Goleen Samari is an Assistant Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Samari’s research focuses on disparities at the intersections of migration, race/ethnicity, and gender and sexual and reproductive health (SRH). She is a public health researcher and demographer and one of a ...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 >

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 >

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 >

Asha Hassan is an early career Health Services Researcher and Epidemiologist. Asha completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in Gender and Women’s Studies with minors in global health and African studies in 2015. After graduating she moved to Nairobi, Kenya for a year to work as a research fellow ...Read more >

Elise is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Kansas and former lobbyist, organizer, and media spokesperson for Planned Parenthood. Her research is deeply informed by her experience of working against abortion stigma in the legislative and political process. Elise currently serves as the Vice President of the Kansas Abortion Fund, where her ...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 >