The Costa Report - October 7, 2011 Terry O'Neill

Terry O'Neill is the President of the National Organization for Women. She is also President of the NOW Foundation and chair of the NOW Political Action Committees, and serves as the principal spokesperson for all three entities. She oversees NOW's multi-issue agenda, which includes: advancing reproductive freedom, promoting diversity and ending racism, stopping violence against women, winning lesbian rights, ensuring economic justice, ending sex discrimination and achieving constitutional equality for women. She has fought for equal rights as President of Louisiana NOW and New Orleans NOW, and as a member of the National Racial Diversity Committee. She is also a former law professor that has taught at Tulane University and at the University of California at Davis, where her courses included feminist legal theory and international women's rights law, in addition to corporate law and legal ethics.