TEACH - Key Persons
Alena Chavez serves as TEACH's Program Manager. At TEACH, she serves as our advocacy and communications point person, leading our advocacy training and legislative advocacy work to advance reproductive health, rights and justice. Alena graduated from San Francisco State University in 2019 with a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy with a double minor in Political Science and Race and Resistance Studies. She will be graduating in a few months, also from SF State, with a Master's Degree in Philosophy with a concentration in Race, Ethics, and Liberation. Before joining TEACH, Alena interned with some of the most progressive organizations in California such as: Bay Rising, Unite Here! Local 2, and the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. More recently, she was an intern and then fellow with NARAL Pro-Choice CA-and here, her passion for reproductive rights and justice advocacy was born.
Alena has a persistent voice for social justice and liberation, with over five years of diverse experience in mobilizing, organizing, and advocating for and alongside our country's most oppressed and marginalized communities. She completes this by engaging with movement-building tactics, public political education, electoral politics, direct action and advocacy to build individual and collective power with a deep commitment to abolition, harm-reduction, and transformative justice. By virtue of lived experience, and growing up in one of the California counties that does not have an abortion provider, she is excited to be part of a team that is dedicated to advocating for reproductive rights as they relate to reproductive justice, and to expanding access to equitable, essential, and comprehensive health care-including access to abortion care.
Dr. Wagner did her undergraduate studies at University of Puget Sound, attended medical school at University of Southern California and completed residency at the University of California San Francisco Family and Community Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Mai Fleming has had a vested interest in reproductive healthcare and family planning since her undergraduate studies in Gender and Sexuality, and volunteer work at Planned Parenthood during that time. She believes that access to full scope, trauma informed, and gender inclusive reproductive health care including abortion care was key to fostering justice and equity for people across racial, gender, and socioeconomic spectrums.
During residency, she participated in CREATE and in the following year completed the TEACH Fellowship as well as the Physicians for Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy, where she learned the importance of legislative, media, and organizational advocacy and began to develop and hone the skills necessary to continue that work and to teach others to do the same.
In addition to teaching abortion care through TEACH and working to expand its training curriculum, she teaches early ultrasound and MAB skills in the UCSF residency program and flies to provide abortion care in the Midwest. She also provides medication abortion gender affirming care across multiple states via telehealth.
Dr. Fleming grew up outside of Chicago, attended NYU for undergrad, and Jefferson Medical College for her MD. She completed her residency in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF based at San Francisco General Hospital.
Dr. Sarah McNeil, MD serves as Fellowship Director of the TEACH Program and Core Faculty at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, where she leads the reproductive health curriculum. Dr. McNeil co-founded TEACH's advanced training and leadership program and subsequently was chosen as the inaugural TEACH Leadership Fellow, through which she completed the Leadership Training Academy with Physicians for Reproductive Health. She recently completed UCSF's Faculty Development Fellowship.
Dr. McNeil continues to be active in reproductive health advocacy work, serving as the Contra Costa-Alameda delegate to the CAFP and as a California delegate to the National Conference of Constituency Leaders for the AAFP. Each year, she co-authors resolutions that TEACH brings to the state and national levels. She has lobbied in Sacramento and on Capitol Hill, and contributed to the public discourse on abortion through numerous editorials.
Dr. McNeil aims to improve access to comprehensive healthcare by providing and helping other primary care providers to integrate abortion services into their own practices. To this effect, she trains residents at Planned Parenthood and contributes to the online TEACH curriculum, including regular revisions of the TEACH-ANSIRH Workbook. She has lectured and led procedural simulations throughout the Bay Area, nationally, and in Australia. With the passage of AB 154 in 2013, which allows Advance Practice Clinicians to provide first trimester abortions, Dr. McNeil is keen to collaborate with ANSIRH, the UCSF School of Nursing, and recently trained colleagues throughout California.
Dr. McNeil did her undergraduate studies at Hamilton College, attended Dartmouth Medical School, and then completed her Family Medicine residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, CA, where she served as Chief Resident.
Job Titles:
- National Training Director for the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health 's Beyond
Dr. Goodman also serves as National Training Director for the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health's Beyond the Pill Program, where she has implemented training programs improving access and equity for thousands of healthcare providers including community clinics, school health centers, public health agencies, hospitals, and peer education groups.
Flor Hunt is a Peruvian-American advocate for sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. She currently serves as Executive Director of TEACH, a Bay Area based organization that works to develop the next generation of diverse reproductive health champions through abortion training and mentorship.
Flor has worked with a variety of international feminist organizations over the last 15 years to support local partners through philanthropy, capacity building and coalition building. She spent close to a decade at Fos Feminista, (formerly IPPF/WHR), working with partners across Latin America to advance sexual and reproductive rights and justice through intersectional advocacy and multi-country social accountability efforts. While at Fos Feminista, Flor developed the methodology and led a 25 country regional social monitoring initiative, Mira Que Te Miro, to monitor implementation of the Montevideo Consensus in Latin America and Caribbean, in collaboration with eight other regional networks, two universities and over 100 local NGOs.
Flor attended Cabrillo College, holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies from UC Berkeley, and a Master of International and Public Affairs from Princeton. She is a Women's Policy Institute Alum from the class of 2020 and is a 2022 RHRJ Rockwood Fellow. She currently sits on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom. Flor was born in Peru's Sacred Valley of the Incas, raised in Santa Cruz, California, and is bilingual in English and Spanish, fluent in Portuguese and speaks French. She is raising a small human, loves to travel, dance and surf, and eat her husband's delicious meals.
Job Titles:
- Special Events Coordinator
Meghana Atre serves as TEACH's Program Coordinator, and is responsible for coordinating TEACH's scheduling, CREATE program, and providing administrative and programmatic support. At TEACH, she serves as the coordinator between second and third-year residents and TEACH faculty abortion providers, and ensures each resident receives supervised clinical hours performing first-trimester abortion care at local training sites.
Meghana graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019 with a Bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology with a double minor in Chemistry and Psychology. She earned her Master's degree in Public Health with a focus in Population and Family Health, as well as a Certificate in Health and Human Rights, from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in 2022. She is passionate about making reproductive health and education more readily accessible to individuals of all backgrounds!
She is currently living in Chicago and enjoys spending time with friends and family, basking in good weather, and making the most of life