Leila Jade Levi, JD
Senior Counsel for Reproductive Rights and Health
National Women's Law Center
Leila is Senior Counsel for Reproductive Rights and Health at the National Women's Law Center (NWLC). She spearheads NWLC’s work developing legal supports for health care professionals facing employment barriers and discrimination due to their support for or participation in abortion services. She gives Know Your Rights presentations on these issues and consults with individual health care professionals across the country regarding instances of discrimination or other barriers to their participating in abortion care.
Prior to joining the National Women's Law center, she was an Attorney-Advisor at the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the Civil Rights, Labor, and Employment Law Division, Litigation Section. She defended the USDA in civil lawsuits alleging discrimination before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Merit Systems Protection Board, and Federal Court. She is currently serving her eighth year on the Board of Directors for the Hispanic Bar Association of DC as Immediate Past President.
From 2012-2014, Leila was Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia, where she completed 15 trials as a first chair trial attorney. She was a misdemeanor prosecutor in the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence section and also worked in the Civil Division at the USAO, defending the federal government in civil actions. Leila has worked as a volunteer pro bono attorney with the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project representing Spanish-speaking women in civil protection order hearings.
Prior to law school at American University Washington College of Law, she attended culinary school in Florence, Italy. Leila received her B.A. in political science from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and is from Miami Beach, FL.
Senior Counsel for Reproductive Rights and Health
National Women's Law Center
Leila is Senior Counsel for Reproductive Rights and Health at the National Women's Law Center (NWLC). She spearheads NWLC’s work developing legal supports for health care professionals facing employment barriers and discrimination due to their support for or participation in abortion services. She gives Know Your Rights presentations on these issues and consults with individual health care professionals across the country regarding instances of discrimination or other barriers to their participating in abortion care.
Prior to joining the National Women's Law center, she was an Attorney-Advisor at the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the Civil Rights, Labor, and Employment Law Division, Litigation Section. She defended the USDA in civil lawsuits alleging discrimination before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Merit Systems Protection Board, and Federal Court. She is currently serving her eighth year on the Board of Directors for the Hispanic Bar Association of DC as Immediate Past President.
From 2012-2014, Leila was Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia, where she completed 15 trials as a first chair trial attorney. She was a misdemeanor prosecutor in the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence section and also worked in the Civil Division at the USAO, defending the federal government in civil actions. Leila has worked as a volunteer pro bono attorney with the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project representing Spanish-speaking women in civil protection order hearings.
Prior to law school at American University Washington College of Law, she attended culinary school in Florence, Italy. Leila received her B.A. in political science from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and is from Miami Beach, FL.
