Our Bodies, Ourselves (193 page)

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Ayesha Chatterjee's
leadership at Our Bodies Ourselves has resulted in resources based on
Our Bodies, Ourselves
in twelve languages. She serves on the board of directors of the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund. Previously, she worked as a sexuality counselor in India and Central Asia.

Christine Cupaiuolo
(christine2.com) covers women's health and public policy for Our Bodies Ourselves and Our Bodies, Our Blog. She also writes for other publications and edits articles and books on politics, culture, gender, and digital media.

Judy Norsigian
, executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves, is a cofounder of the organization and has worked on all commercial editions of this book. She has been a women's health advocate and activist for forty years.

Amy Romano, MSN, CNM
, is a nurse-midwife who has written extensively about evidencebased maternity care for books, online media, and professional journals. She has practiced full-scope midwifery in the home, birth center, and hospital settings and consulted for various maternity-related advocacy organizations.

Wendy Sanford
has been a coauthor of
Our Bodies, Ourselves
since 1969. “What a privilege to work with women, men and genderqueers of many generations who are devoted to keeping
OBOS
useful. Happy fortieth,
OBOS
! Polly and Rory, I love you.”

June Tsang
attended Brandeis University, where she became passionate about women's health advocacy. She is grateful to Our Bodies Ourselves for following their tradition of educating young women and for granting her the opportunity to be involved in the process of this edition.

Kiki Zeldes
has been part of the editorial team for the past four editions of
Our Bodies, Ourselves.
When not working on books, she develops content for and manages the Our Bodies Ourselves website.

Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur
is an occasional writer and an all-the-time activist. She compiled
Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak
, a seminal anthology of kick-ass women, because now, more than ever, the world needs to hear our voices.

John Abramson, M.D., MSc
, a family physician, is the author of
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
(overdosedamerica.com), is a lecturer in health policy at Harvard Medical School, and serves as an expert in litigation involving the pharmaceutical industry.

Rose Afriyie
is a black feminist pursuing an MPP at the University of Michigan. Her policy areas of interest are gender and sexual health. She is currently writing a book about balancing economic security with passionate engagement in work and is a contributor to the website Feministing.

Elizabeth Allemann, M.D.
(drallemann.com), is a family physician and acupuncturist in Missouri. She has attended births in hospitals, birth centers, and homes and believes it matters how we are born and how we give birth, and that maternity care must serve all mothers.

Paula Amato, M.D.
, is a reproductive endocrinologist and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.

Alison Amoroso, MEd
, earned her master's degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education and her bachelor's at Duke. She recently authored
Unwanted Hair and Hirsutism: A Book for Women
published by Your Health Press. Alison is a longtime feminist activist and resides in Atlanta.

Onyekachukwu C. Iloabachie Anaedozie, MPH, CPH
, is a Nigerian and New York City native who has made the decision to dedicate her career in public health to women's health. She currently works for the Department of Public Health in Philadelphia and lives with her husband, Obiora.

Jill Arnold
is an activist and the founder of the childbirth advocacy blog TheUnnecesarean.com.

Veronica Arreola
(vivalafeminista.com) is a professional feminist, a writer, and a mom who writes about feminism and motherhood.

Susan Ball, M.D., MPH
, is an HIV specialist at New York– Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College.

Mary Lou Ballweg
founded the Endometriosis Association (endometriosisassn.org) in 1980. The international organization's purpose is education, support, and research. She is the author of several books on the disease and many other published lay and scientific works.

Kelly Blanchard
is president of Ibis Reproductive Health. Ibis's mission is to improve women's reproductive autonomy, choices, and health worldwide. Kelly's research focuses on improving access to and simplifying abortion, contraception, and HIV prevention products and services.

Hanne Blank
(hanneblank.com) is the author of numerous books, including
Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them
(Ten Speed Press) and
Virgin: The Untouched History
(Bloomsbury).

Susan Blank, M.D., MPH
, is a medical officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, on assignment at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Chris Bobel
teaches women's studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of
The Paradox of Natural Mothering
and
New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation
, and coeditor of
Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms.

Zobeida Bonilla
is an assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She works with community health programs and coalitions that address the health needs of the Latino population throughout the country.

Ellen Bruce, J.D.
, is director of the Gerontology Institute in the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston (geront.umb.edu). She teaches elder law and policy and has served on many nonprofit boards, including as president of the national board of the Older Women's League.

Juaquita D. Callaway, M.D.
(holisticgynecology.com), is a holistic gynecologist in the metro Atlanta area. She blends conventional and natural treatment options to provide a comprehensive medical approach to women's health issues.

Kari Christianson
is the DES Action USA program director (desaction.org) and a DES daughter. She advocates for all DES-exposed individuals on the National Cancer Institute DES Follow-up Study Steering Committee and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Public Interest Partners.

Robyn Churchill, CNM, MSN
(mamah.org), has been a midwife in greater Boston for more than ten years. She is the director of midwifery at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has two teenagers and is an avid marathoner and rower in her spare time.

Lisa Codispoti
is senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center (nwlc.org) with its Health and Reproductive Rights Team, where she helps lead the center's work on women and health reform, with a particular focus on ensuring low-income women's access to comprehensive health care.

Pat Cody
was a pioneer in women's health. She founded DES Action, which brought mothers and the children affected together with doctors and researchers to make sure the effects of the drug were understood, and the children informed and cared for.

Barbara Collura
has served as executive director of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association since 2007. RESOLVE (resolve.org) is a nationwide advocacy and support organization for women and men diagnosed with infertility.

Katsi Cook
(indianyouth.org) is an elder Mohawk midwife, a founding member of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives of the Canadian Association of Midwives, and founding Aboriginal midwife of the Six Nations Birthing Centre at Six Nations, Ontario.

Heather Corinna
is the director of Scarleteen (scarle teen.com) and CONNECT, and the author of
S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College
, and could not be more honored to have been part of this book.

Mary Costanza, M.D.
, professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is a nationally known expert in breast cancer. After treating the disease for many years, she has focused her attention more recently on issues in screening and cancer control research.

Carol Dansereau
is an environmental organizer/attorney who works with farmworkers in Washington State on pesticide issues. Before joining the staff of the Farm Worker Pesticide Project, she was director of the Washington Toxics Coalition and worked for other nonprofits.

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD
, is associate executive director, Center for Genetics and Society (geneticsandsociety.org), a public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of human biotechnologies, from a perspective grounded in social justice, human rights, and health equity.

Elizabeth Davis, BA, CPM
(elizabethdavis.com), has been a midwife for more than thirty years and is cofounder of National Midwifery Institute, Inc. She is coauthor of
Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth Experience
and the classic midwifery text
Heart & Hands.

Dave deBronkart
(epatientdave.com) almost died of Stage IV kidney cancer in 2007. He was saved by great medicine, started blogging and advocating for the e-patient movement (empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled) on epatients.net, and is patient cochair of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

Bella DePaulo, PhD
(belladepaulo.com), earned her PhD at Harvard and is currently at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of
Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After
and the Living Single blog at the
Psychology Today
website.

Joan Ditzion
is a founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, coauthor of all editions of
Our Bodies, Ourselves
, and a geriatric social worker and educator. She appreciates the love and support of her husband, two sons and daughters-in-law, and new grandson.

Petra Doan, Ph.D., MRP
(coss.fsu.edu/durp/people/petra-l-doan), teaches urban and regional planning for developing countries at Florida State University. As a transsexual woman, she also writes about the tyranny of gendered planning and its social and economic impact on sexual and gender minorities.

Janet Dollin, MDCM, FCFP
, is a family physician and an associate professor at the University of Ottawa. She practices medicine, teaches, and mentors with a focus on women's health and leadership. She is a daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, and friend and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Leilani Doty, PhD
, director, University of Florida Cognitive and Memory Disorder Clinics, works on elder/women's health, dementias, brain health, academic leadership, and communication. Google her name and topic words for articles; regarding brain health/exercise and dementia, try alzonline.net.

Jen Dozer
is a writer, a registered nurse, and a mother after experiencing infertility.

Carol Ratliff Drury
is the education program coordinator and associate director of the Endometriosis Association (endometriosisassn.org), a self-help organization founded in 1980 with international headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has a particular interest in conditions
that often co-occur with endometriosis, especially candidiasis.

Kezia L. Ellison
is a Pittsburgh native who has a master's in women's health from Suffolk University and a bachelor's in human biology from Brown University. She is the founder and president of Educating Teens about HIV/AIDS, Inc.

Barbara Fildes, MS, CNM, FACNM
, is a certified nurse-midwife with more than thirty years of experience in a range of clinical settings. She is on the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School and is currently the manager of Regional Obstetrics Improvement, New England Alliance for Health at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Catherine Finn, MSW, LCSW
, is a health and medical writer. As a Senior Researcher at the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision in Boston, Cathy translates medical research to support the development of Shared Decision Making© programs in mental health, breast cancer, and palliative care.