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Collective Power for Reproductive Justice.

Collective Rising Fellows.

We have launched an ambitious expansion to meet the sea change in access to abortion resulting from this summer's Dobbs ruling.

One step in our expansion is piloting our new Fellows Program: Five recent program alumni who are organizing across the country from Texas to Chiacgo.

Our cohort of fellows are five incredible young activists, all of whom have been through our internship program. Earlier this year, we heard about their work supporting Collecting Rising Interns. This time, they will share about their work in building connections and community around reproductive justice in different census areas of the U.S.

Join us on Tuesday, September 20 at 6 pm EST to hear from each of them about their work in different regions of the country.

Aisha, Alyssa, Daniela, Janessa, and SabriAnan will share about what they are seeing and learning on the ground as they build and deepen relationships with activists and leaders, students, faculty, campuses and community-based organizations in their area. (See each of their bios below!)

Our Fellows Program aims to:

Create continued leadership opportunities for our alums.
Identify, connect with, and support critical local and regional grassroots work.
Grow our summer internship program, Collective Rising, from 35 to 50 interns.

Join us September 20:

Please RSVP to susan@collectivepowerrj.org

	Janessa Waiters Northeast Region Janessa Waiters (she/they) is the fellowship director at Beyond Identity, a program that trains young BIPOC and other students pushed to the margins in identity-driven research. As a Collective Rising Intern in 2018, Janessa interned at National Advocates for Pregnant Women. She is a reiki teacher and practitioner working toward self and collective healing. Their zine chronicling their domestic care work journey will be released Spring 2022. Janessa’s Collective Rising Fellowship will focus on building relationships and supporting reproductive justice needs within the Northeast region.
	Alyssa Stenson Southeast Region Alyssa Stenson (she/they) is a black queer reproductive justice organizer. Currently, Alyssa is an abortion doula and does self-managed abortion education. As a 2020 Collective Rising Intern, she completed an internship at Advocates for Youth. Alyssa’s Collective Rising Fellowship will focus on building relationships and supporting reproductive justice needs within the Southeast region.
	Daniela Juarez West Region Daniela Juarez (she/they) is currently a senior at the University of Texas at Dallas majoring in sociology and political science. She will be starting a sociology Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago this upcoming fall hoping to research educational inequalities among undocumented immigrants. They believe that research should be accessible to individuals to make effective change and have been dedicated to working within community organizations that address reproductive justice and inequalities within the undocumented community. Daniela was a Collective Rising Intern in 2021 at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Daniela’s Collective Rising Fellowship will focus on building relationships and supporting reproductive justice needs within the West.
	Aisha Mahama-Rodriguez Southwest Region Aisha Mahama-Rodríguez (she/they) is an Afro-Latine raised in Dallas, Texas. Aisha is passionate about food and environmental justice, prison decarceration and abolition, and how these matters interact with reproductive justice as a whole. A recent graduate from The University of Texas at Austin with Bachelors in English and Government, she has worked with the Texas Civil Rights Project, the Texas House of Representatives, the ACLU of Colorado, and the U.S. House of Representatives. As a Collective Rising Intern in 2020, she worked with the Reproductive Rights portion of the ACLU of Colorado and conducted research on reproductive healthcare access for people in the Colorado carceral system as well as led reproductive rights webinars. Aisha’s Collective Rising Fellowship will focus on building relationships and supporting reproductive justice needs within the Southwest region.
	SabriAnan Micha Midwest Region SabriAnan (they/he) is a Black, Oromo, Queer, and Trans Southerner currently based in Chicago. They are a doula and advocate, with a passion for collective global liberation, healing, and joy. They are also a storyteller and artist, exploring different mediums and ways to bring art into their healing practice each day. SabriAnan was a Collective Rising Intern in 2018 at the Trans Buddy Program. SabriAnan’s Collective Rising Fellowship will focus on building relationships and supporting reproductive justice needs within the Midwest region.

The launch of our new Collective Rising Fellows program is being funded by The Marlene Fund. Click here to learn more about the fund and how you can help make this work possible.