Our Bodies, Ourselves (194 page)

Rebecca Firestone, ScD, MPH
, is a researcher with Population Services International (psi.org), committed to policy advocacy and program evaluation in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Anna Forbes, MSS
, an advocate, organizer, and writer, has worked in HIV/AIDS since 1985 and on women's health and rights since 1977. Now an independent consultant with an international client list, she has published numerous articles and eight childrens' books on HIV.

Stacey May Fowles
(staceymayfowles.com) is an essayist, a journalist, and the author of two novels. Her writing has appeared in various magazines and journals. Most recently, she coedited the anthology
She's Shameless: Women Write About Growing Up, Rocking Out and Fighting Back.

Ruth Fretts, M.D.
, is a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist who has been studying stillbirth for twenty-five years, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and former chairperson of the Scientific Committee for the International Stillbirth Alliance. She lives with her husband and three children in Brookline.

Marlene Gerber Fried, PhD
, is a longtime activist; founding president and board member, National Network of Abortion Funds; 2010–2011 acting president, professor, and faculty director, Civil Liberties and Public Program (CLPP), Hampshire College; and coauthor,
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice.

Jaclyn Friedman
(jaclynfriedman.com) is the director of Women, Action & the Media and a charter member of CounterQuo, a coalition challenging how we respond to sexual violence. Her anthology
Yes Means Yes!
was one of
Publisher's Weekly
's Top 100 Books of 2009.

Hilary Gerber
is a medical student at Nova Southeastern University planning to be an obstetrician-gynecologist, a predoctoral research fellow who studied labor and delivery interventions, a former midwifery student, and a mother.

Cait Glasson
(CaitieCat) is twice an immigrant: once coming home to Canada from the United Kingdom, once coming home to women's country. Both experiences have been happy, exciting, terrifying, and worth every moment. She blogs feministically at Shakesville (shakespearessister.blogspot.com).

Henci Goer
(hencigoer.com) specializes in evidence-based maternity care. She is the author of
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
and
Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities.
She is a resident expert on Lamaze International's website, where she moderates the “Ask Henci” forum.

Cynthia Gómez, PhD
, is director of the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University (healthequity.sfsu.edu), linking science and practice in the pursuit of health equity for all. She is a leading HIV prevention scientist and formerly codirected the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

Arielle Greenberg
(ariellegreenberg.net) is the author of two books of poetry and coeditor of several poetry anthologies. Her latest book is
Home/Birth: A Poemic
, written with Rachel Zucker. She is a birth activist and associate professor at Columbia College Chicago.

Alan Greene, M.D.
, is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, author of
Raising Baby Green and Feeding Baby Green
, founder and CEO of DrGreene.com, and founding president of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow Dr. Greene on Facebook and Twitter.

Marjorie Greenfield, M.D.
(marjoriegreenfield.com), is a professor of ob-gyn at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and author of
The Working Woman's Pregnancy Book.
She dates her interest in women's health to the original 1973 edition of
Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Thanks, BWHBC!

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, PhD
(brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/profiles/Gullette.html), is the author of
Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America
and a
scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. Her previous books include
Aged by Culture
and
Declining to Decline.

Polly F. Harrison, PhD
, an anthropologist, founded and directed the Alliance for Microbicide Development from 1998 through 2010. She previously led the Institute of Medicine's global health programs and worked in health research and policy analysis in Latin America. She is now senior adviser to AVAC.

Ted Heck, MCJ
, works in HIV prevention at the Virginia Department of Health. Volunteer activities include antiviolence and advocacy work in LGBQ and especially T communities of Virginia. He lives as an out trans man with his partner and cats in Richmond.

Steph Herold
is a reproductive justice activist who has worked in direct-service abortion care and reproductive health advocacy. She founded the website I Am Dr. Tiller and the blog Abortion Gang. She tweets from the handle @IAmDrTiller and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Katharine (Trina) Hikel, M.D.
, was peer-trained in women's health at the Berkeley, California, Women's Health Collective and in conventional medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She lives in Vermont with her family and works as an activist in maternity care reform.

Judi Hirschfield-Bartek, RN, MS, OCN
, has practiced as a clinical nurse specialist for more than thirty years and currently works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In 2010 she received the Silent Spring Institute's Rachel Carson Award for her breast cancer activism.

Christine Hitchcock, PhD
, is research associate at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR; cemcor.ubc.ca) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. She studies menstruation and progesterone therapy for perimenopausal and menopausal hot flushes and night sweats.

Anita P. Hoffer, PhD, EdD
, was formerly an associate professor (Harvard Medical School) and business specialist in women's health (Johnson & Johnson). Currently she educates women and their health care providers about sexuality throughout the life cycle, leads workshops, and does sex coaching.

Frances Howell
is a DES daughter and executive director of DES Action USA (desaction.org), the national nonprofit organization for those exposed to the antimiscarriage drug diethylstilbestrol.

Jin In
is Eastern born, Western bred with a global vision of empowering the world's poorest girls as a powerful lever to make our world better. She is the founding director and president of For Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL.org).

Deborah Issokson, PsyD
(reproheart.com), is a psychologist who specializes in perinatal mental health. She provides psychotherapy, training, supervision, and consultation to health care and mental health professionals. She maintains a private practice, Counseling for Reproductive Health & Healing, in Wellesley and Pembroke.

Jodi L. Jacobson
is a longtime leader in the health and development community and an advocate with extensive experience in public health, gender equity, human rights, environment, and demographic issues. She is currently editor in chief of RH Reality Check (rhrealitycheck.org).

Lisa Jervis
is the founding editor and publisher of
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture.
Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and she is the author of
Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
(cook-food.org).

Carole Joffe
is a professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UC San Francisco (ansirh.org). She is the author of
Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
and
Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After
Roe v. Wade.

Laura Kaplan
is the author of
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
, a former member of Jane, a board member of the National Women's Health Network, and a lifelong women's health advocate.

Mara Kardas-Nelson
is a freelance journalist focusing on health and the environment. She is the assistant editor of
Equal Treatment
, the magazine of the Treatment Action Campaign, and has been published in the United States, Canada, and South Africa.

Martha Ellen Katz, M.D.
, has practiced medicine with a focus on women's health for thirty years. She works at the Harvard University Health Services, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and teaches at the Harvard Medical School.

Jean Kilbourne
(jeankilbourne.com), creator of the award-winning
Killing Us Softly
films and author of
Can't Buy My Love
, is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising.

Tekoa King, CNM, MPH
, is a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive
Health at UC San Francisco and a member of the faculty obstetrics clinical practice. She is also a deputy editor for the
Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health.

Sheryl Kingsberg, PhD
, is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and is the chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Case Medical Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Cara Kulwicki
(thecurvature.com) is a feminist writer whose work centers on sexual assault and other forms of gender-based violence. She blogs at both the Curvature and Feministe.

Jacqueline Lapidus, MTS
(jacquelinelapiduswords.net), is an editorial consultant experienced in the fields of health care, business, and travel and is also a poet, translator, and essayist. She has taught writing skills for medical decision making and women's health advocacy at Harvard and Suffolk.

Sylvia Law
is a professor at New York University School of Law, and a scholar and activist on issues of health care and reproductive freedom. A founding board member of the Center for Reproductive Rights, she was a lawyer on many reproductive freedom cases.

Linda Layne, PhD
(rpi.edu/~laynel), is the mother of two fine sons. Her work includes
Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America
, the TV series
Motherhood Lost: Conversations
, collections on motherhood and consumption, and
Feminist Technology.
She is now studying single mothers by choice.

Margaret Lazarus
(cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org) is an Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker, author, women's rights and social justice activist, and university lecturer.

Mary Ann Leeper
is a senior strategic adviser for Female Health Company, a leader in the development of pharmaceuticals and products that address global women's health issues. She is an authority on international public health issues.

Esther Morris Leidolf
is a medical sociologist with a background in public health data management. She founded the MRKH Organization (mrkh.org) in 2000 and served as board secretary for the Intersex Society of North America. Her MRKH articles have been published internationally.

Judith Lennett
is the founder and executive director of Northnode, Inc. (northnode.org), a nonprofit agency that works to secure the safety and well-being of frail elders, people with disabilities, and adults and children affected by intimate partner violence.

Mitch Levine, M.D.
, is a gynecologist committed to providing patients with a less invasive approach to women's health care, especially by avoiding unnecessary surgeries, including hysterectomies. He has been in practice at Women Care, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1981.

Hope Lewis
(northeastern.edu/law/academics/faculty/directory/lewis.html), professor of law, Northeastern University School of Law, has been an advocate for women's human rights for more than twenty years. She coauthored
Human Rights and the Global Marketplace.

Elizabeth Sarah Lindsey
is committed to equality, fighting poverty, and developing creative urban development solutions. She holds a master's in public affairs and urban planning from Princeton University. Elizabeth lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Jonathan Rothwell.

Elaine Lissner
is founder of the Male Contraception Information Project and, since 2005, director of Parsemus Foundation (parsemusfoundation.org), which focuses on contraceptive research, animal sterilization, and the impact of hormones on health.

Alice LoCicero, PhD
, is a clinical psychologist with a long-standing interest in conventional and alternative approaches to women's health. She has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Maurizio Macaluso, MD, Dr PH
, is an epidemiologist and is professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He was chief of the Women's Health and Fertility Branch at the CDC, where he led surveillance and research on infertility and assisted reproduction.

Alyson Martin
is a freelance journalist living in New York City.

Courtney Martin
(courtneyemartin.com) is the author of
Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists
, among other critically acclaimed books, an editor at Feministing, and a senior correspondent for
The American Prospect.