Jaclyn hails from Dallas, Texas, and is the proud daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. She is the Director of Congressional Relations, Reproductive Health, at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she manages the organization’s relationships on the Hill and its key legislative priorities on abortion and contraception. Jaclyn is passionate about working with Congress on reproductive rights through an intersectional and racial justice lens that centers the full lived experiences of people who can become pregnant.

Prior to joining the National Partnership, Jaclyn was the Policy and Government Affairs Director at the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, where she worked at the intersection of reproductive health and immigrant rights. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco and worked for Annie’s List, which helps elect pro-choice, Democratic women to statewide office in Texas.

Jaclyn holds a BA in Political Science and Sociology from Rice University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. Outside of work, she can be found working author events with Loyalty Bookstore in DC, reading, bouldering, doing yoga, crocheting, and caring for her houseplants and fluffy orange cat.

Michelle Feit is the Director of Congressional Relations, Economic Justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Michelle develops and executes federal legislative strategy for the National Partnership’s economic justice portfolio, which focuses on policies that promote workplace equity and combat discrimination. Her key issues are paid family and medical leave, paid sick days, and any policy related to workplace leave; fair pay; pregnancy discrimination; and workplace harassment.

Prior to joining the National Partnership, Michelle spent five years on Capitol Hill serving on the policy teams for Senator Barbara Mikulski and Congresswoman Jackie Speier. While on Senator Mikulski’s team, she led the effort to bring the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument into the National Park System. Outside of work, Michelle has volunteered with Jews United for Justice, the DC Paid Family Leave Campaign, and various national and local political campaigns. A lifelong Marylander, Michelle lives in Silver Spring with her husband and child, and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland.

Jessi Leigh Swenson is Director, Congressional Relations, Health Justice, at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she manages the National Partnership’s federal government relations and cross-movement strategic partnerships on reproductive health, rights and justice issues. She joined the National Partnership in 2015 as the senior policy counsel for reproductive health and rights. Jessi Leigh has nearly a decade of experience in building effective coalitions to move federal policies forward for women and families. Prior to her work at the National Partnership, she was the Federal Policy Director at the National Abortion Federation, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Rights4Girls, and was an If/When/How and Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow. Jessi Leigh hails from Maine and attended Hampshire College and UC Hastings College of the Law. She loves climbing, boxing, reading and spending time with her partner and their beautiful strong daughter.

Dvora Lovinger is the Vice President of Congressional Relations and Social Impact at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she leads the development and implementation of the organization’s congressional relations strategy and promotes corporate engagement for social impact.

Dvora has more than two decades of experience working on Capitol Hill in both the House and Senate. Most recently, she served as Chief of Staff for Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD), where she was the Congressman’s top advisor on all legislative, political, and communications issues. She also held several roles in the office of former Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and has experience with non-profit organizations, including advocating for affordable housing issues at Enterprise Community Partners. She began her professional career working on women’s equality and reproductive justice at the Feminist Majority Foundation.

Dvora has a bachelor’s degree in English from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s degree in political science along with a graduate certificate in Women, Policy & Leadership from American University.

Jesse Matton is the director of corporate social impact policies on the congressional relations and social impact team. Jesse builds alliances with corporations and other private sector stakeholders to identify common policy priorities and develop partnerships that further joint policy goals and systems change. Jesse also leads the National Partnership’s Business Working Group for Gender Equity and works collaboratively with the Economic Justice and Health Justice teams to make an impact in the private sector.

Jesse comes to the National Partnership with over 10 years of nonprofit experience, which covered partnerships, operations, and programming related to social investments, corporate citizenship and ESG strategy. Jesse was the Director of Economic Opportunity and Empowerment at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Center where she led strategic programming and partnership opportunities to further the business communities’ impact on women’s economic empowerment, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality, supplier diversity, and inclusive entrepreneurship.

Jesse hails from Northern Virginia and attended University of Tennessee where she studied International Business, Russian, and Economics. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband, son, and dog.