated in Yale University's first class of women graduates, and received her Master's degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina.

Back to participants>>