Staff

Marya Torrez, Senior Reproductive Health Policy Counsel

Marya Torrez is the senior reproductive health policy counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Torrez tracks and analyzes reproductive health related activity in Congress and federal agencies, advocates for policies supportive of reproductive health services, and helps to educate the public about reproductive health issues. Torrez joined the National Partnership in 2008 and spent two years creating legal guides for pregnant and parenting California minors and professionals who work with them. Torrez also serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Teen Alliance for Prepared Parenting (TAPP) initiative in the division of Women’s and Infants’ Services at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Before joining the National Partnership, Torrez was a women’s law & public policy fellow in the litigation team at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Prior to that, she spent a year working as a dorot judicial selection project fellow at Alliance for Justice, working on federal judicial nominees and access to justice issues. Before entering law school, Torrez developed programs for runaway, homeless, abused, neglected and otherwise disadvantaged youth and their families in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Torrez graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor on the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, helped start a Law Students for Choice (now Law Students for Reproductive Justice) chapter, and represented juvenile defendants through the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic. Torrez is currently pursuing a Masters of Law degree in Law and Government from American University Washington College of Law.