Stephanie Lozano
Stephanie Lozano, MSW, CSW, is the Tribal Liaison for the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. Since joining the department in 2016, Stephanie has worked to strengthen the intergovernmental relationships between the department and the 11 sovereign tribal nations that are headquartered in Wisconsin. She provides direct consultation, technical assistance, and coordinated support services, as well as policy analysis, tribal perspective,recommendations, and strategic advisement on tribal affairs. Prior to joining DCF, Stephanie spent 10 years working for the Ho-Chunk Nation, where she progressed from an ongoing social worker to the Indian Child Welfare Program Supervisor and a Presidential appointee (Legislature confirmed) as Executive Director of Social Services. Stephanie was an integral member of the team that codified and implemented the Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare Act in 2009 and continues to serve as a trainer and subject matter expert in the field of Indian Child Welfare. Stephanie currently serves on several boards and committees including the SisterSong Board of Directors and the University of Wisconsin Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work Board of Visitors. In her spare time, Stephanie enjoys traveling, creating, and spending time with her family. She received her Bachelors of Science in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and her Masters of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work.
Elizabeth Estrada
Elizabeth Estrada serves as the New York Field and Advocacy Manager at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. Previously, she served as the Civic Engagement Manager, organizing voter engagement campaigns to raise the voices of Latinxs in Florida, Texas, and Virginia for policy change at all levels of government on issues that impact people's reproductive freedom and self determination. In Elizabeth’s current role, she engages in movement-building for Reproductive Justice; develops community leadership; builds relationships with key stakeholders, partners, and elected officials; and develops and implements campaigns throughout NYC. Elizabeth and her parents immigrated to the US from Mexico when she was 4, and she remained undocumented until age 13. She learned to organize in the South while volunteering with Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, as well as working as a Sexual and Reproductive Health “Promotora” for the Lifting Latina Voices Initiative at the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Elizabeth has had the honor of educating hundreds of Southerners on Reproductive Justice and continues to translate obver 10 years of grassroots organizing experience to the work she is currently building in The Bronx, NY..
Xaelah Jarrett
Xaelah Jarrett is a Black trans womanist whose work and interests most explicitly seek to engage notions of race, gender, sexuality, love and trauma. She holds a BA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Psychology from Columbia University. She is currently focused on cultivating spaces for youth to engage with notions of gender and sexuality more complexly, particularly within educational systems. Popular culture and animation are vehicles that interest her in engaging people in culturally relevant and age-appropriate contexts, especially young folks. Xaelah serves as the Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Peer Health Exchange, a national health education nonprofit that partners with undergraduate populations to facilitate a skills-based and equity-centered curriculum for 9th graders in under-resourced high schools. She is primarily responsible for determining barriers to sustained program participation, retention, and paraprofessional development for volunteers of color and others from historically marginalized and oppressed communities, while coaching local program teams toward achieving more sustained equitable outcomes. Additionally, she facilitates support groups for trans, non-binary, and gender expansive youth between the ages of 5-10 and 14-18 at Ackerman’s Institute for the Family’s Gender and Family Project and for adult trans women and trans feminine participants at the NYC LGBT Center.
Park Cannon
Park Cannon serves as a doula and is in her fifth term as the youngest member of the Georgia House of Representatives. She is excited to represent Midtown, Downtown, and Southwest Atlanta. At the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Representative Cannon said We need to trust black women!"" and will continue to stand up for LGBTQ+ and minority visibility in the South. An alum of the University of NC, Chapel Hill and Harvard, Park is openly queer and a founding member of the Equality Caucus, Entertainment Caucus, and Future Caucus."
BREANA LIPSCOMB
Breana Lipscomb is the Senior Advisor of Maternal Health & Rights and Acting US Human Rights Team Lead for the Center for Reproductive Rights. She has nearly 20 years of public health experience, and in her current role, uses a human rights framework to develop advocacy strategies to advance maternal health equity through state and federal policies. Breana is based in Atlanta, GA and serves as the Board of Directors Co-Chair for the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. Breana has been formally recognized by the Georgia State House of Representatives for her maternal health advocacy work and was named the inaugural Kira Johnson Advocate of the Year by March for Moms in 2020.
Cynthia Gutierrez
Cynthia Gutierrez (she/ella) is an award winning first-generation Nicaraguan Salvadoran reproductive justice organizer, full spectrum doula, cultural strategist, writer, and public speaker.Cynthia was a graduate of the 2021 Rockwood Leadership Institute Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice cohort. Cynthia‘s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Lily, Elle Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Rewire News Group, etc. She is currently the program manager for the University of California San Francisco Hub of Positive Reproductive and Sexual Health (HIVE) and Team Lily programs. Cynthia is a proud abortion storyteller with We Testify. She is on the Board of Directors for ACCESS Reproductive Justice and IneedanA. Her work can be found on her website https://www.cynthiaagutierrez.com. She has a Bachelors in Sociology from the University of CA, Santa Cruz. Cynthia is originally from San Francisco’s Excelsior District and now resides in East Oakland with her partner and son.
Katrina Maczen-Cantrell
Katrina Maczen-Cantrell Executive Director Women’s Health Specialists, California Pronouns: She/Her Katrina Cantrell is the Executive Director of Women’s Health Specialists of California, an enrolled member of the Western Shoshone Nation, Feminist, Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and alum of California Institute of Integral Studies and Rockwood Institute Fellow. Cantrell has dedicated the past 35 years to bringing reproductive education, health information and clinical services to underserved women and men in rural northern, California. Cantrell works with colleagues’ communities and allies to build constituencies that demand reproductive justice and access to health care that includes abortion. Respected as an agent of justice, Cantrell embodies a holistic vision and commitment to inclusion. Cantrell has been active at the grassroots level in working for reproductive justice; indigenous land and resource rights; abortion and LGBT rights; environmental responsibility; and economic equality. Cantrell serves as Chairperson for the Native American Health Education Resource Center, South Dakota; board member for Sistersong: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Founding board member of Northstate Women’s Health Network; former board member of the National Women’s Health Network in Washington, DC; National Network of Abortion Funds, Women’s Health Specialists.
Ali anderson
Ali Anderson is rooted in over a decade of experience in public health, birthwork, and food justice. She is the founder and Executive Director of Feed Black Futures, an organization with a mission to create a world where Black people have access to high-quality fresh food and the means and skills to produce it. As a community organizer and membership co-chair with Black Youth Project 100 NYC, Ali led direct actions and community participatory research processes for communities facing carceral violence as well as food and environmental injustices in New York City. She has been a keynote speaker on topics related to food sovereignty and food justice at Harvard School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, and Pitzer College. Formerly the Director of Capacity Building with the New York City Health Department’s Center for Health Equity, Ali created policies to bring pay equity and social support to community health workers working in food, reproductive, and economic justice. Ali is from Southern California and is the granddaughter of Jamaican immigrants. She holds a Master of Public Health from Emory University. In 2021, Ali was awarded the New Voices for Reproductive Justice Black Women Green Futures Award and in 2023 was awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship. She is on the Board of Directors of Acta Non Verba Youth Community Farm and sits on the board of directors for Black Farmers Rising California, SisterSong, and FEAST LA.