Our Bodies, Ourselves (195 page)

Ginny Mazur, MA, LMHC, ATR
, has served as community partnership director and in other jobs at Goddard House Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center and Goddard House in Brookline Assisted Living (goddardhouse.org) for the past fifteen years.

Marianne McPherson, PhD, MS
, is a mother and a public health researcher with a passion for young women's reproductive
health, skiing, and tea. She's worked and studied at NICHQ, Our Bodies Ourselves, Ibis Reproductive Health, Harvard, and the Heller School.

Elise Miller, MEd
, is the director of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (healthandenvironment.org), an international partnership strengthening the scientific and public dialogue on environmental contributors to disease and disability and fostering initiatives to address these concerns.

Irene Monroe
(irenemonroe.com) is a Huffington Post blogger and a queer religion columnist. A native of Brooklyn, Monroe is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary, and served as a pastor before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a Ford Fellow.

Heidi Moore
is a writer and editor in Chicago who focuses on culture, health, and environmental issues. Her writing has appeared in the
Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago
, and the Chicago guidebook, among other publications.

Cathleen E. Morrow, M.D.
, is associate professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Her clinical focus has been in women's health and obstetrics-gynecology throughout her career; she currently practices and teaches broad spectrum family medicine.

Christine Morton, PhD
, is a medical sociologist whose research focuses on maternity care advocacy by doulas, childbirth educators, and, more recently, obstetric clinicians. She is the founder of ReproNetwork.org and is currently with California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.

Shree Mulay
(med.mun.ca/medicine/faculty/mulay,-shree.aspx) is the associate dean and professor in the Community Health and Humanities Division at Memorial University. She has worked for decades on issues related to unsafe contraceptives, assisted human reproduction, and reproductive tourism.

Claire Mysko
(clairemysko.com) is a body image expert and the author of
You're Amazing!
—a self-esteem handbook for girls—and coauthor of
Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby.

Elizabeth H. Naumburg, M.D.
, is currently an associate dean for advising and professor of family medicine at the University of Rochester. Her career has focused on women's health and the issues of gender and race in health care and medical education.

Lin Nelson
teaches environment and community studies at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. She works with organizations dealing with environment, workplace, women's lives, and reproductive rights. She's doing community-based research on how mining and metal smelting affect public health.

Amie Newman
is a longtime womens' health advocate who has directed communications for a feminist health center, has served as submissions editor for
Our Truths, Nuestras Verdades
, and is currently managing editor for the award-winning reproductive health news publication RH Reality Check (rhrealitycheck.org).

Deanna Nobleza, M.D.
, is dual board certified in internal medicine and psychiatry and specializes in college mental health. Having previously worked at Princeton University, Dr. Nobleza is currently the director of student counseling at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Craig Norberg-Bohm
cofounded in 1978 RAVEN (Rape and Violence End Now) in St. Louis, Missouri. Craig operates Massachusetts White Ribbon Day (janedoe.org/white ribbonday), a men's campaign of Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.

Gina Ogden, PhD LMFT
(ginaogden.com), is a sex therapist and workshop leader. She conducted a nationwide survey on sexuality and spirituality. Her latest books are
Women Who Love Sex, The Heart and Soul of Sex
, and
The Return of Desire.

Chukwuma Onyeije, M.D.
(chukwumaonyeije.com), is a board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist and clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Morehouse School of Medicine. His interests are technology, women's health, and patient empowerment through social media and participatory medicine.

Leslye Orloff
is vice president and director of Legal Momentum's Immigrant Women Program and a cofounder and cochair of the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women. She has written training curricula, manuals, and story collections bringing immigrant women's voices to national policy makers.

Margaret Owusu
is an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is studying health and societies with a concentration in public health. After Penn, she will pursue a career in public health, focusing primarily on adolescent health.

Ruth Palombo, PhD
, assistant secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, designs programs that foster empowerment, independence, and well-being for older adults. She is a national leader in nutrition, aging,
health promotion, chronic disease prevention, and end-of-life issues.

William Parker, M.D.
, is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and in private practice in Santa Monica, California. He is the author of the women's health care book
A Gynecologist's Second Opinion.

Debra Pascali-Bonaro, LCCE, CD (DONA)
, is the director of the documentary
Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret
(orgasmicbirth.com) and coauthor of
Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth Experience.
Debra is chairperson of the International Mother-Baby Childbirth Initiative.

Su Penn
(tapeflags.blogspot.com) was very happy to be asked to help with this edition of OBOS.

Miriam Zoila Pérez
(miriamzperez.com) is a writer, blogger, and reproductive justice activist. She is an editor at Feministing and founder of Radical Doula. Pérez was presented with a 2010 Barbara Seaman Award for Activism in Women's Health.

Lisa Perriera, M.D., MPH
, is an obstetrician-gynecologist who specializes in family planning. Her main areas of interest are the prevention of unintended pregnancy and contraceptive management of women with bleeding disorders and complicated medical conditions.

Elizabeth Pimentel, ND
, trained as a naturopathic physician and midwife. She is committed to empowering women to take charge of their bodies and their health. She currently serves as associate dean of academics at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine.

Yvonne Piper, MLIS
, has worked in health and sex education since 1998. She attends UCSF School of Nursing and volunteers at San Francisco Sex Information and Women's Community Clinic. In addition to writing, she enjoys scuba diving, running, biking, reading, and gluten-free food.

Lauren Plante, M.D., MPH
, is the director of maternal-fetal medicine at an academic medical center in Philadelphia, which probably would not like her to name it. She is board-certified in anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ob-gyn, and maternal-fetal medicine and still supports birth choices.

Diana Aquino Price
is a fierce advocate for and scholar of feminist issues. She earned her BA from Barnard College in 2006 and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Asian-American studies at University of California, Los Angeles.

Jerilynn Prior
is a professor of endocrinology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and scientific director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR; cemcor.ubc.ca). Her research has shown the importance of progesterone to women's health and that perimenopause is hormonally distinct from menopause.

Jenni Prokopy
is founder and editrix of ChronicBabe.com, a resource for young women with chronic illness. An award-winning writer, speaker, and health expert, she shares her personal experience and rallies the expertise of others to help women live beyond illness.

Holly Ramsey-Klawsnik, PhD
, Klawsnik & Klawsnik Associates, Canton, Massachusetts, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed certified social worker, and researcher. Her research, clinical practice, teaching, and publications have focused on interpersonal violence, mental health issues, and self-care.

Nushin Rashidian
is a freelance journalist living in New York City.

Nancy Redd
(nancyredd.com) is a
New York Times
best-selling author of
Body Drama
and
Diet Drama
and a Harvard women's studies graduate. She is on a worldwide speaking tour designed to help all women love our bodies inside and out!

Jessica Haxton Retrum, PhD, LCSW
, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Health Systems and Service Research, CU Denver. She has eight years of clinical experience in health related social work and her doctoral research was related to social work in the field of gerontology.

Marcie Richardson, M.D.
, is an obstetrician-gynecologist who believes the only way that women can really be empowered is to understand and take charge of their bodies. To this end, she is privileged to have worked on multiple editions of
Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Gary Richwald, M.D., MPH
, is a communicable disease expert with training in internal medicine, epidemiology, and women's health. He teaches at UCLA and USC and is the medical adviser of the Los Angeles and Orange County HSV and HPV support groups.

Karin Ringheim, PhD, MPH
, is an independent consultant in global health. She is a past adviser for the Population Reference Bureau and a past adviser for USAID and the World Health Organization. Publications include a book on homelessness and numerous articles on reproductive health and gender.

Susan Roll, PhD
, is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching focus on urban poverty, community practice, and social welfare policy.

Loretta J. Ross
is a cofounder and the national coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (sistersong.net). She has a thirty-five-year-plus history in the feminist movement, from antirape organizing to reproductive justice activism.

Carol Sakala
is director of programs at Childbirth Connection (childbirthconnection.org), a national not-for-profit organization that uses research, education, advocacy, and policy to improve the quality of maternity care and ensure that it meets the needs and interests of women, newborns, and families.

Gordon Schiff
is a practicing internist, associate director of Brigham Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard. He worked for more than three decades at Chicago's Cook County Hospital, where he directed the General Medicine Clinic.

Susan Sered, PhD
, author of
Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity
and
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women
, is on the faculty of Suffolk University. Her current research focuses on life challenges of criminalized women.

Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD, MPH
, is codirector of the Center for Policy Analysis (centerforpolicyanalysis.org). The center sponsors the EQUAL Health Network, which campaigns for equitable, quality, universal, affordable health reform; and the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), which explores the links between international trade agreements, vital human services, and health.

Grace Shih, M.D., MAS
, is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. When she's not seeing patients, you can find her cooking, hiking, or salsa dancing.

Jocelyn Sims
is a Chicago area writer and editor. As an Asian-American woman, she has a particular interest in how Asian women are portrayed in television and film and researched the topic for her master's culminating project.

Norman Spack, M.D.
, is a pediatric endocrinologist and cofounder of Gender Management (GeMS) Service at Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, which treats transgender youth and children with disorders of sex development (DSD).

Kimberly Springer
(kimberlyspringer.com) is associate professor of women's studies specializing in mass media, social movements, and digital culture. Her books include
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980
and
Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women's Activism.

Elizabeth Steiner, M.D.
, is a physician who specializes in family medicine: whole person, whole family, and whole community health. She teaches and does research to improve early detection of breast cancer.

Heather Stephenson
was the managing editor of the 2005 edition of
Our Bodies, Ourselves
, editor of
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
, and executive editor of
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth.
She is the publisher at the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Evelina Sterling, PhD, MPH, CHES
, is a reproductive health researcher and educator as well as the author of several consumer health books focusing on women's health.