The spring meeting of the New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) was held on Friday, March 30, 2007 at Hampshire College. Over 50 reproductive rights & social justice activists met and attended the following panels:
Understanding the Right: A Prerequisite for Reproductive Justice
Facilitated by: Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates
While the Christian Right has been busy opposing abortion, the Right has been skillful in fashioning an interconnected set of strategies, including attacks on emergency contraception, the HPV vaccine, welfare, and immigrant “anchor babies.” What are the threads that tie these strategies together? How does examining this web further reproductive justice?
Disability Reproductive Justice: Where Our Movement Fits
Facilitated by: Stacey Milbern, National Youth Leadership Network, Naomi Ortiz, Kids As Self Advocates, Rachel Scoggins, Arts for All
Are you interested in learning about the disability community? Join us in moving forward with access, self-determination, and disability pride! We will discuss the disability rights movement, disability identity, and what’s happening in the disability community with sexual reproductive justice.
Balancing Our Own Joy
Facilitated by: Cara Page, Committee on Women, Population & the Environment, Adaku Utah, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
This experience will help you to find and sustain things that ground you or bring you back to your center in work, life and play. Using breath, sound, free writing, movement and guided meditation we will introduce practices that help to center the mind/body/spirit for use in our day to day organizing lives and our movements.
Spring 2007 NLNI Meeting Participants:
- Zina Age, Aniz, Inc.
- Patricia Barahona, New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Jessica Barclay-Strobel, Third Wave Foundation
- Cassandra Benton, Health Initiatives for Youth
- Toni Bond Leonard, African American Women Evolving, Inc.
- Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates
- Adele Coble, Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
- Tamarra Coleman-Hill, African American Women Evolving, Inc.
- Michelle Colon, Jackson, Mississippi Area NOW
- Cheryl Courtney-Evans, Aniz, Inc.
- Sarah Covert, Ms. Foundation for Women
- Shawna Davie, ACLU of Mississippi
- Kate DeMayo, Ipas
- Caeden Dempsey, Advocates for Youth
- Grayson Dempsey, Backline
- Molly Dilworth, Choice USA
- Shanta Evans, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut
- Bran Fenner, FIERCE!
- Allison Forth, SAGE
- Rev. Matthew Davis Fox, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
- Marlene Gerber Fried, Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program
- Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
- Ellen Gattozzi, Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program
- Aishia Glasford, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
- Kai Gurley, SisterSong
- Christy Hall, The Birth Attendants
- Cynthia C. Harris, The Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute
- Paris Hatcher, Georgians for Choice
- Lonna Hays, Ipas
- Dia Hodnett, The Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute
- Leslie Hu, Pro-Choice Public Education Project
- Maggie Kagan, Abortion Acess Project
- Christi Ketchum, Project South
- Lee Che Leong, New York Civil Liberties Union
- Nathan Levitt, International Jewish Solidarity Network
- Katie Mahoney, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas
- Stacey Milbern, National Youth Leadership Network
- Mia Mingus, Georgians for Choice
- Erin Moore, Advocates for Youth
- Maria Nakae, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
- Suely Ngouy, Khmer Girls in Action
- Naomi Ortiz, Kids As Self Advocates
- Cara Page, Committee on Women, Population & the Environment
- Eesha Pandit, RH Reality Check
- Mayadet Patitucci, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
- Miriam Zoila Pérez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
- Johanna Rincón, Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program
- Lourdes Rivera, Ford Foundation
- Mónica Roa, Women’s Link Worldwide
- Sandy Saeteurn, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
- Cara Saleska, Committee on Women, Population & the Environment
- Ariel Samach, New York Civil Liberties Union
- Rachel Scoggins, Arts for All
- Sarah Steinfeld, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
- Mia K. Sullivan, Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program
- Julia Elizabeth Sullivan, Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program
- Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, Pro-Choice Public Education Project
- Adaku Utah, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
- Tré Vasquez, Health Initiatives for Youth
- Juanita Williams, SisterSong
- Miriam Yeung, LGBT Community Center
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