Leah leads our amazing team of passionate, compassionate, and professional staff at the National Safe Haven Alliance (NSHA). She has led the Safe Haven program in Virginia, Baby Safe Haven of Virginia (NSHA affiliate). She has been involved in national and international Safe Haven work for the past few years, developing partnerships, leading Safe Haven training, legislative initiatives, and the NSHA's volunteer and state representative program, as well as outreach to state agencies and community resource centers. Leah's passion is advocating for vulnerable children and their parents through establishing holistic, Safe Haven policy, best practice procedures, and programs that provide direct support to parents in need. 

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Leah lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, John, their three children, and a menagerie of pets. She serves on her state board for domestic and sexual violence prevention and the maternal health data task force. She lived in Luzon, Philippines, and has been involved in disaster relief/mission work in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. She received her B.S. in Psychology, and Graduate Business Certification. Leah previously served as an Event Planner with the International Mission Board, Director of Communications for a pregnancy support center, and a volunteer, State Representative for NSHA. She has 20+ years of experience in non-profit work and speaks nationally and internationally, advocating for Safe Haven laws and support resources for vulnerable children and families. 

Maura McGlynn is a licensed pediatric occupational therapist and a clinical child psychologist. Dr. McGlynn has specialized training and experience with infant and perinatal mental health, including focusing on parent-child relationships beginning in pregnancy up through the age of five-years-old. Dr. McGlynn's experiences with medically-based perinatal mental health (labor and delivery, NICU, and postpartum units) has yielded opportunities to support families in high adversity contexts, including correctional medical environments, prenatal substance exposure/neonatal abstinence syndrome treatment, child services and foster placement, high-conflict family environments, and parental behavioral health challenges. These experiences built a passion and a knowledge-base to support safe infant surrender and holistic family care.  

Leticia Sanchez is a recent college graduate who earned a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Social Work at Montclair State University. At Montclair State, she has worked under the supervision of Dr. Emily Douglas where she learned about Safe Haven laws and helped conduct research on them, as well. She helped create a study on the education, knowledge, and attitudes of Montclair State students on Safe Haven laws and presented the results at the Montclair State Student Research Symposium in April 2024. She oversees and manages the social media, works on graphics for events, helps create the Monthly newsletter, and works on Fundraising opportunities for NSHA.