The fall meeting of the New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) was held October 14-15, 2006, at the LGBT Community Center in New York City. Over 40 reproductive rights & social justice activists met over the weekend and attended the following panels:
- Hyde Amendment: 30 Years is Enough!
- Sex Workers Training
- Art Therapy/Activism with the World AIDS Day Quilt
- Leaving Choir Practice: Organizing Outside your Comfort Zone
- Engaging Youth & Adults as Partners
Thank you to the LGBT Community Center in NYC for hosting us!
Fall 2006 NLNI Meeting Participants & Speakers:
- Maggie Abrego, Planned Parenthood of New York City
- Wyndi Anderson, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
- Jessica Barclay-Strobel, Third Wave Foundation
- Vivian F. Barrett, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
- Sienna Baskin, Urban Justice Center Sex Worker Project
- Myra Batchelder, New York Abortion Access Fund
- Michelle Bercovici, Law Students for Choice
- Alyssa Best, Center for Progressive Leadership
- Nakeisa Brown, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
- Kathryn R. Burton, Abortion Access Project
- Cynthia Chandler, Justice Now
- Tamarra Coleman-Hill, African American Women Evolving, Inc.
- Sarah Covert, Ms. Foundation
- Melissa Crawley, Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
- Amy Crysel, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program
- Matthew Davis Fox, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
- Kate DeMayo, Ipas
- Grayson Dempsey, Backline
- Eshanda Fennell, Pro-Choice Public Education Project
- Kristen Freeland, Urban Justice Center Sex Worker Project
- Liza Fuentes, National Network of Abortion Funds
- Marlene Gerber Fried, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program
- Claudia Gómez, Health Initiatives for Youth
- Emily P. Goodstein, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
- Shailey Gupta-Brietzke, Law Students for Choice
- Christy Hall, The Birth Attendants
- Dia Hodnett, The Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute
- Christi H. Ketchum, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
- Joy Lawson, Choice USA
- Constance "Boots" Long, Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS)
- Sunny Maguire, Girl Scouts USA
- Mia Mingus, Georgians for Choice
- Amy Oliver, Population & Development Program
- Miriam Zoila Pérez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
- Janel Quarless, Feminist Majority Foundation
- Johanna Rincón, Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program
- Bipasana Sakya, National Network of Abortion Funds
- Elizabeth Saracco, Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS)
- Mia K. Sullivan, Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program
- Christina Tenuta, NARAL Pro-Choice New York
- Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, Pro-Choice Public Education Project
- Adaku Utah, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
- Tré Vasquez, Health Initiatives for Youth
- Alisa Wellek, The LGBT Community Center
- Brenda Williams, Aniz, Inc.
