I am a bilingual interdisciplinary researcher, multimedia historian, educator, advocate in the movements for reproductive rights, health, and justice, abortion story-sharer, and story-listener with an emphasis on honoring people’s lived experiences, intimate interviewing, active and empathetic listening, intersectional perspectives, and historical memory.

My own abortion experience as a teenager (in 1997) inspired me to create The Abortion Diary (in 2013), the only audio archive of abortion stories and abortion provider stories. I’m an expert on abortion story-sharing and listening, and work to center the voices of people who have had abortions and end abortion (an all SHRH related) stigma in all facets of my life.

My research skills were fine-tuned in the humanities as a historian conducting archival research in the Dominican Republic and U.S. on gender and public health policies in the Dominican Republic, conducting public health and social science research to advance access to abortion and patient centered care, and story-listening to hundreds of reproductive experiences across generations.

I fuse my interest in public health science and social science qualitative and quantitative research with humanities research methodologies. My method of intimate interviewing disrupts traditional modes of research and analysis, and prioritizes the challenging work of honoring people’s lived experiences and listening actively and empathetically in order to gather richer and more authentic stories. I also have expertise on digital and data security for research.