Roslyn Solomon

As co-founder of the Human Rights Implementation Project, Ms. Solomon consults with Seattle and King County on developing the health care reform advocacy plan; serves on the Planning Subcommittee of the Healthy Washington Coalition and participates in development of the Coalition’s state legislative agenda consulting with the Human Right to Health Program Director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and National Health Law Program.

Principal of IA Consulting, Ms. Solomon is a legal and public policy consultant, facilitator, writer, and speaker. Passionate about promoting equity and social justice, she has been instrumental in implementing comprehensive equitable reform measures through her advocacy and communications work.

Ms. Solomon was previously the Director of the U.S. program at Uplift International, a Seattle-based health and human rights organization. She has also served as a consultant for Health Alliance International and the Grameen Technical Center

Prior to her work as a consultant, Ms. Solomon maintained a private law practice in Seattle. She then served as an administrative law judge for the State of Washington and was an adjunct professor at the Seattle University School of Law, where she taught trial advocacy. Ms. Solomon continues to present to bar association committees, as well as teach legal strategy in her role as instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Ms. Solomon is an active community volunteer, a member of the Health Care Reform Realization Committee for the State of Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner; serves as Chair of the Seattle Human Rights Commission; a member of the Board of the Center for Woman & Democracy; a member of the Advisory Board of Youth Ambassadors, a founder and board member of the Jewish Women’s Funding Network, a member of the Healthy Washington Coalition and the Women’s Funding Alliance. Ms. Solomon works on local political campaigns and is a member of the 37th District Democrats.

M. Solomon is a member of the American Bar Association, The Washington Bar Association, and the Seattle-King County Bar Association.