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Federal Election Outcomes Will Further Endanger Reproductive Health Access While Voters Support Reproductive Freedom through Ballot Measures

In a post-Roe landscape, federal election results further endanger access to sexual and reproductive health care nationally, even as voters acted to protect and restore abortion rights for millions of Americans in their home states. Voters approved abortion rights ballot measures in seven out of ten states where reproductive freedom was directly on the ballot. Read more in our press release >>>

What Drives a Nonprofit to Choose Co-Leadership? Trust.

As co-CEOs, Khalfani and Moy perform typical duties, such as generating revenue for the organization, but they’re doing this work in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade being overturned in 2022. Even before that landmark decision, of course, reproductive health work faced fierce opposition. Moving to a co-leadership model created a safe space for the two leaders to tackle difficult challenges together.

“[Co-leadership] is more effective and efficient because we can … show up as our full self and our best self, because we are able to really lean into areas where we have the expertise and can drive the work forward,” Moy says. “Then, we check in with each other and make sure that we're sharing the vision and driving the work forward and in a way that we have agreed upon and developed with our staff and board.” Read the whole article >>>

More Press Releases

• 11.6.24 – Federal Election Outcomes Will Further Endanger Reproductive Health Access While Voters Support Reproductive Freedom through Ballot Measures
• 10.21.24 – Essential Access Health Applauds Biden-Harris Administration for Proposed Expansions to Birth Control Access
• 10.8.24 – Essential Access Health Joins Reproductive Health Organizations in Support of Prop 35
• 9.26.24 – Governor Newsom Fails California Youth Again by Blocking Bill to Make Free Condoms Available Amid Rising STI Rates Among Youth
• 9.05.24 – Essential Access Health Launches TeenSource Action: Empowering California Youth to Drive Systemic Change
• 8.12.24 – Essential Access Health Announces Dr. Porsia Curry as Inaugural Vice President of Culture + People

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More Essential Access In the News

• 11.19.24 – San Francisco Examiner: SF advocates say Prop. O win bittersweet amid federal election results
• 11.18.24 – CalMatters: How will Trump change health care? California braces for fights over insurance and abortion
• 10.30.24 – San Francisco Chronicle: Public support for abortion funds surged after Roe. What happens when the money runs out?
• 7.28.24 – San Francisco Examiner: Abortion advocates have unfamiliar feeling with Harris running: Hope
• 4.12.24 – The Bridgespan Group: What Drives a Nonprofit to Choose Co-Leadership? A Desire for a More Humane Way to Lead

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