Margaret Higgins Sanger,also known as Margaret Sanger Slee,was an American birth control activist,sex educator,writer,and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control",opened the first birth control clinic in the United States,and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive coursework in the fields of international development,foreign policy,science and technology,and economics and finance through its undergraduate (AB) degrees,graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA),Master of Public Policy (MPP),and PhD degrees.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America,Inc. (PPFA),or simply Planned Parenthood,is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare,and sexual education in the United States and globally. It is a member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
Susan G. Komen is a breast cancer organization in the United States.
Cecile Richards is an American activist who served as the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund from 2006 to 2018. In 2010,Richards was elected to the Ford Foundation board of trustees. In spring 2019,Richards co-founded Supermajority,a women's political action group.
Jennifer A. Richeson is an American social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions. She is currently the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University where she heads the Social Perception and Communication Lab. Prior to her appointment to the Yale faculty,Richeson was Professor of Psychology and African-American studies at Northwestern University. In 2015,she was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. Richeson was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. Since 2021,she has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Dominic D. P. Johnson is an Alistair Buchan Professor of International Relations at St Antony's College,Oxford.
Gloria Feldt is an American author,speaker,commentator,and feminist activist who gained recognition as a social and political advocate of women's rights. In 2013,she and Amy Litzenberger founded Take the Lead,a nonprofit initiative with a goal to propel women to leadership parity by 2025. She is a former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America,directing the organization from 1996 to 2005.
Abby Johnson is an American anti-abortion activist who previously worked at Planned Parenthood as a clinic director,but resigned in October 2009. She states that she resigned after watching an abortion on ultrasound. The veracity of her account and the details and motivation for her conversion have been challenged by investigative reporters,as medical records contradict some of her claims.
Robert A. Johnson is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and regularly contributes to NewDeal 2.0 with his "FinanceSeer Column." He also formerly traded currency on Wall Street under George Soros.
Rosalind "Roz" G. Brewer is an American businesswoman and former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance,before stepping down in September 2023. Brewer is the first woman to become CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance,group president and COO of Starbucks,and CEO of Sam's Club. She currently serves as a member of the President's Export Council.
Leana Sheryle Wen is an American physician,author,professor,speaker,consultant,newspaper columnist and television commentator. She is former health commissioner for the city of Baltimore and former president of Planned Parenthood. She has written two books based on her experiences as a medical professional.
Jamilah Lemieux is an American writer,cultural critic,and editor. She rose to prominence for her blog,The Beautiful Struggler. She has worked for Ebony,Cassius Magazine,and Interactive One,part of Radio One,Inc. Lemieux currently writes a parenting column for Slate,and co-hosts an accompanying podcast,Mom &Dad Are Fighting.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Carly Fiorina was announced in a video message posted on May 4,2015. Fiorina was formerly chief executive officer of the technology company Hewlett-Packard,and was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in California in 2010.
Héctor E. Sánchez Barba is the President and CEO of Mi Familia Vota (MFV),and a prominent leader in the Latino community with a strong focus on building Latino political power and driving policy and politics at the state and national levels. As a leading voice in the fight against extremism and xenophobia in public policy,he has devoted his career to protecting democracy,empowering communities,and championing the rights of Latinos,immigrants,and vulnerable communities across the country.
Lori Elaine Lightfoot is an American politician and attorney who was the 56th mayor of Chicago from 2019 until 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Before becoming mayor,Lightfoot worked in private legal practice as a partner at Mayer Brown and held various government positions in Chicago. She served as president of the Chicago Police Board and chair of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force. In 2019,Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff election for Chicago mayor. She ran again in 2023 but failed to qualify for the runoff,becoming the city's first incumbent mayor to not be reelected since Jane Byrne in 1983.
Unplanned is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman. It is based on the disputed 2011 memoir Unplanned by anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson. The film stars Ashley Bratcher as Johnson,following her life as a clinic director for Planned Parenthood and her subsequent transition to anti-abortion activism.
Dawn Laguens is the former executive vice president and chief brand officer of Planned Parenthood and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She is vice chair of LPAC,the LGBTQ+ social justice and women's equality super PAC. She is strategic advisor at Redshift Leadership and the Vaid Group. As of 2019,she is also the expert-in-residence at IDEO. Additionally,she is a writer and filmmaker,having served as executive producer of Across the Line,a virtual reality look at the personal experience of getting access to abortion,that debuted at Sundance in 2016. She has been published in Time,New York,the Anchorage Daily News,and on Refinery29,Medium,The Daily Beast,Salon.com,the podcast Queery,and other outlets. She has also appeared on CNN,NPR,CBS,and other media.
Maryana Iskander is an Egyptian-born American social entrepreneur and lawyer. In 2022,she became the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wikimedia Foundation,succeeding Katherine Maher. Prior to her position,Iskander was the CEO of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and a former chief operating officer of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York.
Deja Foxx is a reproductive rights activist,political strategist,and blogger known for being the youngest staffer and first Influencer and Surrogate Strategist on U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign,and for her work with Planned Parenthood.
