PPHP Votes is pleased to honor Robi Schlaff with the Unsung S/Hero Award and Fran Snedeker with the Outstanding Advocate Award. Learn more about the honorees below.
Celebrate these champions for reproductive justice with us on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at Cocktails, Conversations, and Champions!
Robi Schlaff, Esq., is the director of the Westchester County Office for Women. Prior to this appointment she was the Executive Director of the Westchester Family Justice Center, which she continues to oversee. As director she is the chair of the Domestic Violence Council, and a member of the 9th JD Gender Fairness Committee, Access to Justice Committee and is the recipient of the EVAWI (End Violence against Women International) game changer award.
For the majority of her legal career, Robi practiced family law, representing children in custody and abuse cases, adult victims of domestic violence, acted as a family law mediator and also practiced real estate law. Robi spent many years in government, as legislative director for New York State Assembly Member Pete Grannis, as assistant to the County Executive, as special counsel to Commissioner Pete Grannis of the NYS Department of Environmental Protection and for the last ten years in her current position.
Robi considers herself a policy wonk – and loves working on the development and implementation of programs. The current Office for Women Domestic Violence High Risk Team is an example of partners working together, led by the Office for Women, to increase safety for families experiencing domestic violence. Robi won the End Violence Against Women International Game-Changer award for this initiative. Prior initiatives include the Pace Women’s Justice Center/Legal Services Family Court Legal Program, the multi-disciplinary child abuse investigation team, and the NYS Sea Level Rise Task Force. Robi is an active member of the Black Maternal Health Workgroup of Sister to Sister International.
Robi received her J.D. from Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, where she was a member of the law review and her B.A. from SUNY Albany. She lectures and trains on matters related to family violence. In her personal life, she is a life-long advocate for women’s rights, including decades of reproductive health advocacy.
In tattered school houses, in backwater urban housing projects, in jailhouse assembly rooms, in church halls, and in the wall-less classrooms of the world wide web, Fran Snedeker has served on the frontline helping young women and children acquire the knowledge they need to make informed choices about their sexuality and their positive potential as women. For over 35 years, she has served as a volunteer or staff for a variety of nonprofit agencies and has continued to contribute to the ongoing campaign to obliterate barriers to every family’s right to privacy and modern reproductive health care.
After serving with the Peace Corps in Togo and the Ivory Coast, Fran returned to the states and became the Executive Director of Women In Action, an organization that provides paralegal and social services to incarcerated women. She later went on to produce and moderate Future Choices, an educational TV series focusing on reproductive health care.
Fran has served as a board member for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Action Fund, Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas, Engender Heath, and National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, where she devised strategies for protection and enhancement of reproductive rights. Fran has advocated for reproductive rights in the legislative halls of Texas, New York, and Washington, DC; she has been a Day of Action attendee with Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic for over 20 years.
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