Meet the 2026 Speakers!

Keynote speaker:

Sarah Garza Resnick

Chief Executive Officer at Personal PAC

Breakout Panels:

Accessibility to Medical Care

Dr. Lauren Laursen

Division Director of Family Planning at Rush University Medical Center and co-director of the Complex Abortion Regional Line for Access

Louisa Richardson Deppe

Chief operating officer at Hope Clinic

Disproportionally Affected Groups in Maternal Care

Elizabeth Posner

Board Chair to the Board of Planned Parenthood Illinois Action

Dr. Ashlesha Patel

MD Obstetrics & Gynecology

Gender Affirming Care

Asher McMaher

Executive Director of Trans Up Front Illinois

Dr. Corey Lascano

Director of Education for Trans Up Front Illinois and a leading advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights within Chicago’s public schools

History of Reproductive Rights

Allison Siebeneck

Director of the Women’s and Reproductive Rights Project at the ACLU of Illinois

Ryan C Ferrante

Leading attorney and advocate for assisted reproduction technology (ART) law

Pro-Choice Candidates

Rep. Kimberly du Buclet

State Representative for Illinois’ 5th District

Senator Lakesia Collins

State Senator for Illinois’ 5th District

Rep. Ann Williams

State Representative for Illinois’ 11th District

Rep. Sonya Harper

State Representative for Illinois’ 6th District

50 States Road

Nick Uniejewski

Community organizer and candidate for Illinois’s 6th District State Senate seat

Kim D. Ricardo

Lucy Sprague Professor in Public Interest and Associate Dean of Experiential Education at UIC Law

Misinformation After Roe v. Wade

Lisa Battisfore

Founder of Reproductive Transparency Now

Dr. Erica Hinz

ObGyn and Complex Family Planning specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Alicia Hurtado

Director of Advocacy and Communications at the Chicago Abortion Fund

Censorship

Dr. Debra Stulberg

Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Chicago

Dr. Bridget Lohrius

Founder and CEO of SANDWINA

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