For Immediate Release: Monday, March 7, 2016
Contact: Donna De La Cruz, [email protected] (202) 339-9331                       

Goldman Has Spent Career Addressing Problems of Inequality

(WASHINGTON)—Janlori Goldman, who has spent her career addressing the problems of inequality in our society, has been named the new Director of Institutional Advancement and Senior Strategic Advisor at the Center for Community Change (CCC).

“Janlori is a highly accomplished, visionary leader whose work at the Health Privacy Project, an organization she founded and ran, resulted in the passage of major federal regulations on medical privacy,” said CCC’s Executive Director Deepak Bhargava. “At CCC, Janlori’s strategic vision and experience in addressing core problems of structural inequality will be key to the organization’s goal of giving low-income communities, especially those of color, a voice so they can change their lives and public policies for the better.”

“I can think of no organization better positioned than Community Change to empower people to repudiate structural inequality, and insist on policies that result in a more humane and just society,” Goldman said. “At a time when stark inequalities are often met with heartless—if not bigoted—political rhetoric, I truly appreciate this opportunity to strengthen and advance CCC’s mission and that of its partners and allies.”

After starting her career as a civil rights and social justice lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, Goldman founded the Health Privacy Project in 1997 and led the effort in support of protecting the confidentiality of medical records. In a 2003 Washington Post profile, Goldman was lauded as a force in getting the federal government to issue rules preventing health care workers from sharing confidential information that could be misused by others.