Warren Binford, JD, EDM

Warren Binford serves as Chief Legal Officer of CHILD USA, where she leads the organization’s legal and policy work and helps expand its international impact. An internationally recognized children’s rights scholar and advocate, Warren has over 25 years of experience advocating for survivors of child sex abuse and exploitation, and has published over 110 works focused on the challenges facing children in the 21^st century, such as technology-facilitated child sex abuse and cross-border justice and accountability.

Warren holds the W.H. Lea Endowed Chair for Justice in Pediatric Law, Policy, and Ethics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she is a tenured Professor of Pediatrics. She also serves as Professor of Law by courtesy at the University of Colorado Law School. Her work bridges law, medicine, and social science to advance the rights of children and meaningful access to justice.

Warren earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston University, and is a certified pediatric bioethicist through the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine and Children’s Mercy Hospital. She is committed to ensuring that children’s voices and experiences, as well as research and evidence, inform the laws and policies that shape the lives of children and survivors.