Board & Staff
Board of Directors
David W. Kaplan, MD, MPH (Chair)
School of Medicine, University of Colorado
David Kaplan is a professor of adolescent medicine in Denver, Colorado. He has chaired the Committee on Adolescence for the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a long-time leader in the school-based health clinics field.
Claire Brindis, DrPH
National Adolescent Health Information Center
University of California, San Francisco
Claire Brindis is a public health researcher and professor at the University of California at San Francisco and is a nationally recognized expert in adolescent health, reproductive health policy, and evaluation.
Margaret Crosby, JD (Secretary)
ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Inc.
Margaret Crosby is an attorney with the ACLU of Northern California who for more than two decades has played a leadership role in the field of privacy and reproductive rights.
Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LLB
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
Nancy Dubler is an attorney on the medical school faculty at Montefiore Medical Center in New York who has extensive expertise in clinical and research ethics, particularly regarding special populations of adolescents, the HIV epidemic, and reproductive health.
Abigail English, JD (President)
Center for Adolescent Health & the Law
Abigail English is Director and President of the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law and has more than 25 years of expertise in the legal and policy issues of adolescent health.
James Wagoner
Advocates for Youth
James Wagoner is President of Advocates for Youth, a national organization dedicated to the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents, and has more than two decades of experience in federal policy, media relations, and reproductive rights.
On-site Staff
Abigail English, JD (Director)
Abigial English has worked on legal and policy issues affecting adolescents’ access to health care for more than 25 years. She has participated in major litigation affecting the legal rights of children and adolescents, authored numerous publications, lectured widely to youth-serving professionals, and taught courses in public policy, law, and public health at University of California, Berkeley and the University of North Carolina. She served on the Advisory Panel for the Adolescent Health Study of the Office of Technology Assessment and the Forum on Adolescence of the Institute of Medicine. Her work has been recognized with the National Child Advocacy Award from the Young Lawyers’ Division of the American Bar Association in 1997 and the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Adolescent Medicine from the Society for Adolescent Medicine in 2000.
Amy J. Stinnett, MPA (Deputy Director)
Amy J. Stinnett has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from West Virginia University and a Certification in Nonprofit Management from Duke University. She has both programmatic and administrative responsibilities for the Center that include budgeting and tracking of grant expenditures, editing and layout of publications, dissemination of Center materials, planning of meetings, tracking of technical assistance requests, and management of the Center’s website and databases.