Ayesha Chatterjee’s leadership at Our Bodies Ourselves has resulted in resources based on Our Bodies, Ourselves in twelve languages. She serves on the board of directors of the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund. Previously, she worked as a sexuality counselor in India and Central Asia.
Christine Cupaiuolo (christine2.com) covers women’s health and public policy for Our Bodies Ourselves and Our Bodies, Our Blog. She also writes for other publications and edits articles and books on politics, culture, gender, and digital media.
Judy Norsigian, executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves, is a cofounder of the organization and has worked on all commercial editions of this book. She has been a women’s health advocate and activist for forty years.
Amy Romano, MSN, CNM, is a nurse-midwife who has written extensively about evidencebased maternity care for books, online media, and professional journals. She has practiced full-scope midwifery in the home, birth center, and hospital settings and consulted for various maternity-related advocacy organizations.
Wendy Sanford has been a coauthor of Our Bodies, Ourselves since 1969. “What a privilege to work with women, men and genderqueers of many generations who are devoted to keeping OBOS useful. Happy fortieth, OBOS! Polly and Rory, I love you.”
June Tsang attended Brandeis University, where she became passionate about women’s health advocacy. She is grateful to Our Bodies Ourselves for following their tradition of educating young women and for granting her the opportunity to be involved in the process of this edition.
Kiki Zeldes has been part of the editorial team for the past four editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves. When not working on books, she develops content for and manages the Our Bodies Ourselves website.
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur is an occasional writer and an all-the-time activist. She compiled Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak, a seminal anthology of kick-ass women, because now, more than ever, the world needs to hear our voices.
John Abramson, M.D., MSc, a family physician, is the author of Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (overdosedamerica.com), is a lecturer in health policy at Harvard Medical School, and serves as an expert in litigation involving the pharmaceutical industry.
Rose Afriyie is a black feminist pursuing an MPP at the University of Michigan. Her policy areas of interest are gender and sexual health. She is currently writing a book about balancing economic security with passionate engagement in work and is a contributor to the website Feministing.
Elizabeth Allemann, M.D. (drallemann.com), is a family physician and acupuncturist in Missouri. She has attended births in hospitals, birth centers, and homes and believes it matters how we are born and how we give birth, and that maternity care must serve all mothers.
Paula Amato, M.D., is a reproductive endocrinologist and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.
Alison Amoroso, MEd, earned her master’s degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education and her bachelor’s at Duke. She recently authored Unwanted Hair and Hirsutism: A Book for Women published by Your Health Press. Alison is a longtime feminist activist and resides in Atlanta.
Onyekachukwu C. Iloabachie Anaedozie, MPH, CPH, is a Nigerian and New York City native who has made the decision to dedicate her career in public health to women’s health. She currently works for the Department of Public Health in Philadelphia and lives with her husband, Obiora.
Jill Arnold is an activist and the founder of the childbirth advocacy blog TheUnnecesarean.com.
Veronica Arreola (vivalafeminista.com) is a professional feminist, a writer, and a mom who writes about feminism and motherhood.
Susan Ball, M.D., MPH, is an HIV specialist at New York– Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College.
Mary Lou Ballweg founded the Endometriosis Association (endometriosisassn.org) in 1980. The international organization’s purpose is education, support, and research. She is the author of several books on the disease and many other published lay and scientific works.
Kelly Blanchard is president of Ibis Reproductive Health. Ibis’s mission is to improve women’s reproductive autonomy, choices, and health worldwide. Kelly’s research focuses on improving access to and simplifying abortion, contraception, and HIV prevention products and services.
Hanne Blank (hanneblank.com) is the author of numerous books, including Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them (Ten Speed Press) and Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury).
Susan Blank, M.D., MPH, is a medical officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, on assignment at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Chris Bobel teaches women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of The Paradox of Natural Mothering and New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation, and coeditor of Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms.
Zobeida Bonilla is an assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She works with community health programs and coalitions that address the health needs of the Latino population throughout the country.
Ellen Bruce, J.D., is director of the Gerontology Institute in the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston (geront.umb.edu). She teaches elder law and policy and has served on many nonprofit boards, including as president of the national board of the Older Women’s League.
Juaquita D. Callaway, M.D. (holisticgynecology.com), is a holistic gynecologist in the metro Atlanta area. She blends conventional and natural treatment options to provide a comprehensive medical approach to women’s health issues.
Kari Christianson is the DES Action USA program director (desaction.org) and a DES daughter. She advocates for all DES-exposed individuals on the National Cancer Institute DES Follow-up Study Steering Committee and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Public Interest Partners.
Robyn Churchill, CNM, MSN (mamah.org), has been a midwife in greater Boston for more than ten years. She is the director of midwifery at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has two teenagers and is an avid marathoner and rower in her spare time.
Lisa Codispoti is senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center (nwlc.org) with its Health and Reproductive Rights Team, where she helps lead the center’s work on women and health reform, with a particular focus on ensuring low-income women’s access to comprehensive health care.
Pat Cody was a pioneer in women’s health. She founded DES Action, which brought mothers and the children affected together with doctors and researchers to make sure the effects of the drug were understood, and the children informed and cared for.
Barbara Collura has served as executive director of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association since 2007. RESOLVE (resolve.org) is a nationwide advocacy and support organization for women and men diagnosed with infertility.
Katsi Cook (indianyouth.org) is an elder Mohawk midwife, a founding member of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives of the Canadian Association of Midwives, and founding Aboriginal midwife of the Six Nations Birthing Centre at Six Nations, Ontario.
Heather Corinna is the director of Scarleteen (scarle teen.com) and CONNECT, and the author of S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College, and could not be more honored to have been part of this book.
Mary Costanza, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is a nationally known expert in breast cancer. After treating the disease for many years, she has focused her attention more recently on issues in screening and cancer control research.
Carol Dansereau is an environmental organizer/attorney who works with farmworkers in Washington State on pesticide issues. Before joining the staff of the Farm Worker Pesticide Project, she was director of the Washington Toxics Coalition and worked for other nonprofits.
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is associate executive director, Center for Genetics and Society (geneticsandsociety.org), a public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of human biotechnologies, from a perspective grounded in social justice, human rights, and health equity.
Elizabeth Davis, BA, CPM (elizabethdavis.com), has been a midwife for more than thirty years and is cofounder of National Midwifery Institute, Inc. She is coauthor of Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth Experience and the classic midwifery text Heart & Hands.
Dave deBronkart (epatientdave.com) almost died of Stage IV kidney cancer in 2007. He was saved by great medicine, started blogging and advocating for the e-patient movement (empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled) on epatients.net, and is patient cochair of the Society for Participatory Medicine.
Bella DePaulo, PhD (belladepaulo.com), earned her PhD at Harvard and is currently at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After and the Living Single blog at the Psychology Today website.
Joan Ditzion is a founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, coauthor of all editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and a geriatric social worker and educator. She appreciates the love and support of her husband, two sons and daughters-in-law, and new grandson.
Petra Doan, Ph.D., MRP (coss.fsu.edu/durp/people/petra-l-doan), teaches urban and regional planning for developing countries at Florida State University. As a transsexual woman, she also writes about the tyranny of gendered planning and its social and economic impact on sexual and gender minorities.
Janet Dollin, MDCM, FCFP, is a family physician and an associate professor at the University of Ottawa. She practices medicine, teaches, and mentors with a focus on women’s health and leadership. She is a daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, and friend and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Leilani Doty, PhD, director, University of Florida Cognitive and Memory Disorder Clinics, works on elder/women’s health, dementias, brain health, academic leadership, and communication. Google her name and topic words for articles; regarding brain health/exercise and dementia, try alzonline.net.
Jen Dozer is a writer, a registered nurse, and a mother after experiencing infertility.
Carol Ratliff Drury is the education program coordinator and associate director of the Endometriosis Association (endometriosisassn.org), a self-help organization founded in 1980 with international headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has a particular interest in conditions that often co-occur with endometriosis, especially candidiasis.
Kezia L. Ellison is a Pittsburgh native who has a master’s in women’s health from Suffolk University and a bachelor’s in human biology from Brown University. She is the founder and president of Educating Teens about HIV/AIDS, Inc.
Barbara Fildes, MS, CNM, FACNM, is a certified nurse-midwife with more than thirty years of experience in a range of clinical settings. She is on the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School and is currently the manager of Regional Obstetrics Improvement, New England Alliance for Health at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Catherine Finn, MSW, LCSW, is a health and medical writer. As a Senior Researcher at the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision in Boston, Cathy translates medical research to support the development of Shared Decision Making© programs in mental health, breast cancer, and palliative care.
Rebecca Firestone, ScD, MPH, is a researcher with Population Services International (psi.org), committed to policy advocacy and program evaluation in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Anna Forbes, MSS, an advocate, organizer, and writer, has worked in HIV/AIDS since 1985 and on women’s health and rights since 1977. Now an independent consultant with an international client list, she has published numerous articles and eight childrens’ books on HIV.
Stacey May Fowles (staceymayfowles.com) is an essayist, a journalist, and the author of two novels. Her writing has appeared in various magazines and journals. Most recently, she coedited the anthology She’s Shameless: Women Write About Growing Up, Rocking Out and Fighting Back.
Ruth Fretts, M.D., is a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist who has been studying stillbirth for twenty-five years, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and former chairperson of the Scientific Committee for the International Stillbirth Alliance. She lives with her husband and three children in Brookline.
Marlene Gerber Fried, PhD, is a longtime activist; founding president and board member, National Network of Abortion Funds; 2010–2011 acting president, professor, and faculty director, Civil Liberties and Public Program (CLPP), Hampshire College; and coauthor, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice.
Jaclyn Friedman (jaclynfriedman.com) is the director of Women, Action & the Media and a charter member of CounterQuo, a coalition challenging how we respond to sexual violence. Her anthology Yes Means Yes! was one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009.
Hilary Gerber is a medical student at Nova Southeastern University planning to be an obstetrician-gynecologist, a predoctoral research fellow who studied labor and delivery interventions, a former midwifery student, and a mother.
Cait Glasson (CaitieCat) is twice an immigrant: once coming home to Canada from the United Kingdom, once coming home to women’s country. Both experiences have been happy, exciting, terrifying, and worth every moment. She blogs feministically at Shakesville (shakespearessister.blogspot.com).
Henci Goer (hencigoer.com) specializes in evidence-based maternity care. She is the author of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth and Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities. She is a resident expert on Lamaze International’s website, where she moderates the “Ask Henci” forum.
Cynthia Gómez, PhD, is director of the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University (healthequity.sfsu.edu), linking science and practice in the pursuit of health equity for all. She is a leading HIV prevention scientist and formerly codirected the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.
Arielle Greenberg (ariellegreenberg.net) is the author of two books of poetry and coeditor of several poetry anthologies. Her latest book is Home/Birth: A Poemic, written with Rachel Zucker. She is a birth activist and associate professor at Columbia College Chicago.
Alan Greene, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, author of Raising Baby Green and Feeding Baby Green, founder and CEO of DrGreene.com, and founding president of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow Dr. Greene on Facebook and Twitter.
Marjorie Greenfield, M.D. (marjoriegreenfield.com), is a professor of ob-gyn at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and author of The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book. She dates her interest in women’s health to the original 1973 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Thanks, BWHBC!
Margaret Morganroth Gullette, PhD (brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/profiles/Gullette.html), is the author of Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America and a scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. Her previous books include Aged by Culture and Declining to Decline.
Polly F. Harrison, PhD, an anthropologist, founded and directed the Alliance for Microbicide Development from 1998 through 2010. She previously led the Institute of Medicine’s global health programs and worked in health research and policy analysis in Latin America. She is now senior adviser to AVAC.
Ted Heck, MCJ, works in HIV prevention at the Virginia Department of Health. Volunteer activities include antiviolence and advocacy work in LGBQ and especially T communities of Virginia. He lives as an out trans man with his partner and cats in Richmond.
Steph Herold is a reproductive justice activist who has worked in direct-service abortion care and reproductive health advocacy. She founded the website I Am Dr. Tiller and the blog Abortion Gang. She tweets from the handle @IAmDrTiller and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Katharine (Trina) Hikel, M.D., was peer-trained in women’s health at the Berkeley, California, Women’s Health Collective and in conventional medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She lives in Vermont with her family and works as an activist in maternity care reform.
Judi Hirschfield-Bartek, RN, MS, OCN, has practiced as a clinical nurse specialist for more than thirty years and currently works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In 2010 she received the Silent Spring Institute’s Rachel Carson Award for her breast cancer activism.
Christine Hitchcock, PhD, is research associate at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR; cemcor.ubc.ca) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. She studies menstruation and progesterone therapy for perimenopausal and menopausal hot flushes and night sweats.
Anita P. Hoffer, PhD, EdD, was formerly an associate professor (Harvard Medical School) and business specialist in women’s health (Johnson & Johnson). Currently she educates women and their health care providers about sexuality throughout the life cycle, leads workshops, and does sex coaching.
Frances Howell is a DES daughter and executive director of DES Action USA (desaction.org), the national nonprofit organization for those exposed to the antimiscarriage drug diethylstilbestrol.
Jin In is Eastern born, Western bred with a global vision of empowering the world’s poorest girls as a powerful lever to make our world better. She is the founding director and president of For Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL.org).
Deborah Issokson, PsyD (reproheart.com), is a psychologist who specializes in perinatal mental health. She provides psychotherapy, training, supervision, and consultation to health care and mental health professionals. She maintains a private practice, Counseling for Reproductive Health & Healing, in Wellesley and Pembroke.
Jodi L. Jacobson is a longtime leader in the health and development community and an advocate with extensive experience in public health, gender equity, human rights, environment, and demographic issues. She is currently editor in chief of RH Reality Check (rhrealitycheck.org).
Lisa Jervis is the founding editor and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and she is the author of Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating (cook-food.org).
Carole Joffe is a professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UC San Francisco (ansirh.org). She is the author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars and Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade.
Laura Kaplan is the author of The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service, a former member of Jane, a board member of the National Women’s Health Network, and a lifelong women’s health advocate.
Mara Kardas-Nelson is a freelance journalist focusing on health and the environment. She is the assistant editor of Equal Treatment, the magazine of the Treatment Action Campaign, and has been published in the United States, Canada, and South Africa.
Martha Ellen Katz, M.D., has practiced medicine with a focus on women’s health for thirty years. She works at the Harvard University Health Services, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and teaches at the Harvard Medical School.
Jean Kilbourne (jeankilbourne.com), creator of the award-winning Killing Us Softly films and author of Can’t Buy My Love, is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising.
Tekoa King, CNM, MPH, is a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health at UC San Francisco and a member of the faculty obstetrics clinical practice. She is also a deputy editor for the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health.
Sheryl Kingsberg, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and is the chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Case Medical Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland.
Cara Kulwicki (thecurvature.com) is a feminist writer whose work centers on sexual assault and other forms of gender-based violence. She blogs at both the Curvature and Feministe.
Jacqueline Lapidus, MTS (jacquelinelapiduswords.net), is an editorial consultant experienced in the fields of health care, business, and travel and is also a poet, translator, and essayist. She has taught writing skills for medical decision making and women’s health advocacy at Harvard and Suffolk.
Sylvia Law is a professor at New York University School of Law, and a scholar and activist on issues of health care and reproductive freedom. A founding board member of the Center for Reproductive Rights, she was a lawyer on many reproductive freedom cases.
Linda Layne, PhD (rpi.edu/~laynel), is the mother of two fine sons. Her work includes Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America, the TV series Motherhood Lost: Conversations, collections on motherhood and consumption, and Feminist Technology. She is now studying single mothers by choice.
Margaret Lazarus (cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org) is an Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker, author, women’s rights and social justice activist, and university lecturer.
Mary Ann Leeper is a senior strategic adviser for Female Health Company, a leader in the development of pharmaceuticals and products that address global women’s health issues. She is an authority on international public health issues.
Esther Morris Leidolf is a medical sociologist with a background in public health data management. She founded the MRKH Organization (mrkh.org) in 2000 and served as board secretary for the Intersex Society of North America. Her MRKH articles have been published internationally.
Judith Lennett is the founder and executive director of Northnode, Inc. (northnode.org), a nonprofit agency that works to secure the safety and well-being of frail elders, people with disabilities, and adults and children affected by intimate partner violence.
Mitch Levine, M.D., is a gynecologist committed to providing patients with a less invasive approach to women’s health care, especially by avoiding unnecessary surgeries, including hysterectomies. He has been in practice at Women Care, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1981.
Hope Lewis (northeastern.edu/law/academics/faculty/directory/lewis.html), professor of law, Northeastern University School of Law, has been an advocate for women’s human rights for more than twenty years. She coauthored Human Rights and the Global Marketplace.
Elizabeth Sarah Lindsey is committed to equality, fighting poverty, and developing creative urban development solutions. She holds a master’s in public affairs and urban planning from Princeton University. Elizabeth lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Jonathan Rothwell.
Elaine Lissner is founder of the Male Contraception Information Project and, since 2005, director of Parsemus Foundation (parsemusfoundation.org), which focuses on contraceptive research, animal sterilization, and the impact of hormones on health.
Alice LoCicero, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with a long-standing interest in conventional and alternative approaches to women’s health. She has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Maurizio Macaluso, MD, Dr PH, is an epidemiologist and is professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He was chief of the Women’s Health and Fertility Branch at the CDC, where he led surveillance and research on infertility and assisted reproduction.
Alyson Martin is a freelance journalist living in New York City.
Courtney Martin (courtneyemartin.com) is the author of Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists, among other critically acclaimed books, an editor at Feministing, and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect.
Ginny Mazur, MA, LMHC, ATR, has served as community partnership director and in other jobs at Goddard House Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center and Goddard House in Brookline Assisted Living (goddardhouse.org) for the past fifteen years.
Marianne McPherson, PhD, MS, is a mother and a public health researcher with a passion for young women’s reproductive health, skiing, and tea. She’s worked and studied at NICHQ, Our Bodies Ourselves, Ibis Reproductive Health, Harvard, and the Heller School.
Elise Miller, MEd, is the director of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (healthandenvironment.org), an international partnership strengthening the scientific and public dialogue on environmental contributors to disease and disability and fostering initiatives to address these concerns.
Irene Monroe (irenemonroe.com) is a Huffington Post blogger and a queer religion columnist. A native of Brooklyn, Monroe is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary, and served as a pastor before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a Ford Fellow.
Heidi Moore is a writer and editor in Chicago who focuses on culture, health, and environmental issues. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago, and the Chicago guidebook, among other publications.
Cathleen E. Morrow, M.D., is associate professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Her clinical focus has been in women’s health and obstetrics-gynecology throughout her career; she currently practices and teaches broad spectrum family medicine.
Christine Morton, PhD, is a medical sociologist whose research focuses on maternity care advocacy by doulas, childbirth educators, and, more recently, obstetric clinicians. She is the founder of ReproNetwork.org and is currently with California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.
Shree Mulay (med.mun.ca/medicine/faculty/mulay,-shree.aspx) is the associate dean and professor in the Community Health and Humanities Division at Memorial University. She has worked for decades on issues related to unsafe contraceptives, assisted human reproduction, and reproductive tourism.
Claire Mysko (clairemysko.com) is a body image expert and the author of You’re Amazing!—a self-esteem handbook for girls—and coauthor of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby.
Elizabeth H. Naumburg, M.D., is currently an associate dean for advising and professor of family medicine at the University of Rochester. Her career has focused on women’s health and the issues of gender and race in health care and medical education.
Lin Nelson teaches environment and community studies at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. She works with organizations dealing with environment, workplace, women’s lives, and reproductive rights. She’s doing community-based research on how mining and metal smelting affect public health.
Amie Newman is a longtime womens’ health advocate who has directed communications for a feminist health center, has served as submissions editor for Our Truths, Nuestras Verdades, and is currently managing editor for the award-winning reproductive health news publication RH Reality Check (rhrealitycheck.org).
Deanna Nobleza, M.D., is dual board certified in internal medicine and psychiatry and specializes in college mental health. Having previously worked at Princeton University, Dr. Nobleza is currently the director of student counseling at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Craig Norberg-Bohm cofounded in 1978 RAVEN (Rape and Violence End Now) in St. Louis, Missouri. Craig operates Massachusetts White Ribbon Day (janedoe.org/white ribbonday), a men’s campaign of Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.
Gina Ogden, PhD LMFT (ginaogden.com), is a sex therapist and workshop leader. She conducted a nationwide survey on sexuality and spirituality. Her latest books are Women Who Love Sex, The Heart and Soul of Sex, and The Return of Desire.
Chukwuma Onyeije, M.D. (chukwumaonyeije.com), is a board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist and clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Morehouse School of Medicine. His interests are technology, women’s health, and patient empowerment through social media and participatory medicine.
Leslye Orloff is vice president and director of Legal Momentum’s Immigrant Women Program and a cofounder and cochair of the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women. She has written training curricula, manuals, and story collections bringing immigrant women’s voices to national policy makers.
Margaret Owusu is an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is studying health and societies with a concentration in public health. After Penn, she will pursue a career in public health, focusing primarily on adolescent health.
Ruth Palombo, PhD, assistant secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, designs programs that foster empowerment, independence, and well-being for older adults. She is a national leader in nutrition, aging, health promotion, chronic disease prevention, and end-of-life issues.
William Parker, M.D., is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and in private practice in Santa Monica, California. He is the author of the women’s health care book A Gynecologist’s Second Opinion.
Debra Pascali-Bonaro, LCCE, CD (DONA), is the director of the documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret (orgasmicbirth.com) and coauthor of Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth Experience. Debra is chairperson of the International Mother-Baby Childbirth Initiative.
Su Penn (tapeflags.blogspot.com) was very happy to be asked to help with this edition of OBOS.
Miriam Zoila Pérez (miriamzperez.com) is a writer, blogger, and reproductive justice activist. She is an editor at Feministing and founder of Radical Doula. Pérez was presented with a 2010 Barbara Seaman Award for Activism in Women’s Health.
Lisa Perriera, M.D., MPH, is an obstetrician-gynecologist who specializes in family planning. Her main areas of interest are the prevention of unintended pregnancy and contraceptive management of women with bleeding disorders and complicated medical conditions.
Elizabeth Pimentel, ND, trained as a naturopathic physician and midwife. She is committed to empowering women to take charge of their bodies and their health. She currently serves as associate dean of academics at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine.
Yvonne Piper, MLIS, has worked in health and sex education since 1998. She attends UCSF School of Nursing and volunteers at San Francisco Sex Information and Women’s Community Clinic. In addition to writing, she enjoys scuba diving, running, biking, reading, and gluten-free food.
Lauren Plante, M.D., MPH, is the director of maternal-fetal medicine at an academic medical center in Philadelphia, which probably would not like her to name it. She is board-certified in anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ob-gyn, and maternal-fetal medicine and still supports birth choices.
Diana Aquino Price is a fierce advocate for and scholar of feminist issues. She earned her BA from Barnard College in 2006 and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Asian-American studies at University of California, Los Angeles.
Jerilynn Prior is a professor of endocrinology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and scientific director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR; cemcor.ubc.ca). Her research has shown the importance of progesterone to women’s health and that perimenopause is hormonally distinct from menopause.
Jenni Prokopy is founder and editrix of ChronicBabe.com, a resource for young women with chronic illness. An award-winning writer, speaker, and health expert, she shares her personal experience and rallies the expertise of others to help women live beyond illness.
Holly Ramsey-Klawsnik, PhD, Klawsnik & Klawsnik Associates, Canton, Massachusetts, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed certified social worker, and researcher. Her research, clinical practice, teaching, and publications have focused on interpersonal violence, mental health issues, and self-care.
Nushin Rashidian is a freelance journalist living in New York City.
Nancy Redd (nancyredd.com) is a New York Times best-selling author of Body Drama and Diet Drama and a Harvard women’s studies graduate. She is on a worldwide speaking tour designed to help all women love our bodies inside and out!
Jessica Haxton Retrum, PhD, LCSW, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Health Systems and Service Research, CU Denver. She has eight years of clinical experience in health related social work and her doctoral research was related to social work in the field of gerontology.
Marcie Richardson, M.D., is an obstetrician-gynecologist who believes the only way that women can really be empowered is to understand and take charge of their bodies. To this end, she is privileged to have worked on multiple editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Gary Richwald, M.D., MPH, is a communicable disease expert with training in internal medicine, epidemiology, and women’s health. He teaches at UCLA and USC and is the medical adviser of the Los Angeles and Orange County HSV and HPV support groups.
Karin Ringheim, PhD, MPH, is an independent consultant in global health. She is a past adviser for the Population Reference Bureau and a past adviser for USAID and the World Health Organization. Publications include a book on homelessness and numerous articles on reproductive health and gender.
Susan Roll, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching focus on urban poverty, community practice, and social welfare policy.
Loretta J. Ross is a cofounder and the national coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (sistersong.net). She has a thirty-five-year-plus history in the feminist movement, from antirape organizing to reproductive justice activism.
Carol Sakala is director of programs at Childbirth Connection (childbirthconnection.org), a national not-for-profit organization that uses research, education, advocacy, and policy to improve the quality of maternity care and ensure that it meets the needs and interests of women, newborns, and families.
Gordon Schiff is a practicing internist, associate director of Brigham Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard. He worked for more than three decades at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, where he directed the General Medicine Clinic.
Susan Sered, PhD, author of Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity and Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women, is on the faculty of Suffolk University. Her current research focuses on life challenges of criminalized women.
Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD, MPH, is codirector of the Center for Policy Analysis (centerforpolicyanalysis.org). The center sponsors the EQUAL Health Network, which campaigns for equitable, quality, universal, affordable health reform; and the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), which explores the links between international trade agreements, vital human services, and health.
Grace Shih, M.D., MAS, is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. When she’s not seeing patients, you can find her cooking, hiking, or salsa dancing.
Jocelyn Sims is a Chicago area writer and editor. As an Asian-American woman, she has a particular interest in how Asian women are portrayed in television and film and researched the topic for her master’s culminating project.
Norman Spack, M.D., is a pediatric endocrinologist and cofounder of Gender Management (GeMS) Service at Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, which treats transgender youth and children with disorders of sex development (DSD).
Kimberly Springer (kimberlyspringer.com) is associate professor of women’s studies specializing in mass media, social movements, and digital culture. Her books include Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980 and Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women’s Activism.
Elizabeth Steiner, M.D., is a physician who specializes in family medicine: whole person, whole family, and whole community health. She teaches and does research to improve early detection of breast cancer.
Heather Stephenson was the managing editor of the 2005 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, editor of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause, and executive editor of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth. She is the publisher at the Appalachian Mountain Club.
Evelina Sterling, PhD, MPH, CHES, is a reproductive health researcher and educator as well as the author of several consumer health books focusing on women’s health.
Elizabeth Stewart, M.D. (vbook.com), is the Director of the Vulvovaginal Service at Vanguard Medical Associates, Atrius Health, Boston. She has been caring for women with vulvovaginal problems and vulvodynia for over twenty years.
Kirsten Thompson, MPH (kirstenthompson.com), conducts reproductive health research and uses new media for public education at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.
Trisha Torrey is Every Patient’s Advocate, an expert in patient empowerment and advocacy, and author of You Bet Your Life! The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes. Learn more about Trisha’s work and expertise at everypatientsadvocate.com and on Twitter at @TrishaTorrey.
Jeane Ungerleider, LICSW, BCD, is Director of Counseling Services for Boston IVF, and cochairs the Ethics Committee at Boston IVF. She is a clinical social worker with particular expertise in women’s health. She received her master’s degree from Simmons College of Social Work.
Annie Urban is a social, political, and consumer advocate on issues of importance to parents, women, and children. She blogs regularly about the art and science of parenting at phdinparenting.com and can be found on Twitter at @phdinparenting.
Trudy Van Houton, PhD, is the director of the Clinical Applications of Anatomy course and codirector of the Human Body course at Harvard Medical School.
Pamela Vireday, BA, CCE, is a childbirth educator, size acceptance activist, and mother of four. She is the author of the website plus-size-pregnancy.org and the blog Well-Rounded Mama (wellroundedmama.blogspot.com).
Rachel Walden, MLIS, is a librarian at an academic medical center, where she connects people with medical resources and evidence. She blogs about women’s health topics for Our Bodies, Our Blog (ourbodiesourblog.org) and at womenshealthnews.wordpress.com.
Robin Wallace, M.D., is a family doctor in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with underserved and underinsured populations, with an emphasis on preventive and reproductive health care. Her contributions on family planning can also be found on Sex Really (sexreally.com).
Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD (hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/marc-weisskopf), is assistant professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He studies environmental influences on neurological disorders, plays hockey, and spends time with his wife, Cindy, and children Noah, Mira, and Micah.
Rose Weitz, PhD, is a professor at Arizona State University, the author or editor of numerous works on women’s health and bodies, including the books Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair Tells Us About Women’s Lives and The Politics of Women’s Bodies.
Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA, is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences and director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health (ansirh.org), both at the University of California, San Francisco.
Toni Weschler, MPH, is the author of the groundbreaking bestseller Taking Charge of Your Fertility (tcoyf.com) and a book on reproductive health for teens entitled Cycle Savvy. She is an internationally respected women’s health educator with a master’s degree in public health.
Carolyn Westhoff is a gynecologist and epidemiologist at Columbia University. She focuses her clinical practice and research on women’s preventive services, contraception, and abortion.
Cosette Marie Wheeler, PhD, is a Regent’s Professor of Pathology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center. She currently directs one of the nation’s five NIH-funded cooperative research centers focused on sexually transmitted infections, the UNM Interdisciplinary HPV Prevention Center.
Sally Whelan is a cofounder of Our Bodies Ourselves. Sally has for the last ten years managed the organization’s Global Initiative, where her leadership has resulted in the publication and in-country use of seventeen cultural adaptations of Our Bodies, Ourselves around the world.
Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN, is professor emerita at Rutgers University and a certified sexuality educator, counselor, and researcher. She has coauthored seven books including the international best-seller The G Spot and Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality.
Judy Anne Williams, LICSW, is a clinical social worker, a Quaker, a youth worker, and a bisexual activist. Her work seeks to help us bring together our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits into an integrated and blessed wholeness.
Jamia Wilson (jamiawilson.com) is vice president of programs at the Women’s Media Center in New York. She serves on the leadership committee and cochairs the communications working group for SPARK Summit: Challenging the Sexualization of Girls.
Beverly Winikoff, M.D., MPH, is president of Gynuity Health Projects (gynuity.org) and a professor at Columbia University. At the Population Council, she developed the Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health. She graduated from Harvard University and earned her MD from New York University and MPH from Harvard.
Claire Winstone, PhD (speaking4baby.wordpress.com), is an infant mental health therapist treating early traumas and a prenatal/birth psychology educator who loves sharing with those who are passionate about mothers and babies her understanding of how birth and the prenatal period shape who we are.
Karen Anne Wolf, PhD, RN, NP, a nurse-practitioner and educator, has been an advocate for single-payer health care systems and care for underserved populations. She has contributed to publications and film projects on health care and writes for the website Nurse Together (nurse together.com).
Susan Wood, PhD, is associate professor of health policy and director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Previously she was the assistant commissioner for women’s health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration until 2005, when she resigned on principle owing to the continuing delays of approval of over-the-counter emergency contraception by the FDA.
Fred Wyand is a sexual health educator and the editor of HPV News, published by the American Social Health Association (ASHA: ashastd.org). He is also director of ASHA’s national resource centers for HPV and herpes.
Susan Wysocki, WHNP-BC, FAANP, is the president and CEO of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH: npwh.org). She is a woman’s health nurse-practitioner and a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and opinion leader in the field of women’s health.
Susan Yanow, MSW, was the founding executive director of the Abortion Access Project. She currently consults for national and international organizations that support abortion as a fundamental human right and work to expand all women’s access to abortion.
Courtney Young (thethirtymilewoman.wordpress.com) is a Manhattan-based popular culture writer. She has written for publications such as the Nation, the Huffington Post, and the Daily Beast. She is currently a staff writer for Campus Progress.
Diony Young has been editor of Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care since 1990. She authored the award-winning Changing Childbirth: Family Birth in the Hospital and many other publications. For more than thirty years she has advocated on numerous national and state maternal health advisory groups.
Meg Young is an undergraduate at Tufts University, where she hopes to study absolutely everything. During her gap year between high school and college she worked as an intern at Our Bodies Ourselves. She hails originally from Cornwall, Vermont.
Kay Zakariasen authored and ran an online patient survey (cystitispatientsurvey.com) with 1,800 respondents. She is also coauthor of an article in the journal Urology and coauthor of an article for the National Women’s Health Network.
Deanna Zandt (deannazandt.com) is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. She is a consultant to key progressive media organizations and is a research fellow at the Center for Social Media at American University.
Miriam Zoll (miriamzoll.net) is a writer and communications strategist specializing in health and gender issues and the founding coproducer of the Ms. Foundation’s Take Our Daughters to Work program. Her clients include UN agencies, USAID, and the Earth Institute, among others.
Diana Zuckerman, PhD, is president of the National Research Center for Women & Families (center4research.org), a nonprofit health organization. She previously worked in the U.S. Congress and at Vassar, Yale, and Harvard, has written five books, and is frequently quoted in national media.
Janna Zwerner, M.R.C., CRC, has been employed in the health and disability field for more than thirty years. She is currently the COO of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors. She is particularly interested in sexuality and women with disabilities.