Governance
NYRA is a 501(c)(3) organization registered as a nonprofit corporation in Maryland.
It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, including Samantha Godwin, Eric Goldstein, Chris Hardy, Nigel Jones, Usiel Phoenix, Keith Mandell, Katrina Moncure, Kathleen Nicole O'Neal, and Jeffrey Nadel. Its officers include Usiel Phoenix as President, Jeffrey Nadel as Vice President, and Katrina Moncure as Secretary.
NYRA also maintains an influential Advisory Board, including Scarlett Swerdlow of Students for Sensible Drug Policy; Kevin Keenan of American Civil Liberties Union-San Diego; Adam Fletcher of The Freechild Project; Dr. Robert Epstein, author of The Case Against Adolescence; Dr. David J. Hanson of Potsdam University; activist Bennett Haselton of Peacefire; Grace Llewellyn, author of the Teenage Liberation Handbook; Dr. Mike A. Males, author of Framing Youth and of University of California, Santa Cruz; Dr. Roderic B. Park of University of Colorado; Nadine Strossen of the American Civil Liberties Union, and; Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H, of the American Council on Science.
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