Dr. Noa Balf is currently a legislative affairs fellow at the National Council of Jewish Women. Previously she was an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland College Park in the Department of Government and Politics. Her research examines the role of seniority and authority in the legislature on gender-related policy outcomes in Israel and Argentina. She has published work on gender, security and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has contributed policy pieces on gender in Israeli political parties and state institutions for the Woodrow Wilson Center.