Sara is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA and a Trainee at the California Center for Population Research, and completed her MPP in social policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Her dissertation uses mixed methods to investigate the policy, behavioral, and interactional mechanisms driving racial and socioeconomic ...Read more >

Laura is a third-year resident in Child Neurology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh aiming to become a clinician-investigator focused on improving sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young adults with neurologic conditions. Laura has a longstanding interest in family planning, including professional and volunteer commitments with the National Abortion Federation (NAF) Hotline ...Read more >

To help establish sexual and reproductive health (SRH) equity through early, consistent, and comprehensive sex education across all communities in the United States (US) is the long-term goal Priscilla has been working towards with each educational and professional experience. Sex education has typically rarely covered topics like LGBTQ healthcare, abortion, provider bias, among others. As ...Read more >

Jane Seymour is a doctoral student in epidemiology at Boston University and holds a Master in Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania. Jane currently works as a Senior Project Manager at Ibis Reproductive Health where she manages and leads qualitative and quantitative research to assess access to abortion and contraception in the United States ...Read more >

Gabrielle deFiebre is a PhD student in Community Health and Health Policy at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She previously earned an MPH degree in Community Health Education from Hunter College and a BA from New College of Florida. Gabrielle currently works as the Associate Director of Research and Education ...Read more >

Dr. Keemi Ereme is a second year OB/GYN resident at University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her medical degree at Howard University College of Medicine in 2019. She has also completed a Master of Public Health degree in Global Health Communication at The George Washington University. Dr. Ereme plans to pursue fellowship in complex ...Read more >

This proposed study is part of the applicant’s doctoral dissertation. Prior to entering the United States, she worked as a physician in Iran, where she began engaging with women’s family planning challenges. After moving to the US, she worked on health outcomes of refugees and conducted workshops on pre-post-natal care and family planning, for pregnant ...Read more >

Ariana Bennett is currently a doctor of public health student at the University of California, Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality. Before returning to school, she worked for eight years with the Fellowship in Family Planning in Family Medicine alongside family physicians integrating abortion and contraception into primary care. In her ...Read more >

Aalap Bommaraju (they/them) explores how people transform reproductive care through everyday cultural and political practices. They are a sociologist with specialization in the sociology of medicine, reproduction, social movements, and race. One of their primary research projects explores outcomes after a 2017 state-level victory in Illinois that regained abortion coverage for Medicaid recipients. Through grounded ...Read more >

Amy Elizabeth Alterman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Culture and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research employs performance as an analytic framework in order to explore the sociocultural and experiential elements of reproductive and sexual health access. Simultaneously, her work investigates the potential of the performing arts to advance health equity. ...Read more >