THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Leah Margulies

“We’re the generation that had an opportunity to change things – and we did.”

Human Right’s Advocate, Policy Maker, Attorney, Author. Organizer and Member of New Haven Women’s Liberation. Founding Member of the New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band. Co-director Women’s Research Project. Director, Infant Formula Program, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Founder and Former Chair of INFACT (Infant Formula Action Coalition), the international advocacy campaign known as the Nestle Boycott. Founding Member of the International Baby Foods Network, dedicated to the enforcement of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. Former Board Member, Corporate Accountability (formerly INFACT). Currently, Staff Attorney, CAMBA Legal Services, Brooklyn, NY.

Interviewed by Kathy Rand, April 2019

Photo 1. Leah Margulies. Photo 2. Leah in 1972, New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band.