Ms. Singer has been a
Certified Nurse Midwife since 1991 and a Clinical Teaching Associate at The
Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown
University since 1998
where she regularly lectures on abortion to medical students, ob residents,
midwifery students. Trained in surgical abortion in 1998, she has
presented on abortion at the American College of Nurse Midwives and helped change Rhode Island health
department regulations to expand role of midlevel providers in abortion
provision.
Stanley K. Henshaw, PhD Treasurer
Dr. Henshaw is a Senior Fellow at the Guttmacher Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 60 articles and publications on abortion utilization in the U.S. and internationally, abortion policies and services, teenage pregnancy, unintended pregnancy, and family planning. With colleagues at the Guttmacher Institute, he conducted two cross-national studies of family planning services and teenage reproductive behavior. Dr. Henshaw has served as expert witness in numerous legal proceedings involving abortion restrictions. For six years he served as member of the board of directors of the National Abortion Federation and received the Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award from that organization. Dr. Henshaw holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University.
Ms. Edlund has been Director of the Family Planning Program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health since 1992, where she developed and manages the state’s family planning program, which provides comprehensive family planning services in over 80 sites statewide. She has been responsible for developing and shaping the program standards, as well as developing other systems such as billing, reporting, monitoring and evaluation. She has also developed significant program initiatives in the areas of emergency contraception, abortion access and social marketing. She has served as chair of the State Family Planning Administrators, a national family planning organization, and has been a member of its Steering Committee since 1996.
Susan Dickler, MPA, MSW
Director
Susan was the founding
Executive Director of The Dickler Family Foundation, which supports family
planning and reproductive health through grants to international and domestic
programs. She is currently Executive Vice Chair of The Dickler Family
Foundation and a board member of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
She takes an active role in her foundation's reproductive health funding
abroad. Susan's philanthropic training and interest developed while staffing
the Reproductive Rights and Health Coalition Fund at the Ms. Foundation for
Women and, later, as the Ms. Foundation's Grants Director. She also served as
Vice President for Management and Development of the Environmental Policy
Institute and Executive Director of Voters for Choice in Washington,
D.C. Susan combines over 25 years of
foundation and non-profit management experience with a Masters in Public Administration
from Harvard University
and a Masters in Social Work from Columbia.
Lisa M. Stone, Esq.
Director
Ms. Stone has been Executive
Director of Legal Voice (formerly the Northwest Women's Law Center), a non-profit legal advocacy organization
dedicated to advancing legal rights for women, for more than 14 years. In addition to her experience litigating on
behalf of women patients and reproductive health care providers, she has
expertise in the areas of civil rights, sex discrimination, the rights of lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender persons, and non-profit legal issues. Ms. Stone
has served on the Women's Health Leadership Network of the Center for American
Progress; is a founding Board member of the Women's Bioethics Project, a think
tank dedicated to bringing a feminist perspective to bioethics issues; and is a
founding Board member and Vice President of the Washington Prescription Drug
Assistance Foundation, which aims to provide brand-name medication to
low-income uninsured people. She has been
an attorney with the federal government and in private practice, and an
environmental manager with a national oil spill cleanup company. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the
University of Washington Law School in 1985.
Melanie Zurek, EdM
Director
Ms. Zurek has been the Executive Director of the Abortion Access Project since August 2004. Prior to joining AAP, Ms. Zurek managed education and training programs for the Family Planning Program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and was the Coordinator of Professional Education at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund.
