Fredie Kay

13-fredie-kayFredie Kay is an attorney and women’s rights and political advocate. She is President of the Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts. This past year, she served on the Massachusetts Equal Pay Coalition, participating in its successful effort to enact the Equal Pay Act, signed into law this past July. She also serves in leadership positions for a number of organizations: Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Relations Council, for which she co-chaired the 2016 annual State House event; the Advisory Council of Emerge Massachusetts; the Advisory Board of the Community Dispute Settlement Center; and Board of Directors of Temple Aliyah, where she served as President from 2011-2013.

Fredie began her legal career at Goodwin Procter LLP, and then served as Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor Dukakis and then Governor Weld. Fredie was appointed Director of the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution, where she served from 1993-2000.

Fredie earned her J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center; M.P.A. at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and B.A. in Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

She is passionate about preserving the legacy of the Suffragists, and particularly about using their fight for the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, as a catalyst for education and civic engagement. Toward that end, she is a Task Force member of the national 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative and is founder and President of the Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts.

For her access to justice fellowship project, Fredie will work on filing appropriate documents to make the WSCC, currently under the fiscal sponsorship of the Women’s Bar Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization. She will focus on issues of governance, creating policies and procedures that enable the Coalition to achieve its goals, both programmatic and financial, to commemorate the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage.