Veronica spends her days working on education equity as director of an academic support program for women in science and engineering. She has worked with organizations such as the Chicago Abortion Fund, Women in Media & News, NOW (at the local, state and national levels) and helped Planned Parenthood Illinois launch their blog in October 2007. She contributes to a lot of blogs, but her personal site is Viva la Feminista where she explores the intersection of motherhood, feminism, and being a Latina. Sometimes she feels sorry that her husband is the only male in their home as even their dachshund is a girl.
A love-and-justice letter from a mother to her daughter on Valentine’s Day.
Opponents of the Illinois state Reproductive Health and Access Act are stoking fears on abortion. But the vast majority of Illinois residents support this comprehensive, reproductive justice-oriented bill.
Illinois’s reproductive justice advocates are backing one of the most comprehensive reproductive health bills the state has ever seen. And they’re bringing in new allies for the fight.
