Board

Alex Baptiste 

Alex is a lawyer who has worked for over ten years in public policy. Professionally, Alex has worked in the public sector with non-profit organizations like the National Partnership for Women & Families and the Hub Project. In Alex’s current capacity as the Director for Policy & Research of their abortion storyteller campaign, Alex works closely with abortion providers and those with their own stories to provide a platform for sharing experiences and meaningfully educating their audience on why access to comprehensive reproductive health care is so critical to achieving an equitable society.

 

Sarah Ferguson (she/they) 

Sarah has been a dedicated community organizer and abortion doula since her teenage years. Their primary focus is on establishing accessible and culturally relevant models of care. As the creator of @birthingtheblock and the facilitator of the All Bodies. All Reasons. All Outcomes full-spectrum abortion doula training, Sarah is committed to pushing boundaries and redefining norms. They actively present and advocate across the country, shedding light on reproductive health disparities, experiences, and traditions within Black communities. Their emphasis lies in reproductive justice, harm reduction, and effective organizing. Sarah interprets love and solidarity as actionable verbs, demanding intentional efforts to build communities across differences. A fundamental aspect of her work is to act as an accomplice, fostering solidarity and community building with fellow accomplices.

 

Kimya Forouzan, JD, MPH 

President

Kimya is a lawyer and public health professional based in Washington, DC. Kimya currently works as Policy Counsel for Compassion & Choices, an organization working on end-of-life care. Prior to her current role, Kimya worked for a number of organizations focused on reproductive rights and justice, most recently at the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. Outside of her professional work, Kimya volunteers as an abortion doula, as a text line counselor with Jane’s Due Process, and as an advocate for unaccompanied minors in immigration detention with the Young Center.

 

Karen Hsu 

Treasurer

Karen is the owner of HsuBox Consulting LLC, a DC-based consulting practice leading organizational leaders and their teams to improve accountability, integrity, and humanity. She comes to RHAP with 25 years’ experience working with businesses and Boards of all kinds, and supporting leaders of all styles. Over the course of her career, she cultivated a passion to support nonprofits to achieve their business objectives in a way that aligns with their public-facing duty to uphold the organization’s values and champion the mission. Her interdisciplinary experience across consulting, auditing, and operations in pensions and benefits helped her develop a commitment to supporting individual autonomy, agency, and accountability with candor, compassion, and curiosity. Karen is a proud graduate of Brandeis University and American University.

 

Payton Jai (they/them)

Payton Jai is a producer, intimacy coordinator, and advocate with over a decade of experience blending reproductive justice, mental health advocacy, and storytelling to create accessible healthcare education. They have directed, produced, and consulted on media that center conversations about abortion, sexual health, and consent with organizations such as Plan C, CINTIMA, Spinning Babies® Babies, Wisp, and SEICUS. Payton also volunteers as an emergency room advocate for survivors of sexual and domestic violence. As a new member of RHAP’s board, they are passionate about bridging their experiences in advocacy, creative production, and trauma-informed care to further RHAP’s mission of ensuring everyone has access to essential reproductive healthcare. Payton believes deeply in the power of compassionate, community-driven approaches to dismantling barriers to care.

 

Adina Koch (she/her)

Adina is an experienced project director, coalition builder, and trained facilitator, working for reproductive justice and healthcare access. Based in Boston, MA, she works as a non-profit management consultant, specializing in supporting organizations working in abortion and reproductive healthcare access. She started her career at an abortion fund nearly 20 years ago, and has worked in several community health centers managing sexual and reproductive health care programs. More recently, she has worked in the non-profit sector working with healthcare providers on implementing engagement strategies for abortion referrals, and with community health centers in Massachusetts on improving their comprehensive family planning services. Adina is passionate about cultivating community by building and supporting local efforts for mutual aid as access to care.

 

Amanda Levering (she/her)

Amanda is a macro-level social worker with 17 years experience of doing system-transformation work. She’s currently the Director of Complex Case Coordination for the State of Delaware’s Department of Health and Social Services, where she is focusing on creating a data-driven approach to better serve the most underserved populations in the state. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, Fordham University School of Social Work and a consultant on various research and grant projects. Prior to returning to Delaware, she launched and expanded pretrial services in Brooklyn, New York where over 9,000 individuals went home instead of going to Rikers Island. Ms. Levering previously served young people coming home from prison to Harlem, worked as a bilingual victim advocate within the Delaware Department of Justice and as a substance abuse counselor at an outpatient facility. Ms. Levering served in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua from 2009-2010 where she focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and reproductive health access for adolescents and sex workers. Ms. Levering is a survivor of intimate partner violence and credits her ability to safely leave that relationship due to being able to safely access an abortion with her primary care doctor. 

 

Anna Lowell, DO, MPH

Dr. Anna Lowell, DO, MPH is a Board-Certified family physician deeply committed to reproductive health and currently works in primary care as well as Planned Parenthood clinics throughout Florida. She chose family medicine as her career path because she can morph into a listener, observer, teacher, advocate, and ultimately healer all in a day’s work!

She graduated from the Mount Sinai Downtown Residency in Urban Family Medicine in New York City and also completed a fellowship with the Physicians for Reproductive Leadership Training Academy. She has served as Co-Leader of RHAP’s Florida Cluster, Chair of Contraceptives Access Work Group with Floridians for Reproductive Freedom, member of FAFP Government Relations Committee, speaker for RHAP, MSFC, AMSA, AAFP, FMEC and STFM presentations, and mentor for AMSA’s Reproductive Health Project. Her special areas of interest include underserved medicine, integrative medicine, HIV primary care/HIV prevention, LGBQT+ care, adolescent health, global health, academic medicine, and integrating abortion care into primary care practice.

 

Laura Miller (she/her) 

Laura began working in community healthcare justice in 2015 with community commons research and harm reduction work surrounding the AIDS/HIV outbreak in Southern Indiana, followed by several years working in health center management with Planned Parenthood in Indiana and Kentucky. She holds a Master of Public Health from Indiana University and a Graduate Certificate in Public and Non-Profit Leadership from the Ohio State University, and is passionate about supporting and advancing equity and justice in communities impacted by repressive systems. Laura is currently the Director of Operations for First Peoples Worldwide, an organization that works to increase corporate accountability to Indigenous Peoples at the intersection or business, law, and finance. 

 

billy parker (they/them) 

billy is a licensed clinical social worker serving clients in PA and NY. In their private practice, billy provides individual psychotherapy and clinical supervision to fellow queer and trans social workers. Prior to their transition into full-time private practice, billy worked in a diversity of healthcare settings, from community health practices to large hospital systems. Billy entered the healthcare field as a full-spectrum volunteer doula for the Doula Project. In their role as a doula and former abortion counselor, billy has supported hundreds of people seeking abortion services and reproductive healthcare in Philadelphia and throughout New York City. Billy is the former Coordinator for all Gender Affirming Care services at Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA. Prior to joining the team at Planned Parenthood, billy helped launch and manage Einstein Healthcare Network’s first LGBTQ+ health initiative, the PRIDE Program, which continues to serve LGBTQ+ patients across three hospital campuses and two counties. Billy also provides consultation services and training for care providers looking to better serve their LGBTQ+ patients.

Advisory Board

Talcott Camp, JD
National Abortion Federation

Joshua Freeman, MD
University of Kansas Department of Family Medicine

Robert Gillespie
Population Communication

Rebecca Hart-Holder, JD Chair
Reproductive Equity Now

Rachel K. Jones, PhD
Guttmacher Institute

Hannah S. Kully, PhD

Virna Little, PsyD

Jodi Magee

Maureen Paul, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Eric Schaff, MD
Temple University / Greater Philadelphia Action Center, Inc.

Susan Sommer, JD
Experience Justice