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Who We Are 

Each project launched through Innovations has an independent leader directing its work. These are the consultants who lead our current projects:

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The Period Pills Project,
Cari Sietstra, JD

Ms. Sietstra is a senior consultant directing The Period Pills Project, and provides mentoring and technical assistance for other Innovations project leaders. From 2014-2021 she was a founding principal at Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants, where her work explored innovative frames for the very early use of uterine evacuation medicines, strategies to expand and protect access to misoprostol in the US, and projects that reduced harm from unsafe abortion in long-term conflict settings. She was the founder of Law Students for Choice (now If/When/How, Lawyering for Reproductive Justice) and has consulted for leading reproductive health and rights organizations including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Ibis Reproductive Health. Ms. Sietstra holds a law degree from Stanford Law School and a BA from Harvard University.

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Right By You,
Stephanie Kraft Sheley, JD, MHA

Ms. Sheley is an attorney, consultant and birth worker-in-training. She founded and directs Right By You to support young Missourians' autonomous decisions about their reproductive lives. She also runs a solo law practice taking on abortion access and birth rights matters, serves as treasurer of the Birth Rights Bar Association, and in is training as a full-spectrum doula and childbirth educator.

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Centering Community Voices, Fatoumata Bah 

Fatoumata is the Project Lead for Community Voices. She is currently a MSc in Health and International Development candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Fatoumata was previously a program assistant at Gynuity Health Projects, where she supported research studies on issues ranging from telemedicine abortion to postpartum hemorrhage. She obtained her B.A in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College.

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Pasque Project, Tatiana Chance

Tatiana Chance is the lead for the Pasque Project, where she explores the priorities and understanding of youth in SD in relation to abortion access and reproductive justice.  A senior at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD, Tatiana is very involved in RJ activism, focusing on equitable access to menstrual products and abortion. As a 16-year-old, Tatiana created Help 4 Huhas, a non-profit that provides free menstrual products to those who are in need. Tatiana is also the president of the student organization, HAPPY that provides free menstrual products and condoms on campus. Tatiana Tatiana also works with the ACLU on the Reproductive Freedom Youth Legislative Advisory Committee in SD and serves on the board of Innovations in Reproductive Health Access.

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