Who makes inroads?

Aditi Pinto

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inroads Programs and Connections Director

Aditi facilitates and deepens the power of member-led learning spaces, co-creates critical documentation and strategic sharing of abortion stigma-busting practices and co-designs the processes for community resourcing and participatory funding at inroads. She is based in India, between Bombay and Dharamshala, and communicates fluently in English, Hindi and Spanish. Through their own abortion experiences, acknowledging their priveleged caste location, they are motivated to fight for reproductive justice for all, especially undoing the stigma faced by the most marginalized.

Their work stems from a journey of learning/unlearning as well as a keen interest in popular education and pedagogy, narrative practices and transformation, participatory facilitation of collective and creative processes. She weaves in a cross-movements perspective from her other experience with groups focussed on collective feminist organizing, knowledge-sharing and documentation processes around issues of food sovereignty and forest rights.

They are a huge fan of baking cakes for friends, reading and book-shelf admiring, sleeping in late, sun-set and moon gazing, long walks and dancing to cumbia, afro and son-jarocho loud music!

Amanda Tiew Jia Ern

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inroads Member Capacity and Accompaniment Manager

Amanda is the inroads Member Capacity and Accompaniment Manager. She walks alongside inroads members in their stigma-busting journeys – this can be through gatherings, grantmaking, programming, and more – and manages opportunities for membership needs through programmatic collaboration and capacity strengthening.

Her background as hotline and research coordinator for the Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM), where she continues to actively volunteer, and training as a birth doula lay the foundation for her belief in a world where reproductive justice is accessible to all.

Amanda holds an MSc in reproductive and sexual health research and a BA in English literature and creative writing. Often in the pursuit of all things sweet, sour, and spicy in her home city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Amanda communicates fluently in English, Mandarin, and Malay.

Christine Wambua

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inroads Finance and Budget Manager

Christine is the Finance and Budget Manger at inroads. She has extensive knowledge in finance management, budgets and works with external accounting company to ensure that key financial reports are accurately and timely filed. She compiles accurate program and proposal budgets, oversees spending and ensures that all expenditures are appropriately. Christine is passionate to ensure adolescent girls and young women have access to information on sexual reproductive health rights while referring them to relevant service providers. Before joining inroads, she had worked with WISE Kenya, GIZ and ActionAid International Kenya as a finance lead. Christine comes from Kenya and speaks in English, Swahili and Kamba.

Kati LeTourneau

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inroads Research and Operations Director

Kati LeTourneau manages the day-to-day operations of inroads, overseeing the systems that support the staff who build inroads' programs, and the systems that inroads members use to communicate and participate in those programs. Kati designs and implements policies and processes to further the strategic goals of this global, stigma-busting network, with careful attention to how those processes align with inroads' core values. She is also responsible for the research and evaluation components of inroads, which includes both evaluating the impact of the different network activities (have you ever completed a survey after a gathering or a webinar? She synthesizes these responses and uses your input to plan for future activities), and sifting through the research about what works to reduce stigma as it emerges.

Prior to inroads, Kati provided training and technical assistance to abortion-providing clinics for Planned Parenthood when medical abortion was being rolled out across the United States. She has also worked on evaluation and training for research and program delivery on adolescent and reproductive health. When she's not making inroads, you might find her sailing, camping with her family, gardening, or lifting heavy weights for fun.

Katie Gillum

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inroads Executive Director

Katie Gillum sets the vision and agenda for this vibrant global network. She relies and focuses on the needs and expertise of network members and the Steering Committee to ensure the network vision and agenda is relevant to members and practically useful for ending the stigma and discrimination associated with abortion. When planning activities and processes, Katie works with the team to remain grounded in the purpose of this network and making sure our processes are aligned with the network values. She is responsible for strategic program management and providing key oversight and design strategy for inroads systems, programs, processes and tools. Katie leads inroads external partnerships, including donor relationships and inroads’ presence at conferences and events, and authors opinions and editorials for publications.

She came to the role after serving as Campaign Co-Convenor for the Abortion Rights Campaign in Ireland. Katie ran research and strategy at Mule Design Studio; was Managing Director of Disposable Film Festival; and has led media and arts engagement initiatives producing advocacy films and content including an award-winning film addressing abortion stigma.

Maria Paula Godoy Casasbuenas

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inroads Member Resourcing and Convening Coordinator

Maria is the inroads Member Resourcing and Convening Coordinator Based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Her work is to coordinate and support various processes so that inroads members have access to information, skill and knowledge sharing projects as well as grant programs.

She has worked within feminist and LGTBQI+ grassroots collectives like Las Parceras and Cuerpxs en Resistencia. She is a passionate believer in the power of community-based work and research to actually build sustainable change.

When she is not working at inroads, you can find her taking classes and learning something new because that is what drives her through life. You can also find her reading novels or spending time with her family and friends. She communicates in Spanish, English, French as well as German.

Mariana González

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inroads Communications Manager

Mariana is the Communications Manager at inroads.

She is a firm believer in the power of communication to shift the conversation and enact positive cultural change. She is passionate about intersectional women’s rights, reproductive justice, and achieving legal, accessible, and stigma-free abortion globally.

In 2016 she founded Onda Feminista, a Spanish-speaking feminist media platform dedicated to fostering gender equality in Latin America that reaches more than 60.000 yearly readers. In the past ten years, she split her time between a full-time remote corporate job in the market research industry and management and communications work for Onda Feminista, the Latin American Women’s Right Service (LAWRS), and the local executive board of AIESEC in Venezuela. Originally from Venezuela, she is now primarily based in the United Kingdom.

Tabitha Trahan

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inroads Full Stack Developer

Tabi is the inroads full stack developer based out of Vermont, USA. Tabi started her journey with inroads as an independent Data Scientist working on the Sentiment Gatherer project. Tabi’s work with inroads is a crossing of many paths. As a member of the board for Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom, Tabi works within her local community to make sure that abortion access is available to all. Prior to inroads Tabi worked as a Data Scientist and Music Psychologist. Her research focused on individual differences in music listening, music and personality, music’s effect on behaviour, and music and health - specifically sleep. Tabi spends her time enjoying all the nature Vermont has to offer: climbing, biking, swimming, hiking or snowboarding, spending time with her community, travelling or making music with friends.

Zanda Desir

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Operations and Community Culture Coordinator

Zanda is the Operations and Community Culture Coordinator at inroads. She works closely with the Executive Director and Director of Operations and Research to keep the growing inroads team resourced, informed, connected, and moving toward a world without abortion stigma. Her logistics and coordination experience comes from her time spent serving Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassadors Network (CYPAN) as the Regional Coordinator for the Caribbean and Americas, and various roles as a Women Deliver Young Leader Alumni. Her feminist organizing has mainly focused on denouncing victim blaming post abuse, reducing systemic inequalities, improving access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, and decolonizing feminist movements. She also loves food science and serves as an advisor to the FREE STEM Fund. When she is not working at inroads, you can find her immersing herself in different cultures, dancing to their music and savoring the food. Or, you can find her where the water is- by the beach, river or waterfalls.