Nancy Hogshead is an Olympic champion, a civil rights lawyer, and CEO of Champion Women, a non-profit providing legal advocacy for girls and women in sports. Focus areas include equal play, such as traditional Title IX compliance, ending sexual harassment & abuse in sport, as well as addressing employment, pregnancy, and sexual orientation discrimination within sport. Hogshead led a 14-year effort to protect athletes from sexual abuse in club and Olympic sports, that is, the 16 million athletes participating in sports not associated with schools. Most recently, she galvanized the sport, child protection, and civil rights communities in support of a new federal law, the SafeSport Act, signed into law in February 2018. Olympic Committee reforms that include more development money and power to athletes, along with stronger gender equity protections, guide the near-future work. In 2020, she similarly gathered a coalition of support for the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athlete Act of 2020. Next, she was a member of a Federal Congressional Commission on the Olympics and Paralympics to review governance restructuring. See their final report here: https://www.csusop.org/Her book EQUAL PLAY, TITLE IX AND SOCIAL CHANGE, co-authored with Andrew Zimbalist, has received acclaim. She was the lead author of PREGNANT AND PARENTING STUDENT-ATHLETES: RESOURCES AND MODEL POLICIES, published by the NCAA.She and Champion Women are founding members of the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group; seeking to affirm the legal permissibility of formal sex segregation in sports and changing areas. She has served on the NCAA Task Force on Gender Equity, and on the boards of Equality League, the Association of Title IX Administrators, the Aspen Institute’s Sport and Society, the One Love Foundation, the editorial board of the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, and on the Executive Committee of the World Olympians Association. She was the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Committee on the Rights of Women for nine years. Hogshead is a frequent keynote speaker and regularly contributes to shaping sports policy for girls and women. Nancy Hogshead won three Gold medals and one Silver medal at the 1984 Olympics. She has been inducted into 13 halls of fame, including the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the Women’s Sports Hall of Fame. Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal listed Hogshead as a “Power Player.” Sports Illustrated Magazine listed her as “one of the most influential people in the history of Title IX."