Cynthia Beavin (she/they) is a Sociology PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. She previously worked for over four years at the Guttmacher Institute, contributing to projects related to abortion and unintended pregnancy incidence globally, barriers to sexual and reproductive health care in Iowa and Arizona, and trends in adolescent sexual behavior. With interests in ...Read more >

Stephanie Arteaga is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her MPH degree in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health at the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. Since 2013, Ms. Arteaga has worked on research focusing on reproductive and maternal health equity. Currently, she is a Project ...Read more >

I am an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) at Virginia Tech. I earned my PhD in HDFS at Penn State, conducting research on sexual relationships and health in adolescence and emerging adulthood. My training emphasized how human development is shaped by relationships, communities, and social structures. I have also completed postdoctoral ...Read more >

Dr. Josephine Urbina is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Complex Family Planning specialist and healthy equity advocate dedicated to improving the sexual and reproductive health outcomes of historically marginalized communities. Rooted in her identity as a native Spanish-speaker and daughter of Mexican immigrants, her Latinidad fuels a deep commitment to advocacy through research and education. Dr. Urbina uses ...Read more >

Samantha Truong, MD (she/her/ella) is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and an academic generalist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), who is devoted to compassionate and equitable care for marginalized populations, particularly forcibly displaced migrant communities. She completed her medical training at ...Read more >

I am a public health scholar with interdisciplinary training in behavioral science, epidemiology, and maternal and reproductive health, I earned my PhD in Behavioral Science and Health Education from Saint Louis University in May 2023. My academic and professional journey has addressed health disparities and reproductive injustice, particularly among historically excluded populations in both the ...Read more >

Dr. Gracia Sierra is an interdisciplinary researcher trained as an economist, sociologist, and demographer who investigates socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in population health outcomes. As a Data Scientist and Researcher at Resound Research for Reproductive Health, she applies experimental and quasi-experimental methods to survey and administrative data to study access to sexual and reproductive healthcare ...Read more >

I am an early-stage investigator and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health. I worked in public health practice and am a trained population health researcher and social epidemiologist with substantive and methodological expertise in violence prevention. I have trained in Population Centers as a T32 Population Science ...Read more >

Dr. Francine Naputi is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and CHamoru Studies at the University of Guam, where her research is dedicated to incorporating indigenous sexual health epistemologies into reproductive health discussion as well as education resources for indigenous youth in the Pacific. Dr. Naputi’s work centers on creating culturally grounded sex education curricula ...Read more >

I am an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Rutgers University and a practicing board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner with over two decades of clinical and academic experience. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rutgers University in 2001, followed by a Master of Science in Nursing and a Doctorate in Education from the ...Read more >