Cristina Page

Cristina Page is a prominent reproductive rights activist. Her book, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex was the first to expose the right to life movement’s campaigns against contraception, that “pro-life” strategies are leading to more and later abortions, and how the pro-choice movement’s efforts have decreased poverty, created happier, healthier families, and revolutionized the workforce.

Currently a consultant to The Institute for Reproductive Health Access, she is also one of the few working to reverse the nation’s severe abortion provider shortage, a threat to reproductive rights as imminent and dangerous as the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Her policy proposals have been adopted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New Jersey State legislature.

Before focusing on reproductive rights, Page worked in the editorial departments of Glamour and Ms. magazines, as an assistant to Gloria Steinem, as executive director of the National Organization for Women’s New York City Chapter, ran a campaign for a woman candidate for Governor of New York, and edited The Smart Girl's Guide to College, the first in what now is a genre of Smart Girl guides.

She often speaks on the issue of women’s rights and the culture wars throughout the country and via numerous media outlets (conservative, mainstream and liberal alike) including the New York Times, FOX News, Air America, The Guardian, and the BBC to offer perspective on the culture wars. Page often debates opponents of reproductive rights and is comfortable under the most intense grilling. The New York Sun declared that “Ms. Page is the Ann Coulter of the pro-choice movement.”

Page graduated from Goucher College, in Maryland, in 1993. She is married with a son and lives in New York City. Follow Page on Twitter @CristinaPage.