WE ARE COLLECTIVE POWER FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE.
OUR VISION
We envision a world centering on liberation, inclusivity, and joy, where the lived experiences of everyone reflect that reproductive justice is a basic human right.
OUR WORK
National Internships
Provides college students with paid summer internships and leadership training at leading social justice organizations across the country.
Apply for the Collective Rising Internship →
Emerging Leaders
Provides training, support, networking, and movement building opportunities to early career activists and professionals.
Become an Emerging Leader →
The Conference
An annual national reproductive justice conference that brings together leading practitioners, activists, health care professionals, and youth organizers.
Register for the Conference →
Challenging Population Control
Produces cutting-edge research for the reproductive justice movement to challenge dominant discriminatory population narratives and policies.
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OUR HISTORY
Collective Power has been engaging young people in reproductive health, rights, and justice activism since 1981.
At that time, Ronald Reagan had just been elected, anti-abortion influence was intensifying, and pro-choice activists were struggling with the right-wing backlash against the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. In those years of political retrenchment, Hampshire College’s third president, Adele Simmons, launched Collective Power – then known as the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program – to work with students and other young constituencies and bring their energy and ideas into the reproductive rights movement.
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OUR MISSION
We inspire, educate, & support new activists & leadership to create a world in which reproductive, racial, & economic justice are embedded in our collective liberation.
OUR IMPACT HAS A RIPPLE EFFECT.
…and counting.
DIVE DEEPER INTO OUR COLLECTIVE IMPACT