Abigail English, JD, is a lawyer, researcher, and advocate for the rights of vulnerable young people. She provides consultation services to nonprofit organizations and public agencies on legal and policy issues in adolescent and young adult health. Her research and advocacy have focused on consent and confidentiality protections, sexual and reproductive health care, human trafficking, health insurance, and public financing of care. In 1999 she founded the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to promote the health of adolescents and young adults and their access to comprehensive health care. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill. She was the 2010-2011 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conducting research on sexual exploitation and trafficking of adolescents and young adults. From 2012-2013 she served on the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council Committee on Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States.

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