Charlotte Lanvers joined DREDF's legal team as a staff attorney in September 2007. Ms. Lanvers earned an A.B. degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 2004. In 2003, while a student at Princeton she was awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship in recognition of her leadership potential and commitment to public service. She earned a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2007, where she interned at Cornell Legal Aid focusing on public benefits hearings and appeals. At Cornell, she researched for the Employment and Disability Institute at the Industrial School of Labor Relations studying ADEA and ADA employment discrimination cases and EEOC charge data. At Cornell she was a recipient of the Freeman Award for Human-Civil Rights and the Morris P. Glushien Prize for the best student note focusing on a social problem: "Different District Court, Different Disposition: An Empirical Assessment of ADA, Title VII Race and Sex, and ADEA Employment Discrimination Dispositions in Federal District Court," in 16:2 of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.

Ms. Lanvers was previously a legal intern at DREDF in 2005. She is a 2007 Skadden Fellow and is working to ensure that children with diabetes receive the accommodations they are entitled to under law in public schools and childcare settings.