Vivien Labaton was the founding Director of the Third Wave Foundation.
She is curently a Fellow at Atlantic Philanthropies. Prior to her work at Atlantic, she was a Blackmun Fellow and then a Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights. A graduate of Barnard College, Vivien earned her J.D. at NYU Law School. She is the co-editor, with Dawn Lundy Martin (a Third Wave co-founder), of The Fire This Time, a collection of essays by young activists on the future of feminism.
Sistas on the Rise and Casa Atabex Aché were highlighted in the New York Times for leveraging new grant dollars to strengthen their Bronx communities.
In December 2006, Third Wave celebrated 10 years of activism and philanthropy led by young women and trans youth. Learn more about the event… 