Khadine Bennett is a staff attorney and currently the Legal Fellow of the Reproductive Rights Project of the ACLU of Illinois. Khadine has been involved in the Project’s recent litigation and advocacy efforts, including the federal and state court challenges to the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act and the Campaign for Reproductive Health and Access – an advocacy effort geared towards passing the Reproductive Health and Access Act (RHAA) – affirmative legislation that would assure all people in Illinois a continuum of information and choices throughout their reproductive lives including, responsible sexual health education, access to the full range of birth control options and prenatal care, and the right to choose abortion. Khadine began her social justice career in the Bay Area and has worked as an organizer, program director, consultant and director of various human rights, juvenile justice, youth development and reproductive justice organizations including WILD for Human Rights, Youth Force Coalition and the California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Khadine has served on the board of the Third Wave Foundation, WILD for Human Rights, Exhale and is currently the co-chair of the Chicago Abortion Fund.

Allie Carter is the Senior Field Manager of the ACLU of Illinois, developing and implementing field strategies in support of the ACLU’s legislative, legal and public education priorities, with particular emphasis on the areas of national security, reproductive justice and LGBT rights, as well as managing email communications with supporters and online advocacy. She previously served for two years as the Project Manager for Equal Marriage Illinois and helped to direct 2004’s Fair Illinois effort which successfully challenged a proposed anti-gay marriage referendum. Allie served for three years as a community organizer in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso, West Africa. She also worked as a field organizer on Oregon’s successful 1999 “No on 9″ campaign, which defeated an anti-gay rights constitutional amendment. Allie writes for the ACLU Insider blog.