Natalie Stokes is a cardiovascular disease fellow planning to specialize in women’s cardiovascular health, and specifically cardio-obstetrics. As such, she is particularly passionate about addressing the high rates of maternal cardiovascular morbidity and mortality through early, effective family planning care, including assessment of reproductive goals, and education and access to safe contraception and abortion. Prior ...Read more >

As a public health doctorate student at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Kristen Surles is pursuing her goal of improving equitable access to care for teens to improve their overall well-being. Before returning to school, she worked as a counselor in underserved middle and high schools. It was here that her drive to improve access ...Read more >

Ortal is a PhD Candidate at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University and holds an MSW from the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Through both practice and research, she is committed to promoting reproductive justice and equitable access to family planning ...Read more >

Connie Lu is a current resident OBGYN physician at Northwestern Memorial Hopsital and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago, Illinois. She started her education at Indiana University, where she obtained a dual degree in both Neuroscience and Gender Studies. There, she completed an honors thesis in Gender Studies titled, “Faking it: ...Read more >

Laurenia Mangum is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh. Family planning is an effective way of preventing unplanned pregnancies among birthing people, while providing autonomy and freedom of choice of how to grow one’s family and options for contraception use or terminating unplanned pregnancies. There is a ...Read more >

Maya Manian is a PhD student at the University of California San Francisco where she is pursuing a degree in Sociology. Prior to joining UCSF, she received a JD from Harvard Law School. She has been a Visiting Professor at American University Washington College of Law, Howard University School of Law, and University of California ...Read more >

Dr. Rachel Shin is a rising third-year resident at Cleveland Clinic’s Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency Program. She completed her MD at Virginia Commonwealth University, and first became interested in public health as a Duke Global Health Fellow in Geneva. Dr. Shin completed a Master of Public Health Degree at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ...Read more >

Izidora (Izzie) Skračić is a PhD candidate in Maternal and Child Health, whose research focuses on reproductive health. As a member of the evaluation team of Delaware Contraceptive Access Now, her dissertation explores various facets of access to contraception. Additionally, Izidora teaches a 300-level course, “Unequal Families: Health, Wealth, Race, and Place in the U.S.,” ...Read more >

Angubeen Khan is a PhD student at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health studying Community Health Sciences and student affiliate with the California Center for Population Research. Angubeen’s research focuses on sexual and reproductive health of immigrant and migration-affected populations. Angubeen was the doctoral fellow for the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive ...Read more >

Rose is a National Library of Medicine Predoctoral Fellow and PhD candidate in Biomedical Informatics, focusing on Health & Clinical Informatics at Oregon Health & Science University, with an MS in Biostatistics from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her current dissertation work combines her interests in women’s health, consumer and health ...Read more >