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."
Coya White Hat-Artichoker
Coya White Hat-Artichoker was born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota; she is a proud enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Coya has been doing activist work in various communities and movements since the age of 15. She is a founding member of the First Nations Two Spirit Collective, which works to build a stronger political presence for Two Spirit people within the national dialogue of queer rights. She is now Program Officer for Safety, Health, & Economic Justice at the Ms. Foundation for Women. Before this, she was a Community Health and Health Equity Program Manager at the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross Blue Shield, doing community funding across three health initiatives. She has been an Advisory Committee member for the Host Home Program, working to provide safe homes for homeless queer youth. Coya has also worked with a number of philanthropic organizations, including Astraea, Funders Exchange Outfund, Headwaters Fund, PFund, and the Bush Foundation. She is a former board member of the American Indian OIC and PFund, and she currently serves as a board member for SisterSong and the American LGBTQ+ Museum. She or her writing has appeared in: After Stonewall, (After Stonewall Productions) a film; The Advocate; “40 under 40” LGBT Leaders in the United States for 2010; “Sharing Our Stories of Survival” (Altamira Press 2007), the blog Bilerico Project; and The Huffington Post.
Dee Srivastava
Dee Srivastava is a reproductive health, rights, and justice advocate based in Washington, DC. By day, she is on the public policy team at Planned Parenthood, where she serves the national office and affiliates with regulatory policy analysis, development, and strategy. Her expertise is on federal grants, the Affordable Care Act, health care reform, civil rights in health care, youth health and rights, and immigrant health. As a first generation American, former amateur child translator, and newly-insured person, Dee strives to bring the lenses of equity, racial justice, and intersectionality to all of her work. By night, Dee works with the DC Abortion Fund, an organization that provides direct grants to abortion-seekers throughout the mid-Atlantic, anchored in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. She has experience with case management, service delivery improvement and innovation, strategic planning, and organizational transformation. Dee is also a full-spectrum doula, grateful for the opportunity to hold space for all pregnant people and their circumstances.
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.
poppy Liu
Poppy Liu is a first generation Chinese American actor and producer who brings their identity as a queer migrant person of the API diaspora into art, entertainment and community organizing. Poppy’s reproductive justice story began with an autobiographical short film about their abortion which they toured to dozens of college campuses and on two Bible Belt abortion storytelling tours. They subsequently trained with Ancient Song Doula Services and has supported a number of births and numerous abortions as a doula. Poppy stars in and executive produced the viral web series ‘Mercy Mistress’ which is written by and and based on Yin Q's life as a professional dominatrix and explores the intersections of SM, spirituality, and healing from trauma through kink. Poppy works primarily in TV/film (Hacks, Dead Ringers, American Born Chinese, The Afterparty, Better Call Saul, Sunnyside to name a few) and has been named the 2022 HBO APA Visionaries Ambassador, one of The Advocate’s 2021 People of the Year, one of Out Magazine’s OUT100 2021, and one of The Advocate’s Champions of Pride in 2019.