Advisory Committee

Naomi R. Cahn – Family Law & Reproductive Technology Law Advisor

Naomi Cahn is the Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law, Nancy L. Buc ’69 Research Professor in Democracy and Equity, and Co-Director, Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law.* She has written extensively about reproductive technology, including third party reproduction. Prior to joining the University of Virginia faculty in 2020, she taught at George Washington Law School, where she twice served as associate dean.

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Eloise Drane – Egg-Donation Agencies Advisor

Eloise Drane is a six-time egg donor and a three-time gestational surrogate. She founded Family Inceptions, a family building agency specializing in surrogacy and egg donation in 2008. Her passion is to change the narrative of the industry by bringing compassion, intentionality, and empowerment to the process of building a family.

Erin Jackson – President Emeritus

Erin founded USDCC and served as its first president and CEO. She stepped down after 2022 to focus on her other interests and endeavors, including We Are Donor Conceived, which she established in 2016. She continues to lend her expertise to USDCC in the areas of nonprofit management and communications. She also serves on USDCC’s board of directors.

Lindsay Harris, LCSW – Mental Health Advisor

Lindsay is a licensed clinical social worker, late-discovery donor conceived person, and also a recipient parent of donor sperm that she and her wife used to conceive their two sons. She served as USDCC’s first vice president of mental health initiatives from 2022 through 2023 and is still a member of its board of directors. Lindsay works in private practice, providing therapy in the Atlanta area. She has often worked with individuals and couples going through fertility treatments.

Carole LieberWilkins, MA, MFT – Mental Health Advisor

Carole is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice and author of Let’s Talk About Egg Donation:  Real stories from real people. Her experience creating a family through adoption and egg donation deepens her understanding of the challenges others face when exploring these complex family building options. Because the focus of her work has always been to help people build healthy families, she is also an advocate for donor conceived people.

Sonia Suter – Reproductive Technology Law Advisor

Sonia is the Kahan Family Research Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Health Law Initiative at The George Washington University Law School.* She has widely published in the areas of reproductive rights, emerging reproductive technologies, and ethical and legal issues in genetics. Sonia co-authored Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy and Reproductive Technologies and the Law, and holds an MS and PhD candidacy in human genetics and a JD from the University of Michigan. 

*Employer listed for purposes of identification only.