Sheila (she/her)

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Sheila is the Research Director at the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access, where she provides strategic leadership to shape and implement a research portfolio that advances sexual and reproductive health equity and justice in the United States. She has dedicated her career to expanding abortion provision and access, advancing immigrants’ sexual and reproductive health, and supporting adolescent sexual health across the country. Sheila has previously served on the board of the New York Abortion Access Fund and is a proud We Testify abortion storyteller. She earned her DrPH in epidemiology from the CUNY School of Public Health and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.