This SFP Changemaker Award supports the development of Lasha Clarke, PhD, MPH as a leading scholar in justice-centered family planning research. Dr. Clarke is a reproductive health equity researcher committed to reimagining how the field understands, studies, and supports people’s full reproductive lives. Her work is grounded in a reproductive life course framework that bridges abortion, contraception, pregnancy, and infertility experiences—domains which are often siloed in research, care, and policy. She brings interdisciplinary training in social epidemiology, qualitative methods, and authentic community engagement. Dr. Clarke’s research program advances three broad goals: (1) to document how people navigate reproductive care over time, particularly the cumulative and structural factors that shape experiences with contraception, abortion, fertility, and reproductive health conditions; (2) to design person-centered care models that align contraceptive counseling with evolving family-building goals, especially for historically marginalized populations; and (3) to transform how equity is measured in reproductive health by developing tools that identify bias and promote accountability within healthcare systems. Dr. Clarke envisions a future in which family planning research centers the complexity of lived experience, drives systems-level change, and advances equity across the entire reproductive life course She also envisions that her leadership in family planning will elevate diverse, transdisciplinary and community-driven perspectives. To support this trajectory, Dr. Clarke’s training goals are to gain didactic and applied skill development in advanced analytic methods and systems-level change, and to enhance her subject matter expertise in abortion and contraception.