Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, a writer, lawyer, teacher, and child advocate, is a board member and Immediate Past President of the Los Angeles County Board of Education.

She is a founding member and past president of the Alliance for Children's Rights, a non-profit legal rights organization for indigent children, co-chair of the education committee for the Los Angeles Music Center, and a board member of Sierra Canyon School and New Visions Foundation.

She recently served on the mayor's task force charged with developing a new cultural plan for the City of Los Angeles.

Gilbert-Lurie, with her mother Rita Lurie, is the co-author of the mother/daughter memoir Bending Toward the Sun (Harper).

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