Julie F. Kay, Founder and CEO of Reproductive Futures, is an experienced and passionate advocate in the US and globally. She is a well-recognized legal expert, author, and strategist who has been a pioneering voice on telemedicine abortion. Kay began her legal career at the Center for Reproductive Rights litigating reproductive rights cases nationwide. She moved to Ireland where she served as the lead attorney who designed and litigated the landmark case ABC v. Ireland, successfully arguing before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights that Ireland's ban on life-saving abortion violated her client’s human rights. Kay's legal work with the Irish Family Planning Association is credited with playing a vital role in abortion legalization in Ireland. She is the co-author, with Kathryn Kolbert, of Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT). Kay attended Harvard University and Brooklyn Law School before clerking for US District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf. Kay participates in extensive board service and is a parent of two daughters.

Viviana Waisman, Founding Principal Advisor, leads Reproductive Futures’ efforts to bring global learnings to the United States, including developing legal–medical alliances that expand access to reproductive health care in restrictive environments and safeguard post-abortion care. She also serves as an advisor to the CEO on organizational strategy.

Originally from Argentina, Waisman is a U.S.-educated attorney and expert in women’s and human rights law. She has extensive experience designing and litigating cases before national, regional, and international bodies across Latin America, Europe, East Africa, and the United States. Before joining Reproductive Futures, she founded GenEq, an initiative that promotes cross-regional learning and the exchange of legal strategies to advance human rights through an intersectional gender lens, and she served for more than 20 years as the founder and CEO of Women’s Link Worldwide.

Waisman holds a Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, a Juris Doctor from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Emma Roth, Senior Counsel at Reproductive Futures, advances the organization's legislative advocacy and litigation to bolster nationwide protections for reproductive healthcare. Previously, she served for five years as a senior attorney at Pregnancy Justice, where she engaged in impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education to combat the criminalization of pregnancy throughout the U.S. South. She also served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, where she brought litigation across the country to further the rights of women and girls. Roth clerked for Judge Ronnie Abrams on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University. Roth brings to her advocacy her personal experience as the mother of two young children.

Kate Ross, Senior Legal Fellow at Reproductive Futures, supports legislative advocacy efforts to expand and protect shield laws and increase access to reproductive healthcare nationwide. Her work also focuses on supporting emergency room care for pregnancy and post-abortion complications. Previously, Kate served as a Legal Fellow at the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine working to expand the availability of telemedicine abortion. While in law school, she participated in a year-long Reproductive Justice Clinic focused on strengthening access to abortion and reproductive health services. Kate is a graduate of NYU School of Law and the University of Virginia.