Leslie Gilbert-Lurie is an author, lawyer, human rights and chil­dren’s rights activist, for­mer tele­vi­sion exec­u­tive, and phil­an­thropist. She is a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tion­al Board of Direc­tors of Human Rights Watch, the Alliance for Chil­dren’s Rights Board of Direc­tors, and Boards of UCLA’s Law School, UCLA Med­ical Cen­ter, and the UCLA Foundation.