Shel Lyons, J.D., Harvard Law School, is the founder and president of
the Mothers’ Rights Network.  She
also serves on the Grassroots Advocates Committee for the Coalition for Improving Maternity
Services, where she is the Legal Committee Chair for The Birth Survey and the Consumer
Council Representative for the National Quality Forum. Since earning
her degree from Harvard Law School, she clerked for the Honorable Sharon Prost
on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and worked at the U.S.
Department of Justice.  She currently focuses on the intersection of gender
and health law, including birth and breastfeeding rights, and is a
guest author on Change.org’s women’s rights blog.