I am proud to sit on the board of The Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts (ARFWM), one of the country’s oldest abortion funds. Since 1988, our organization has provided financial support to abortion seekers in Massachusetts and across the country.
Since 2017, I have also co-organized the Doula Association for Reproductive Loss and Abortion (DARLA), now housed within ARFWM (since 2020). We train abortion doulas as well as community members who want to support folks seeking/having abortions in their own networks. We also facilitate abortion doula support for ARFWM callers.
From 2014-2016, I sat on the board of the Green River Doula Network, where I led the redesign of a program which provided birth and postpartum doulas at no cost to eligible families across Western Massachusetts.
Before moving to Massachusetts, I organized abortion clinic escorts in Los Angeles, California. This work was featured in Lauren Rankin’s 2022 book, Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America.