Kirsten Moore is the President and CEO of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, a women’s health group based in DC. RHTP was founded in 1988 to help women in the US obtain access to RU-486. In 2006, RHTP won a great victory when the FDA made Plan B emergency contraception available over the counter. In addition to its policy work, RHTP has done groundbreaking research on messaging on abortion and related issues, using new methodologies like cognitive linguistics, psychological analysis, and advanced statistical modeling, and surveys that oversample African-American and Latino populations.

Aimée R. Thorne-Thomsen, MPA, brings her passion as a social justice activist and her extensive experience in organizational development, leadership and communications to her role as Executive Director of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP). Her work at PEP focuses on creating spaces for and elevating the voices of young women in the reproductive justice movement. Ms. Thorne-Thomsen’s work with Latino college students and graduates, led her to co-found the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO), where she served as Chair for four years.

Prior to joining PEP, she held senior management positions in several non-profit organizations, and served as Account Manager at Prime Access, Inc., a full-service advertising agency targeting African-American, Latino and LGBTQ markets. A former National President and Board member of Alpha Rho Lambda Sorority, Inc., Ms. Thorne-Thomsen also served on the Selection Panel for the New Voices Fellowship.

She also demonstrates her leadership through her participation on the Center for American Progress Women’s Health Leadership Network, the Board of Directors for Law Students for Choice, the Editorial Board of Our Truths/Nuestras Verdades, and the National Advisory Council of Exhale. Ms. Thorne-Thomsen earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a Master of Public Administration from the City University of New York.