Marcela Howell
Marcela Howell is president and CEO of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Agenda, a national state partnership of eight Black women’s reproductive justice organizations.
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Liz Theoharis
Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and a lecturer at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
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Utibe R. Essien
Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and a general internist and health disparities researcher at the VA Pittsburgh Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion.
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Emile DeWeaver
Emile DeWeaver is an activist and author whose life sentence was commuted after 21 years for his community work in prison. The co-founder of Prison Renaissance, DeWeaver also covertly organized to pass legislation that changed the way California treats juveniles in its criminal legal system while in prison.
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Heidi Porter
Heidi Porter is a local public health director who is used to getting calls for the unusual and the mundane. She delivers public health services in Bedford, Mass., from a broad, whole health perspective, relying on a multidisciplinary health and human services team.
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Marcella Alsan and Crystal Yang
Crystal Yang and Marcella Alsan are researching healthcare accreditation in correctional facilities.
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Jacqueline Ayers
Jacqueline Ayers, Senior Vice President for Policy, Campaigns, and Advocacy for Planned Parenthood, has worked as a lobbyist and advocate to improve health care for over sixteen years.
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Bella Blue
Public Health Post talks with Bella Blue, a New Orleans sex worker, about the experiences she’s had working in the sex industry for the past 15 years.
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Michael Cox and Rayna Danis
PHP talks with Michael Cox, executive director of Black and Pink Massachusetts and Rayna Danis, a 2021 Getting to Zero Coalition Activist Academy Fellow, to discuss the movement to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts.
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