Renee Bracey Sherman is an award-winning reproductive justice activist and the author of Saying Abortion Aloud: Research and Recommendations for Public Abortion Storytellers and Organizations. She is an activist with extensive advocacy, messaging, and digital media experience consulting with organizations in the the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements, including Forward Together and Strong Families, the Sea Change Program, Reproductive Health Technologies Project, and the Bay Area Doula Project. Media includes: The Guardian, Ebony, TIME, Salon, The Atlantic, BBC.

Robin Marty is the Communications Director for the West Alabama Women's Center and a freelance reporter and the author of the book Handbook for a Post-Roe America, a guide for what to do if and when Roe is overturned and states make abortion illegal. She is also the co-author of The End of Roe v. Wade (formerly "Crow After Roe"), an updated account of 12 different abortion laws meant to provoke challenges to Roe v. Wade, published in August of 2019. Media includes: The Washington Post, Alabama Public Radio, NBC News, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, Politico.

Lily Melody Bolourian is Executive Director of Pro-Choice Maryland. She is an Iranian-American writer and organizer with 15 years of experience as an organizer around reproductive justice, immigration, police violence, imperialism, and climate issues. She has worked in direct abortion care throughout pregnancy, run political campaigns, and is an expert on Middle Eastern feminism and reproductive justice, abortion rights throughout pregnancy, and state violence. Media includes: Mic News, Wear Your Voice.

In her role as Director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, Jennifer Dalven oversees and directs the ACLU’s litigation, state advocacy, and communications work on issues affecting access to reproductive health services. That work runs the gamut from legal challenges to laws that would ban abortions and shut down women’s health centers to initiatives to stop state legislatures from passing further restrictions on access to reproductive health care to communications strategies to move public opinion and galvanize supporters. Media includes: Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, Reuters, The New York Times, CNN, NBC.

Amelia Bonow is the Founding Director of #ShoutYourAbortion, a movement dedicated to broadening the existing cultural discourse around abortion. Bonow put her graduate program on hold and began developing SYA into a nationwide movement geared towards creating places for women to discuss their abortions, online, in art and media, and in real life events all over the country. In 2015, Bonow’s abortion disclosure inspired a viral outpouring of abortion stories on social media, receiving front page coverage from The New York Times, LA Times, as well as The New Yorker, ABC’s Nightline, BBC, Al Jazeera, and CNN.

Shireen Rose Shakouri is deputy director of Reproaction. She is trained as an abortion doula and serves as a clinic escort at a D.C. clinic. She is Iranian and Italian-American, and has a fire in her belly for reproductive justice work largely driven by a commitment to affirming the leadership of Earth-colored people, with direct action and direct service as her favored tools. This drive led her to building hard-hitting campaigns and managing special research projects at Reproaction before she was promoted to leadership in early 2021. Media includes: HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Bitch Media.

Alexa Garcia-Ditta is a reproductive health, rights and justice communications, policy and media professional dedicated to expanding access to reproductive health services, including abortion, for all Texans. She has five years of experience reporting on reproductive rights and health policy in Texas; has extensive strategic communications and messaging experience; has five years of expertise in the state legislative process. Media includes: Rewire, TribTalk, Texas Observer.

Jennefer Russo, MD, MPH is an obstetrician-gynecologist who is a national expert on contraception and abortion. She serves as a Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Russo has published research on harassment of abortion providers, physicians' use of guidelines, ectopic pregnancy, and other family planning subjects. She has served as an author for several textbooks on family planning. Media includes: Los Angeles Times, Salon, Ms. Magazine.

Carole Joffe, Ph.D., is a professor in the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (Ansirh) program in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Professor Joffe is an expert on abortion provision, history of abortion and contraception, contemporary abortion rights and the anti-abortion movements. Her most recent book, co-authored with David Cohen, is Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America. Among her other books are Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings (co-authored with Jennifer Reich, 2015); Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade(1996); Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us (2010); and The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (1986). Media includes: The New York TImes, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, New Republic, NPR.

Sunny Chapman had an (illegal) Jane abortion in Chicago in 1969. Her experience led her to years of abortion rights activism with groups like Planned Parenthood and independent clinics. She has produced two films about crisis pregnancy centers: Misguidance, and In Bad Faith, both distributed by The Cinema Guild. Media includes: The New York Times, ABC News.

Tracy Weitz PhD, MPA, has a life-long career involvement in women’s reproductive health. She is presently a Visiting Scholar at UCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) and an independent consultant with Plumbline Coaching & Consulting. During her prior time at UCSF, Dr. Weitz, co-founded and directed ANSIRH from 2003-2013 following her position as the founding Executive Director for the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health (CoE) in 1996. Based on her research at ANSIRH, in 2013 the California legislature passed AB154 which permitted nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to perform aspiration abortions in California. Five additional states have since implemented the same policy change. Media includes: Rachel Maddow Show, The New York Times, RH Reality Check, The Cut, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Rewire News.

Laura Jiménez became the Executive Director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice in September 2011. She has over 20 years of experience working with women of color organizations across the country on issues of reproductive justice, including the National Latina Health Organization (Oakland), the Dominican Women’s Development Center (New York) and being part of the founding of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (Atlanta). Media includes: Univision, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post.

Lisa Maldonado is one of the founders of the Reproductive Health Access Project and has served as the organization’s Executive Director since 2005. She has devoted her career to working on reproductive health issues, especially as they affect women, adolescents and immigrants. She is on the board of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals and is active within the American Public Health Association–having served as co-chair of the Association’s Abortion Task Force, President of its Latino Caucus and as a Governing Councilor for the Population, Sexual and Reproductive Health section. Extensive media experience.

Kelly Baden brings nearly two decades of experience in the nonprofit and advocacy sector, to her work building power with progressive state legislators. Since she joined SiX in 2017, Kelly launched the country’s only cross-state cohort of state legislators committed to reproductive freedom with more than 400 state legislators from around the country, built a team of five, and piloted game-changing programs like convening a delegation of state legislators to visit El Salvador to understand the devastating impact of abortion bans. Before SiX, Kelly led the state advocacy and policy portfolio at the Center for Reproductive Rights and has also worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health, Physicians for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey, and EMILY’s List. Media includes: TIME, Bloomberg, Ms. Magazine, Self Magazine, MSNBC.

Julie A. Jenkins, BSN, RN, MSN, SAFE-A, WHNP-BC, is a sexual and reproductive health nurse practitioner and, previously, the lead plaintiff in ACLU litigation challenging Maine’s physician-only abortion law, as well as a declarant in Maine Family Planning’s litigation through the Center for Reproductive Rights to defend Title X. She is the Reproductive Health Access Project's Advance Practice Clinicians cluster leader and is completing her doctorate at John Hopkins University School of Nursing. Media includes: Associated Press, Boston Globe, Mother Jones, Al Jazeera, HuffPost, CBC.

Yvonne Gutierrez is Managing Director at Latino Victory Project. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes (PPTV), the statewide electoral and advocacy organization working to engage and organize Texans throughout the state, committed to supporting candidates who are willing to fight and protect women's access to health care. She had worked in the Planned Parenthood family for 14 years and possesses a strong knowledge of public affairs, advocacy, government relations and legislative issues, as well as campaign management. Media includes: Spectrum News, Chron.

Science journalist and Columbia University professor, Claudia Dreifus, writes for the New York Review of Books, Quanta, CNN and the New York Times. She wrote an oped for CNN titled “I almost died trying to get an abortion. I'm terrified my students could face a similar fate.” From 1999 through 2020, she was the interviewer of the Tuesday science section of the New York Times, producing biographical interviews with leading researchers including Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth Blackburn, James Allison, Jane Goodall and Jennifer Doudnal. When the scientific honor society, Sigma Xi, awarded her an honorary membership, their leadership described her as “a pioneering and original force in making science accessible."

Charon Asetoyer (Comanche), a Native American women's health activist. She is the CEO and Founder of the Native American Community Board (1985) and the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (1988) on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The Resource Center addresses issues of reproductive justice, violence against women, and environmental justice. Media includes: The New York Times, Jezebel, ColorLines, CNN, NPR.

Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale is an Episcopal priest and the former President & CEO of the National Abortion Federation (NAF). She served for 17 years (9 of them as chair) on the national board of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. As Chair, she led the Coalition through a change of its name, mission, and organizational structure. During that time the Coalition’s budget, staff, and office space more than doubled in size. She has also served on the national boards of NARAL Pro-Choice America and The White House Project. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, PBS, BBC. NPR.

Dr. Jody Steinauer is director of the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, a cutting edge research center that advances reproductive health policy and practice worldwide through research, training and advocacy. To help improve clinical care, Dr. Steinauer launched Innovating Education in Reproductive Health (IERH) in 2012. IERH creates free curricula and learning tools, including a pioneering video-based online abortion course that has been watched by over 10,000 viewers from more than 150 countries. Media includes: The New York Times, CNN, San Jose Murcury News.

Stephanie Loraine Pineiro is an award winning reproductive justice advocate, abortion storyteller, clinical social worker, columnist, radio producer, and host, born in Puerto Rico, now residing in Central Florida. She is the Co-Executive Director of Florida Access Network (formerly Central Florida Women’s Emergency Fund), an abortion fund dedicated to providing financial support and advocacy to Floridians seeking abortion care. Stephanie has been a part of the FAN family since 2015 going from Volunteer to Board President until becoming one of FAN’s first staff members in 2020. Media includes: Rewire, Univision, Teen Vogue, NPR.

Sophia Yen MD MPH is an adolescent medicine specialist and reproductive rights advocate. She is an Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. Her research interests are: Emergency Contraception knowledge, use and practice of patients and physicians, reproductive health needs of adolescents and college students, accuracy of reproductive health websites. Dr. Yen's goal in life is to prevent all teen pregnancy - "No teenager should want to get pregnant. She should have higher aspirations for her teen years. and No teenager should get pregnant. If they have sex, they should have access and education to birth control." Media includes: San Jose Mercury News, Good Housekeeping, Ms. Magazine, Oprah Radio.

Jen Ferris is the Director of Reproductive Advocacy at Progress North Carolina. A third-generation feminist activist, Jen has been working to advance reproductive rights and access for more than a decade. She has worked on the front lines as the volunteer coordinator for her state abortion fund but now helps shape-- and advocate for-- abortion policy in North Carolina. In addition to her work at Progress, she is the Communications Director for NC Women United and the President of the Chapel Hill Community Home Trust Board of Directors. Media includes: The News & Observer, Daily Tarheel, WFMY News, ABC.

For 13 years, Jessica González-Rojas served in leadership at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, the only national reproductive justice organization that is dedicated to building Latina power to advance health, dignity, and justice for 29 million Latinas, their families, and communities in the United States. She has been a leader in progressive movements for over two decades. She has been a leader in progressive movements for over two decades and in 2020 was elected to the New York State Assembly representing the 34th Assembly District, which includes the diverse Queens communities of Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, Woodside and Corona. Media includes: The New York Times, Huffington Post, The Nation, PBS.

The Reverend Debra W. Haffner was the director of the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing from 2001-2016. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, and an endorsed community minister with the Unitarian Church in Westport, CT. Rev. Haffner was the chief executive officer of SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, from 1988 through May 2000. During Rev. Haffner’s tenure at SIECUS, she created the Religious Declaration on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing; the National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education; the Commission on Adolescent Sexual Health; and the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Kindergarten – Grade Twelve. Media includes: The New York Times, NPR, Fox News.

Leslie M. Kantor, PhD, MPH is a widely recognized public health leader, researcher, educator and advocate. She currently serves as the inaugural Chair of the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Dr. Kantor was formerly the Vice President of Education at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and a member of the faculty at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She has served on the boards of a number of national organizations including ETR Associates, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Power to Decide (formerly the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy), and Answer. Media includes: The New York Times, USA Today, TIME, ABC, CBS, NY1, NBC.

Neta Meltzer is the Director of Strategic Communications for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. Throughout her career, Neta has focused on gender-based issues including reproductive health and rights and sexual violence prevention and response. Meltzer is also a regional board member with the Anti-Defamation League's Mountain States chapter and has contributed to local publications and was a speaker at the 2019 Denver Womxn's March on issues of anti-Semitism. Media includes: The Denver Post, The New Mexico Political Report, The Gallup Sun, The Colorado Sun.

Christian F. Nunes is President of the National Organization for Women (NOW). As the second African American president in the organization’s history, the youngest person of color and the youngest president in more than 40 years, Nunes is leading the organization through an intersectional lens, bringing a diverse coalition of grassroots activists to work against structural sexism and racism. Since assuming a leadership role at NOW, Christian has launched key initiatives such as the Unlock the Future campaign, which demands humane treatment for detained immigrant families, in particular women and girls seeking refuge from sexual violence, assault and poverty. Media includes: Politico, The Huffington Post, Ebony, Black Enterprise magazine, Yahoo News, MSNBC.

Quita Tinsley is a fat, Black, queer femme that writes, organizes, and overall works to build sustainable change in their home, the South. They served as the Deputy Director of Access Reproductive Care - Southeast, where they focused on strengthening ARC-Southeast's operations, programs, and organizational voice. They are also an alum of Echoing Ida, a Black women and nonbinary folks' writing collective of Forward Together. Their writing and thoughts have been featured in The Body Is Not An Apology, Feministing, Scalawag, USA Today, Ebony.com, and the Cornell Policy Review.

Deana Rohlinger is a Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. She does research on mass media, political participation, and politics. She is the author of Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and dozens of scholarly and book publications that look at everything from the kinds of emails individuals sent Jeb Bush about the Terri Schiavo case to the Tea Party Movement. Media includes: USA Today, Associated Press, US News & World Report, NPR.

Jessica Arons is the ACLU’s Senior Advocacy & Policy Counsel for Reproductive Freedom. In this role, she supports ACLU affiliates with policy needs; coordinates strategic initiatives; and works to leverage and integrate advocacy, litigation, and organizing strategies regarding reproductive health, rights, and justice. Most recently, she served as president & CEO of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and director of the Women’s Health & Rights program at the Center for American Progress. Media includes: The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, Politico, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, MSNBC, NPR.

Karen Middleton is a recognized leader and speaker with expertise women’s issues, candidates and electing women, reproductive rights, political strategy and Colorado politics. Middleton serves as the President of Cobalt (formerly NARAL CO), working to advance abortion access and reproductive rights. Cobalt is a statewide member-driven political organization and a key partner in the reproductive rights movement in Colorado. Media includes: Rewire, Huffpost, The Denver Post, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times.