Our People » Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, a writer, lawyer, teacher, and child advocate. Currently, she is a member and past the president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, and has just completed a memoir, Bending Toward the Sun, published by Harper Collins.
Gilbert-Lurie also 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.
Previously, Leslie spent close to a decade as an executive at NBC, where, at various times, she oversaw NBC Productions, Comedy, wrote television episodes, and co-founded a new NBC in-house production company, Lurie-Horwits productions. As a lawyer, Leslie worked briefly at the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg and Tunney and served as a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Law Clerk. She is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA School of Law.
Leslie lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son and daughter.