Kim Gandy

Kim Gandy, Board Chair, is the president and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, where she leads the nation's foremost voice for domestic abuse victims and the advocates and programs that serve them. She previously served as vice president and general counsel at the Feminist Majority and the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 2001, Gandy was elected president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and chair of the NOW Foundation and political action committees. She served as president until being term-limited in 2009. Gandy also served as NOW's principal spokeswoman and is a well-known media commentator on women's rights. After leaving NOW, Gandy accepted a resident fellowship at Harvard University's Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. She was one of the lead organizers of the 2004 March for Women's Lives and a key organizer of the 1989 and 1992 marches. Gandy’s expertise in mass actions ensured that 1.2 million activists made the 2004 march for women's reproductive freedom the largest and most diverse grassroots mobilization in our nation's history.