SOCIOLOGIST

Krystale E. Littlejohn is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of the award-winning book Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (UC Press, 2021). She earned her PhD from Stanford University in 2013 and her BA from Occidental College in 2007. Her work examines race, gender, and reproduction. She has received funding for her work from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Society of Family Planning Research Fund, and the ASA Minority Fellowship program, among other funders. Her next book, Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade, co-edited with historian Rickie Solinger, highlights how people across domains are fighting to protect abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. You can learn more about her work at krystalelittlejohn.com.

HISTORIAN & AUTHOR

Ann Hibner Koblitz is a professor emerita, retired from the Women & Gender Studies Program at Arizona State University. She is the author of three books and numerous articles on various aspects of gender and science. Her third book, Sex and Herbs and Birth Control: Women and Fertility Regulation through the Ages, won the Transdisciplinary Book Award of the ASU Humanities Institute. She is also the founder/director of the Kovalevskaia Fund for women in science in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Occasional blog posts on women's reproductive health and information on her third book can be found at ahkoblitz.wordpress.com.

PHILANTHROPIST, FOUNDER & PERIOD DOULA

Hollywood stylist turned philanthropist Chelsea VonChaz is your go-to girl when you need to talk about your period. As the executive director of the #HappyPeriod charity, which provides menstrual care and health education to people with periods, Chelsea promotes the inclusion of womb care within wellness. By curating safe spaces inspired by her Afro-Indigenous roots, her mission is to help advance reproductive care and wellness through body literacy. She is also the founder of Menärchē, the newsletter for the culture’s reproductive wellness. You can learrn more about her work at chelseavonchaz.com.

INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST & AUTHOR

Jennifer Block is an independent journalist who writes frequently about health, gender, and contested areas of medicine. Her articles and commentary have appeared in The Boston Globe, Romper, The BMJ, The Cut, The New York Times, The Baffler, and many other outlets.

As a reporter with Type Investigations, Jennifer won several awards for her investigative reporting on the permanent contraceptive implant Essure, which was subsequently removed from the market. For early chapters of Everything Below the Waist, she won a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.

Her first book, Pushed, led a wave of attention to the national crisis in maternity care and is a foundational text in university curricula and birth worker training. It won a “Best Book” designation from Kirkus Reviews and was named a “Best Consumer Health Book” by Library Journal.

Jennifer began her career as an editor at the legendary Ms. magazine and contributor to The Village Voice and The Nation. She has given interviews to national media outlets and is a featured expert in Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein’s 2022 film The Business of Birth Control.

FERTILITY AWARENESS EDUCATOR

Sarah Bly is a Sexual Health Educator and a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator with over twenty years of teaching experience nationally and internationally. She originally trained and served as a homebirth midwife but has found her passion in body literacy and health education. She is the founder and facilitator of the only professionally recognized Fertility Awareness and Body Literacy teacher training program in the USA and has a thriving private practice as well. Sarah is a member of several professional organizations and is dedicated to furthering our embodiment, empowerment, sexual sovereignty and connection with the natural world. She resides in southern Oregon where she mothers, farms, dances and lives in reverence to the natural world. You can learn more about her work and connect with her at graceofthemoon.com.

DOULA & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTIVIST

Hājar Danielle is a full spectrum doula and reproductive health activist based in Broward County, Florida. Hājar is the descendant of Florida granny midwives and aims to revive her ancestors' practices in response to the black maternal health crisis. Her other focus is giving people the tools to survive the reproductive violence occurring in the U.S. today. You can connect with her and learn more about her work at yungmedusa.com and @yungmedusa on twitter.

BODY LITERACY EDUCATOR

Nicole @ Learn Body Literacy is a fertility awareness educator, urban farmer, theorist, and mixed media artist. She teaches menstrual cycle awareness through the lens of body literacy. She also hosts the Someone, Somewhere Podcast, where she relays information about history, fertility, sustainable agriculture, and their subsequent connections. She is currently writing a book about fertility awareness and what she terms “strategies for autonomous menstrual management” while working with clients on their individual menstrual needs. You can connect with her and learn more about her work at learnbodyliteracy.com.