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Feb 05
2015 marked RHAP’s 10-year anniversary and you helped make this year one of our most successful years yet! Together, we raised over $40,000 on our end-of-year appeal. We are so grateful for your generous gifts—we could not accomplish all that we do without your support. We believe that training as many clinicians as possible in…
Sep 21
Lisa Maldonado is one of the original founders of the Reproductive Health Access Project and has served as the organization’s executive director since 2005. “Ten years ago Linda Prine, Ruth Lesnewski, and I joined forces to launch the Reproductive Health Access Project. We didn’t have an office (I worked from a small desk in the…
Aug 31
My name is Sophia Schilling, and I am a rising senior at the University of Iowa majoring in communications with a minor in nonprofit management. This summer, I was lucky enough to have been matched with the Reproductive Health Access Project through the 2015 Reproductive Rights Activists Service Corps (RRASC) summer internship program. The RRASC…
Aug 10
Kristin earned a BS in Political Science from Portland State University in 2011. She began working for the Oregon Foundation for Reproductive Health and NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon supporting their community outreach, program development, and fundraising efforts. Prior to joining RHAP she was the development associate for Project Access NOW, an Oregon nonprofit that coordinates a…
Jul 25
Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) staff is proud to welcome two new members to our team. Gabrielle (GG) deFiebre, MPH joins us as our research associate. GG earned her bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida and her master’s degree in public health from the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. GG interned…
Jun 18
This post was written by Ayesha Rehman, a junior at Macaulay Honors College at CUNY and the Reproductive Health Access Project’s research intern. Every year RHAP sponsors our interns to attend the Civil Liberties and Public Policy conference at Hampshire College. This year we asked Ayesha to document her experience at the conference and share…
May 08
Every year the Reproductive Health Access Project has the sincere pleasure of hosting young advocates of reproductive health and justice at our New York City offices. These students are the key to the future of reproductive health and we are very proud to assist them in developing the tools they need for a future in…
Dec 21
Dec 04
Name: Gabrielle deFiebre, but I go by GG. Hails from: New York, NY Why are you passionate about reproductive health? When I first started classes for my master’s of Public Health at Hunter College, I was introduced to the concept of health disparities and how access to quality care is often determined by income…
Nov 29
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Reproductive Health Access Project friend and supporter, Mary Joan Murphy, recently published an article blasting common contraception myths in Advance for Nurses. The article was written with help from RHAP’s education director Dr. Ruth Lesnewski and RHAP’s board president Barbara Kancelbaum. In the article, Mary Joan highlights the role nurses can…