Vivien Labaton
As the Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives based in New York, Vivien Labaton works with the programmes to develop grantmaking strategies to best implement Atlantic’s social justice framework. In addition, she is leading the foundation’s cross-programme efforts in the U.S., which focus on fostering collaborations across the programmes and geographies.
She joined Atlantic in 2007 as a Fellow. In that capacity, she worked with senior leadership on special projects and managed the portfolio of grants to strengthen civil liberties and human rights weakened as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, and the ensuing “war on terror.”
Prior to joining Atlantic, Ms. Labaton was a staff attorney and a Blackmun Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and a law clerk to Judge Constance Baker Motley in the Southern District of New York. Before attending law school, Ms. Labaton was the Founding Director of the Third Wave Foundation, the only national philanthropic organisation run by and for young women. She was also a long-time consultant to Gloria Steinem.
Ms. Labaton is a graduate of Barnard College and NYU Law School, and is an editor of The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism. She has served on the boards of Third Wave, the Women’s Funding Network and Political Research Associates. She also is an Advisory Board member of Chicken & Egg Pictures.
