Janell Mayo Duncan
Co-Founder and Vice President

Janell Mayo Duncan has over twenty-five years of experience as a corporate regulatory attorney, government lawyer and consumer advocate. Ms. Duncan specializes in representing non-profit organizations in the areas of health, civil justice, and consumer protection.

Ms. Duncan is the President and Founder of Living Well Black, Inc. (LWB), a non-profit organization created to educate, empower, and advocate in an effort to improve health and financial wellbeing in the African American community. Through LWB, she has worked on several national policy issues to address racial, economic and health disparities and raise public awareness, including climate change and prescription drug safety.

During the Obama Administration, Ms. Duncan served as Senior Counsel to the Chairman of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) where she provided high level legal and strategic advice to the Chairman.

Before joining the CPSC, Ms. Duncan served as Senior Counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Consumers Union (CU), the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.  For nearly a decade, she worked with federal regulatory agencies, Congress, and the media to create policies beneficial to consumers. She focused on product safety, toy safety, dietary supplements, pharmaceutical safety and affordability, drug industry marketing practices, and managed care reform. Ms. Duncan provided additional expertise to regulators and Congress in the area of banking and financial service reform.

Before CU, Ms. Duncan worked to preserve the integrity of the nation’s food and drug supply as an Assistant Chief Counsel for Enforcement in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of the Chief Counsel. She also handled litigation and regulatory matters at two major Washington, D.C. law firms, Foley & Lardner and Arent Fox.

Ms. Duncan grew up in Bethesda, Maryland where she attended the Holton-Arms School. She holds degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard Law School.

Ms. Duncan is active in the Greater Washington, D.C. community serving as a mentor for young women of color through Generation Hope and as a member of the Potomac Valley Chapter of Jack and Jill of America. She lives in Potomac, Maryland with her spouse Larry and two children.