Rev. Anne Fowler, Chair

Ellen Fisher, Vice-Chair

Kimberly Haskins, Treasurer

 

Happy Green

Kathy-Ann Hart

Martha Nencioli

Samuel Perkins

Brad Reichard

Lindsey Tucker

Rep. Marty Walz

Susan Yanow

 

 

 

Melvin Scovell, President

Andy Langowitz, Treasurer

Jan Levinson, Clerk

 

Gail Epstein

Kimberly Haskins

Cynthia Medeiros

Evan Rauch

Julie Schecter

 

 

 

Andrea Miller is a reproductive rights and women’s health expert with a long history of advocating for the right to choose. For nearly two decades, Miller has served in the leadership of and as a consultant to a host of non-profit, advocacy, and philanthropic organizations. Before relocating to Boston to attend Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Miller was a principal at Public Interest Media Group (PIMG), a national communications and public affairs firm based in New York City. While there, she was a key player in devising and implementing the successful strategy to gain over-the-counter access to Plan B, the emergency contraceptive pill. She also helped to conceive and launch national campaigns to counter the troubling trend of politics trumping science in the Bush Administration and to educate women about emergency contraception (Back Up Your Birth Control).

 

During her eight-year tenure at PIMG, Miller secured and supervised accounts for Advocates for Youth, the Guttmacher Institute, Ms. Foundation for Women, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Reproductive Health Technologies Project, United Nations Development Fund for Women, and the White House Project, among others. She also served as director of the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation’s Media Resource for Reproductive and Sexual Health. Before joining PIMG, Miller helped to found the Center for Reproductive Rights and served as communications director for its first five years, crafting and implementing public affairs strategies around high-profile Supreme Court cases such as Planned Parenthood v. Casey and federal and state policies affecting women’s health and rights. She started her professional career at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. Miller has a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Columbia College, Columbia University. She is a native of Minnesota.

 

Stacie Garnett (Director of Health Equity and Access)

Stacie Garnett joined the staff of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts in 2004 and is currently the Director of Health Equity and Access. As part of her work, she coordinates a coalition to improve sexual health services for Boston teens and sits on the Executive Committee of an initiative to improve the reproductive health of young adults aged 18-26. Her work also focuses on efforts to reduce racial and ethnic reproductive health disparities. Stacie developed a diversity plan for the organization and has conducted outreach to communities of color to increase the visibility of the organization and gather information on reproductive health issues in diverse communities. Stacie grew up in Atlanta, GA and studied English at Wellesley College. After graduation, Stacie participated in the Jewish Organizing Initiative fellowship program, learning community organizing skills and working on social justice from a Jewish context. Before coming to NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, she worked as a community organizer at Massachusetts Senior Action Council, organizing senior citizens to fight for better health care.

 

Abby Thorp (Development Director)

Abby has been a part of women and family-centered non-profit organizations doing development, human service, and advocacy work. She earned her BA in Political Science and Classics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and earned a Master's Certificate from the McCormack Institute of Policy Studies' Women in Politics and Public Policy Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Abby joined NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts in January 2007 as Development Associate responsible for all fundraising events.