About my work
Expanding the world of abortion access
After 15 years of working in the nonprofit industry, in 2020, I started working with fellow abortion access organizers and leaders to create what became Apiary for Practical Support, the national hub for organizations that help people with the logistics they need to access abortion care. At the beginning of 2025, I decided to step away for the organization to grow into its next phase.
I love identifying gaps in the abortion care system and creating ways to fill them. That includes not only assisting in the launch of new projects but also ensuring that the right voices are in the room to create expansive, collaborative projects that fill the needs of many, not one.
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Some of My favorite
Projects
Apiary for Practical Support
In late 2019, I started working with the former Executive Director of the Brigid Alliance to create a space for organization providing logistical and travel support to abortion seekers. A few months later we were joined by the Executive Director of the Midwest Access Coalition and began planning. In 2021 I was joined by a co-lead and we received our first funding by late that year. By the end of 2023, Apiary was a seven person team with a $1.3m budget
Ta Coalition
One of my favorite projects at Apiary was our Technical Assistance Coalition, a monthly call of over a dozen contributors sharing strategies and questions. We prioritized transparency, confidentiality, and active collaboration.
T1International
Over the course of 14 months, I worked with the team at T1International to build out their US operations. We created the operations, HR and compliance systems needed, and hired and onboarded a team of six.
Abortion Mobilization Project
In 2024, the team at Apiary began collaborating with Shout Your Abortion, Plan C Pills and ineedana.com to create a centralized volunteer mobilization site that can be a one-stop-shop for opportunities and educational tools across the movement.
The Brigid Alliance
Shortly after it’s launch, I worked with the Brigid Alliance team to create operations and programmatic systems. Together we created their employee handbook, expanded and refined their program manual that allowed direct service staff to more effectively do their job, and created data management systems for a quickly growing client base.
S.H.A.R.E Database
In March 2020, the pandemic caused mass chaos in the abortion access world, with clinics and support services opening and closing and shifting on a daily, if not hourly basis. In collaboration with folks from the Midwest Access Coalition, Digital Defense Fund, and Patient Forward we launched a short-term database that tracked the current status of all clinic and support services so that community members could get real-time information for their clients.
Testimonials
“I’ve been really impressed by how much [you hold] and how organized y’all are and how you show up and move in the movement. The spaces you have created are so generative and wholesome.”
“Your ability to articulate and make me (and us) feel good is one of the millions of things I love and appreciate about you. I will hold everything you’ve given to me and to the org very close and revisit it when I need a pick-me-up. You’ve picked me up many times in the perfect way that both said ‘I get it, it sucks.’ and ‘You’re doing your best, now come on let’s keep doing that.’
You brought us here and I’ll never be able to thank you for that.”