COLLECTIVE POWER - Key Persons
Abigail Fisher is a civic designer who believes her role is to hold space and break down bureaucracy so that communities can design for themselves. Using methods derived from communication design, service design, art, and social justice, Abigail weaves together groups of co-designers with professional and lived/living experience. Abigail was previously a design lead at New York City's Civic Service Design Studio and is currently working with the Colorado Digital Service focused on improving mental health care through co-created technology and systems. Outside of her 9-5, Abigail works on the Roots of Reproductive Justice history project, aiming to make history accessible to activists, as well as supporting Parent's Rights groups like Movement for Family Power and JMACforFamilies. Abigail is also a volunteer case lead with Cornell's Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA), assisting survivors of intimate partner violence in securing their technology.
Aisha Mahama-Rodríguez is an Afro-Latine raised in Dallas, Texas. Aisha is passionate about food and environmental justice, prison decarceration and abolition, and how these matters interact with reproductive justice as a whole. A recent graduate from The University of Texas at Austin with Bachelors in English and Government, she has worked with the Texas Civil Rights Project, the Texas House of Representatives, the ACLU of Colorado, and the U.S. House of Representatives. As a Collective Rising intern in year, she worked with the Reproductive Rights portion of the ACLU of Colorado and conducted research on reproductive healthcare access for people in the Colorado carceral system as well as led reproductive rights webinars.
Aisha Tipnis is a junior at Brown University studying Science, Technology, and Society with a focus on medical anthropology and health sciences. Whether it be in the research process or clinical practice, Aisha hopes to pursue a career remedying structural inequities in sexual and reproductive healthcare fields. Teaching sexual education to high schoolers in Providence and interning at Planned Parenthood both affirm Aisha's passions for education and access. Ultimately, Aisha hopes to bring an essential reproductive justice lens to the scientific community.
Alison Frisella is a rising senior at Lesley University, dual majoring in Political Science and Math Studies with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Growing up in New Hampshire, they have been involved in politics since they were in middle school and have worked on several campaigns throughout high school and college. In addition to organizing, they have always loved teaching and spent their sophomore year of college teaching classes at their former high school. After graduation, they plan to pursue graduate study in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Allison Farley is a rising Junior at the University of Tennessee majoring in Women, Gender & Sexuality and minoring in Political Science. Originally from Long Valley, NJ, she plans to follow her passions to a career in reproductive rights. She is particularly passionate about expanding sex education and reproductive healthcare to comprehensively include the LGBTQ+ community and underserved "unconventional" bodies. She is active in the Knoxville and UT community, playing for the ultimate frisbee team and being a part of Planned Parenthood Generation Action Council.
Alyssa Stenson is a black queer reproductive justice organizer. Currently, Alyssa is an abortion doula and does self-managed abortion education. As a 2020 Collective Rising intern, she completed an internship at Advocates for Youth. Alyssa's Collective Rising Fellowship will focus on building relationships and supporting reproductive justice needs within the Southeast region.
Andrea Nieto is a Political Science major at DePaul University minoring in Legal and Public Affairs. She works at Mujeres Latinas en Accion as Lead Community Health Worker, where she works towards improving health equity within the Latinx community in Chicago. Her passion for advancing women's rights has also led her to intern for various organizations like Planned Parenthood, the U.S Department of State, and Access Community Health Network.
In her free time, she loves to travel, collect vintage home decor, dance the night away with her friends at music festivals, and design and sew her own clothing.
Anna Li is a political science major at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a passionate advocate for abortion access for all people of all ages.
Job Titles:
- Senior Policy Analyst for Challenging Population Control
- Staff
Anne Hendrixson is the Senior Policy Analyst for Challenging Population Control at Collective Power. Before joining Collective Power, Anne was the Director of PopDev, the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, and a lecturer in the school of critical social inquiry, where she taught for four years. Her work centers on how to understand and resist today's population control in relation to changing global population trends, repressive reproductive politics, rising Far Right attacks on civil liberties, and worsening climate change. She tracks population politics along the political spectrum, focusing on when population is wrongly used to rationalize injustices like forced sterilization, border restrictions, and vigilante violence against BIPOC communities. She is currently researching the "great replacement" conspiracy-that falsely claims that so-called elites are replacing white Americans with Black and Brown immigrants-and its use in eco-fascist and related Far Right rhetoric against abortion, birth control, immigrants, and "overpopulation."
She is the author of a number of popular articles including "Don't Blame Babies (or Their Mothers) for Climate Change," with Jade Sasser; a "Population" definition for Uneven Earth with Diana Ojeda, "If you care about climate change, should you have children?" and "Greening Malthus." Her scholarly articles include a forthcoming chapter in an Elgar Handbook on migration called, "Challenging the ‘Lifeboat Discourse' on population and migration," "Threats and Burdens: Challenging Scarcity-Driven Narratives of ‘Overpopulation'" with Betsy Hartmann, and "Population Control in the Troubled Present: The ‘120 by 20' Target and Implant Access Program." As part of a feminist collective, Anne co-edited "Confronting Populationism: Feminist Challenges to Population Control in an Era of Climate Change," a special issue of Gender, Place & Culture 27,3 (2020) and contributed to three co-authored articles in it.
Anne Keenan is a strategist with non-profit, foundation, and agency experience, and is the Vice President of Marketing at Merit America. Anne previously worked at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, where she supported portfolio organizations with their organizational and marketing strategy, and as a partner at Purpose; her clients have included March of Dimes, Everytown for Gun Safety, Voya, Nike, IAVA, DoSomething, Unilever, and many others. Anne also served as the Director of Online Content and New Media Strategy at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and worked at Planned Parenthood of New York City and Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College. She is a member of the Board of the New York Civil Liberties Union and previously served on the boards of the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund and the New York Abortion Access Fund.
Annie Romano is a senior studying Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and English online at Arizona State University. She is able to attend college through my employer, Starbucks, which partners with ASU. She is a proud first-generation college student in a family created by two incredible Bolivian immigrant parents. She sees the fight for reproductive justice as an obligation to honor the women in my family who came before her. In addition to reproductive justice, she is also passionate about body liberation and look forward to creating a future with accessible, anti-racist, size-inclusive healthcare for all.
Bria Arielle Miller is a 19 year old psychology student attending Hampton University. Her love all things that encourage expression of one's individuality and the creative things about ourselves that make us unique. They look forward to collaborate and learn more about themself and the world around them.
Job Titles:
- Programs Manager for Collective Power 's Conference
- Staff
Brooke Lisay Huguley is the Programs Manager for Collective Power's Conference and Campus Programs. She earned her BA from Hampshire College and triple majored in reproductive justice, anthropology, and dance. Brooke believes in the innate healing power our bodies hold to recover from trauma and liberate from harm. Her Research focuses on how embodied practice can be healing for those impacted by reproductive injustice. She is a certified birth doula and registered yoga teacher working towards dismantling the injustice within our medical system by centering the wisdom of her ancestors, earth, and community.
Caitlyn Bull is a rising fourth year at Oberlin College. She spent her formative years in Madagascar & Kenya before moving to Maine. She is a Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies major with double minors in Law and Society & Comparative American Studies and a concentration in Global Health. She is also a Leadership Circle member for the Oberlin Doula Collective, a collective that provides abortion doula support and is in the process of obtaining her birth doula certification. In her free time she enjoys painting, baking, and playing rugby!
Courtney Hooks is an Atlanta-based black, queer certified nurse midwife and reproductive health nurse practitioner dedicated to the care of underserved and historically looted communities. Before becoming a midwife, Courtney served as a full spectrum doula, reproductive justice advocate, and community organizer. In collaboration with people inside of California's women's prisons, she led Justice Now's Let Our Families Have a Future campaign, which focused on ending prison expansion, sterilization abuse, and reproductive oppression against imprisoned individuals. Courtney has supported folks in the sex trade, helped start a syringe exchange program, and co-organized holistic community health clinics. Courtney is a former student co-organizer of the annual Collective Power conference and Collective Rising Intern. She loves Steven Universe, squealing at plants, and memes, generally.
Cynthia Lin is a curriculum design consultant working with the Roots of Reproductive Justice History in Action Project. She is also Deputy Director of Movement Building at the National Network of Abortion Funds and a board member at WMF Wisconsin (an NNAF member abortion fund). She lives with her partner, toddler, and dogs on occupied lands that the Ho Chunk call Teejop, otherwise known as Madison, WI.
Daisy Boyd is a junior at Mount Holyoke College, majoring in anthropology with a minor in sociology. In addition, she is pursuing the Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice (RHRJ) Certificate through the Five College Consortium. She is passionate about expanding the accessibility of reproductive health care, and hopes to incorporate her interest in medical anthropology in her future endeavors.
Daniela Juarez is currently a senior at the University of Texas at Dallas majoring in sociology and political science. She will be starting a sociology Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago this upcoming fall hoping to research educational inequalities among undocumented immigrants. They believe that research should be accessible to individuals to make effective change and have been dedicated to working within community organizations that address reproductive justice and inequalities within the undocumented community. Daniela was a Collective Rising Intern in 2021 at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
Duncan Coltharp is enrolled at the University of Maryland College Park in their Public Health program.He is interested in policy and advocacy directed at young men and boys with a focus on health promotion, pro-social behavior, and safe gender expression. He hopes to create programs that will help free boys from toxic gender constraints and reduce violence through positive social support systems. The qualities that matter most to him are Integrity, Collaboration, and Authenticity.
Emy Collins is an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College, majoring in Africana Studies with a concentration in Community Engagement and Social Change. Her focus is on public health and reproductive justice within Black birthing communities. As a Black woman and mother negatively affected medical racism, she strives to increase positive outcomes for birthing people and children of color.
Ericka Ayodele Dixon (they, them) is a Black, queer, disabled person currently serving as the Disability Project Senior National Organizer at the Transgender Law Center. Ericka is first and foremost an educator, writer and facilitator, and has extensive experience developing curriculum and training based on the intersections of disability justice, racial justice and gender justice. As a survivor of sexual violence themself, Ericka believes this work is both deeply personal and political and grounds everything they do using a queer, Black feminist lens. Ericka holds a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a B.A. in Culture, Society and Human Rights from Emory University.
Eunice Ruiz is a rising senior at Wellesley College. They are majoring in Women's and Gender Studies with a concentration in Feminist Science, Health, and Technology. They are passionate about reproductive justice and are very excited for this opportunity to work with the LA LGBT Center! Fun facts: they love listening to reggaeton, going on scenic walks, and playing basketball with friends whenever they can.
Evelyn Boateng-Ade is double majoring in Public Health and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, with a minor in Law & Society, on the pre-law track. Evelyn is from Newark, NJ, but her roots originate in Ghana. Evelyn is a champion for health equity, constantly challenging the status quo to advocate for change in the health care systems in the United States, and in Ghana. Evelyn plans to attend law school, where she will be pursuing a career in health law.
Gianna Jirak is a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar at New York University. She is studying Global Public Health and Sociology with a minor in Social Work. Outside of school, Gianna is a huge theatre fan and has seen over 20 Broadway shows, as well as a few regional productions.