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Kathryn Robb
Executive Director, CHILD USAdvocacy
Kathryn Robb is executive director of CHILD USAdvocacy, an organization dedicated to ending child abuse and neglect through better laws for child protection. A lawyer by trade, she specializes in legislative advocacy, sexual abuse laws, and statute of limitations reform; she is also a survivor of child sexual abuse. Robb most recently worked with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislators to pass the 2019 Child Victims Act. As a board member and legislative advocate for the nonprofit Massachusetts Citizens for Children, she was instrumental in changing the state’s statute of limitation laws in 2014. Robb is a certified trainer for the MassKids Enough Abuse campaign.
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Every few months, it seems, we see more startling evidence — from the Catholic Church, to USA Gymnastics, to the Boy Scouts — of just how rampant sexual abuse of children is i...