About

For more than a decade, I’ve worked had the pleasure of working with reproductive health care agencies across the country at the federal, state, and local levels with the consistent mission of providing quality, person-centered reproductive health care.

Most of my work is for health care professionals. I specialize in translating research into practice, helping to bridge the gap between what research says will help get the best health outcomes for patients, and what actions take place in health care settings across the county, every day. I develop training materials and resources designed to support health care professionals to implement evidence-based reproductive health care. I have deep respect for the work of health care professionals, and through this work my goal is to help make complex research simple and actionable in a world of limited time and high expectations for success. I have a Master of Public Health from Brown University.

As a result of my work, I often find myself having conversations in my personal life about reproductive health, and birth control in particular. I wrote Protected because I found myself answering the same questions about birth control again and again. There is, I realized, a lot of curiosity about birth control. Protected for my sister, for my friends and neighbors, for anyone who has questions about birth control or who finds themselves curious about birth control’s past, present, and future.