Ryan Pryor is a white, queer and trans midwife and nurse. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is a Family Nurse Practitioner student.

Miriam Zoila Pérez is a queer Cuban-American writer, consultant and activist. She works with reproductive justice and LGBT rights organizations on strengthening their digital communications. and writes about the intersections of race, health and gender on her blog, Radical Doula, and at RH Reality Check, where she is a columnist. (miriamzperez.com)

Sebastian Margaret’s involvement with disability culture and multi – issue community resiliency spans 30 years. Informed by working/welfare class life, values and skills, Sebastian roots his work in racial, class, gender and immigration justice. He has trained and consulted extensively on Disability justice, class justice and anti-racism for grassroots organizations, service providers, conferences’ and community organizing efforts.

Roksana Mun is an immigrant New Yorker who was born in Bangladesh. She has been a member of DRUM YouthPower! since 2003 when she graduated the Youth Power! Summer Community Organizing Institute. Roksana is a graduate of Dickinson College with a degree in International Studies concentrating on the Middle East. She has served as a Youth Organizer from 2007-9 and rejoined staff in 2011. Roksana has worked as a Legal Advocate at the Urban Justice Center serving low-income/no income New Yorkers on their right to accessing welfare benefits. She is currently the Youth Organizer building youth leadership to win immigrant rights, law enforcement accountability and education justice.

Doha is an Egyptian American student living in NYC and a queer feminist radical youth leader.

Tory Field is an organizer living in Massachusetts. She worked for many years as a community organizer with Arise for Social Justice, a multi-issue community justice organization in Springfield, MA., where she now serves on the Board of Directors. Tory is currently coordinating a weekly program with women incarcerated in Rhode Island’s state prison and their daughters, and is also a resource trainer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond Anti-racism trainings.

Hermelinda Cortes is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant father and a white factory-workinʼ mama. Raised on a small farm amidst the Southern delicacies of potato salad and mole, she is a working class Xicana Queer from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where she organizes with Southerners On New Ground, a gaggle of queer heart throbs workings for racial and economic justice in the South.

Megan Lieff has been learning how to Holla Back, up and down the east coast, since training as a rape crisis counselor back in 2009. Currently her research focuses on narratives surrounding rape and assault in sexual sub-cultures. When this doesn't have her up to her eye-balls in work, she's teaching sex-ed, learning statistics and desperately awaiting some new Dr. Who.

N.B. Sarojini is Director of Sama-Resource Group for Women and Health, a Delhi-based women’s organisation. She has been working as a health activist in the field of women’s health for the last 25 years and is actively involved with the women’s movement and health movement. She has actively campaigned against the two-child norm, population control policies, sex-selective abortions, hazardous contraceptive technologies, unethical conduct of clinical trials on marginalized communities, and issues related to human rights and violence (including communal).

Anissa Hélie grew up in Algiers, Algeria, and has been involved with various women’s organizations and transnational networks – serving as Director of the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) International Coordination Office for 5 years (2000-2004). She speaks internationally on sexuality, wars and conflicts, religious fundamentalisms and women’s human rights. She has widely published on these topics, including: Documenting Women’s Rights Violations by Non-State Actors: Experiences of Activists from Muslim communities and “The Politics of Abortion Policy in the Heterogeneous Muslim World”

Jacqui Quetal, FNP is the Co-Founder of Nursing Students for Choice and a Family Nurse Pracitioner. She believes that nurses should be able to talk to patients about sex, birth control and abortion. The organization promotes women's health and reproductive rights through advocacy, activism, provider education and training.

Kai Devlin began his activist career in early 2003. For nearly ten years, he has presented workshops and training sessions on LGB and transgender issues in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. When he's not battling oppression and transphobia, Kai is a hiking enthusiast and nature photographer in the Pioneer Valley.

Reina Gossett lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and believes creativity & imagination are vital in movements for self determination. She is a trans activist & artist blogging at thespiritwas.tumblr.com and works at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Reina’s writing has been featured in Barnard College’s The Scholar & Feminist Online, as well as Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment & The Prison Industrial Complex, Post Post Script Press and Randy Magazine.

Lindsey O-Pries is the Member Support Coordinator for the National Network of Abortion Funds, where she focuses her energy on joining member Funds in creating powerful and sustainable organizations from the ground up, while simultaneously defeating the Hyde Amendment. Lindsey is a co-founder of the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project, a Network member abortion Fund and also has worked with many other social justice organizations over the past 11 years. She received a BA in Women’s Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, although most of her education has come from the lived experiences of fierce people in this movement and her home, Richmond, VA.

Dulani has been working at the intersections of LGBTQ, Youth, Immigrant Justice and Anti-Violence Movements for the past 13 years. He is the Co-Editor of the anthology, The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Currently, he is Co-Director of FIERCE, an organization that builds the leadership and power of LGBTQ Youth of Color in New York City and nationally.

Laural Wheeler has 4 children ages 1. She lives in Olympia Washington. In October 2011 she was sent to prison when she was 5 months pregnant. She is very thankful for the Prison Doula Project. She thanks you for this wonderful opportunity to share her story.

Victoria Law is a writer, mother & prison abolitionist. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and the co-editor of Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Supporting Families in Social Justice Movements. She is working with WORTH's Birthing Behind Bars campaign, which links reproductive justice & incarceration issues.

Chloe Collins is a senior at Smith College where she is studying Women & Gender and Book Studies. She is a peer sexual assault educator with On Standby, a Smith College student organization dedicated to primary prevention and sexual assault harm reduction.

Erika Cordova is a co-founder of Mi Lola. She is a Honduran activist that has lived in Miami for over 10 years and has made it her mission to raise awareness of the impact that gender, race, and immigration status have in the lives of under-represented communities around the globe. During her free time, Erika enjoys comedy relief, arts and culture, traveling and volunteering.

Monica Raye Simpson has organized extensively against human rights violations, the prison industrial complex, racism and intolerance, and the systematic physical and emotional violence inflicted upon the minds, bodies and spirits of African Americans with an emphasis on African American women and the African American LBGT community. Monica is also a performance artist and is committed to using her talents of in her local community and nationally to address social justice issues.

Pat Hynes is a retired environmental engineer and Professor of Environmental Health who worked on issues of the urban environment (including lead poisoning, asthma and the indoor environment, safe housing, community gardens and urban agriculture); environmental justice; and feminism at Boston University School of Public Health. For her writing, teaching, and applied research, she has won numerous awards, including the US EPA Lifetime Achievement Award (2009), the 2003 National Delta Omega Award for Innovative Curriculum in Public Health; the US EPA Environmental Merit Award for Healthy Public Housing (2004) project and the Lead-Safe Yard Project (2000); and the 1996 National Arbor Day Foundation Book Award for A Patch of Eden, her book on community gardens in inner cities,. She is the author and editor of 7 books, including The Recurring Silent Spring and, most recently, Urban Health: Readings in the Social, Built and Physical Environments of U.S. Cities. She is currently publishing and speaking on the health effects of war and militarism on society and on women, in particular, and climate justice, renewable energy, and the hazards of nuclear power. She directs the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice in western Massachusetts http://traprock.info/index.shtml) .

Finn Schubert is the Program Coordinator at RHEDI / Reproductive Health Education in Family Medicine. He is a CLPP alum, and currently serves on the board of Sadie Nash Leadership Project and on the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference Working Group on Medical and Alternative Healthcare. Finn is pursuing a Master's of Public Health in Epidemiology at Hunter College. twitter: @finnschubert

Reina Gossett lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and believes creativity & imagination are vital in movements for self determination. She is a trans activist & artist blogging at thespiritwas.tumblr.com and works at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Reina’s writing has been featured in Barnard College’s The Scholar & Feminist Online, as well as Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment & The Prison Industrial Complex, Post Post Script Press and Randy Magazine.

Programs and Development Coordinator, Pridelines Youth Services

Adam Ortiz is a House Director at Hampshire College. He graduated from Wheaton College with a B.A. in English in 2005 and from the University of Vermont in 2010 with an M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs.

Sandra Criswell is a red state organizer who hangs her hat in Wichita and her heart in Oklahoma City. She blogs, edits, and serves on the board at Oklahomans for Reproductive Justice (OK4RJ) and is the Director of Communications at Trust Women. She is also one of the red state weirdos behind Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice Conference.

Terry Boggis is the Director of the Ford Foundation-funded Ettelbrick Project for LGBTQ Family Recognition at the Stonewall Community Foundation in New York City. In 1989, she was one of the founders of Center Kids (now Center Families), the family program of the LGBT Community Center in New York. She became the program's director in 1997, a role she held until 2011. She is also a founding and current board member of Queers for Economic Justice.

Laural Wheeler has 4 children ages 1. She lives in Olympia Washington. In October 2011 she was sent to prison when she was 5 months pregnant. She is very thankful for the Prison Doula Project. She thanks you for this wonderful opportunity to share her story.

Tina Reynolds is the co-founder and chair of Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) which is an organization run and led by currently and formerly incarcerated women in Harlem NY. Reynolds gained her Masters in Social Work from Hunter College and is an adjunct professor in York, CUNY behavioral sciences department. She is also co-editor of "Interrupted Life:Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States"

Jacqueline Patterson is the co-founder and convener of Women of Color United as well as the Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. She has a history of working in the areas of gender justice, disability rights, racial justice, economic justice, and health justice domestically and internationally.

Jade Sasser, PhD has published articles on gender, population politics, and environmental debates in international development. Her current research is focused on gender, poverty, and climate change in Africa. Professor Sasser teaches courses on women of color in the U.S., women’s bodies, health, and sexuality, and women in global communities.

Gabriel Foster is a black, queer, trans, ‘momma’s boy’ living and loving in New York. Along with Karen Pittelman, he is one of the co-organizers of the Trans Justice Funding Project. Gabriel is also a staff member doing community organizing at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

N.B. Sarojini is Director of Sama-Resource Group for Women and Health, a Delhi-based women’s organisation. She has been working as a health activist in the field of women’s health for the last 25 years and is actively involved with the women’s movement and health movement. She has actively campaigned against the two-child norm, population control policies, sex-selective abortions, hazardous contraceptive technologies, unethical conduct of clinical trials on marginalized communities, and issues related to human rights and violence (including communal).

Dr. Sylvia Estrada-Claudio is a doctor of medicine who also holds a PhD in Psychology. She is Director of the University of the Philippines Center for Womens Studies and Professor of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines.

Senti Sojwal is a fourth-year student at Hampshire College from NYC concentrating in women's and gender studies and creative writing. She has been involved with CLPP for the past three years and is a co-chair this year for the conference's outreach committee.

Terry Boggis is the Director of the Ford Foundation-funded Ettelbrick Project for LGBTQ Family Recognition at the Stonewall Community Foundation in New York City. In 1989, she was one of the founders of Center Kids (now Center Families), the family program of the LGBT Community Center in New York. She became the program's director in 1997, a role she held until 2011. She is also a founding and current board member of Queers for Economic Justice.

Elizabeth Atwell is a senior Public Policy and Global Studies major at the University of North Carolina from Boone, NC. She is the co-chair of Students United for Reproductive Justice and is also president of EmpowerU, a women’s microfinance 501(c)3 based out of Kumi, Uganda. Elizabeth has worked as an intern for the UNC Law School’s Center on Poverty Work and Opportunity.

Jill Grimaldi is the Instructional designer for the Center for Women & Community (formerly Everywoman's Center). She is responsible for co-coordinating the CWC's volunteer Educator Advocates in providing free workshops and events to educate the Hampshire County Community about sexual and relationship violence, as well as working with innovative online tools to spread the CWC's education through the web. Jill is also a volunteer for the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts and a passionate advocate for the Reproductive Justice movement.

Sasha currently serves as co-director of the Center for Gender, Sexuality & Activism at BU. Last year, she won the Sarah Joanne Davis award for Activism for her leadership to bring for a sexual assault prevention and response center to BU, which opened this past Fall.

Chloe Collins is a senior at Smith College where she is studying Women & Gender and Book Studies. She is a peer sexual assault educator with On Standby, a Smith College student organization dedicated to primary prevention and sexual assault harm reduction.

Betsy Hartmann is the Director of the Population and Development Program and Professor of Development Studies at Hampshire College. A longstanding activist in the international women's health movement, she teaches, writes and speaks about the intersections of population, environment, reproductive rights and security issues. Her books include Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control.

Jade Sasser, PhD has published articles on gender, population politics, and environmental debates in international development. Her current research is focused on gender, poverty, and climate change in Africa. Professor Sasser teaches courses on women of color in the U.S., women’s bodies, health, and sexuality, and women in global communities.