2009 RRASC Internship Reports

The summer was jam-packed with exciting tales from RRASCs who joined staff at reproductive rights and social justice organizations all over the country.  In ten short weeks, they did everything from launching their own research projects to designing their own workshops: this summer, RRASCs attended national conferences, saw babies being born, supported patients through abortions, documented human rights abuses in immigrant communities across the country, made documentary films, visited activists incarcerated in California women's prisons, and met President Barack Obama.

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Reports from our 2009 RRASCs (All attachments are in .pdf format)

• Safia Albaiti: National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Martina Bottinelli: SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
• Diana Castillo: COLAGE
• Elyse Chastain: Safe Passage
• Leticia Contreras: National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• Kathryn Crisona: Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
• Zongqi "Ellen" Dai: Class Action
• Shanel George: SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
• Mia Giardina: Justice Now
• Rachel Hamalainen: New York Civil Liberties Union, Teen Health Initiative
• Corina Leu: LUZ Reproductive Justice Think Tank
• Monika Martinez: Project South, Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide
• Luz Maurillo: CAIR Project
• Lydia Mills: Choice USA
• Symone New: Pro-Choice Public Education Project
• Scarlett Phan-Weston: NYU School of Medicine
• Charlie Rose: The Care Center
• Emily Ryan: MergerWatch, Raising Women's Voices
• Leah Sakala: National Advocates for Pregnant Women
• Unika Shrestha: Center for Reproductive Rights
• Stefana Soitos: National Network of Abortion Funds
• Rahel Teka: Women With A Vision
• Laura Turyatemba: Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive
• Jaymie Zapata: Health Initiatives for Youth
• Lucy Zhou: National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum