Richard Wexler is Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. Wexler's interest in the child welfare system grew out of 19 years of work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television. During that time, he won more than two dozen awards, many of them for stories about child abuse and foster care. He is the author of Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse (Prometheus Books: 1990, 1995). Wexler has testified before Congress and State Legislatures and advised the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families in its 1995 rewrite of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

Wexler's writing about the child welfare system has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, and he has been interviewed by 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, CBS This Morning, Today, CBS News Nightwatch, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times the Associated Press, USA Today and other media.

Wexler is a graduate of Richmond College of the City University of New York and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded the school's highest honor, a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University — Beaver Campus.