Diane Rosenfield

Diane Rosenfield

Diane L. Rosenfeld J.D. LL.M is Founding Director of the Gender Violence Program and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Her breakthrough legal work, research, and arguments have appeared in the NYTimes, Washington Post, Glamour, and more. Her op-eds have been featured in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, cnn.com, and the Harvard Crimson. She served as the first Senior Counsel to the Office on Violence Against Women at the U.S. Department of Justice and as an Executive Assistant Attorney General in Illinois. In 2007, she created and taught the first legal seminar on Title IX in the country, which continues to this day at Harvard Law School. She also advised the Obama Administration on the prevention of campus sexual assault and contributed to the Presidential Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault. She is the recipient of multiple awards including the Shatter the Ceiling Award from Harvard Law School and the Ms. JD “Woman of Inspiration” Award. She is a keynote speaker and lecturer at conferences, organizations, and universities throughout the world.