Advocates' staff is a vibrant and diverse team of youth-serving professionals and youth activists. Staff come from a variety of backgrounds, including public health, law, social work, political science, international affairs, sociology, finance/administration and research, and are dedicated to improving adolescent reproductive and sexual health, securing young people’s rights, and realizing the Rights. Respect.Responsibility.^® vision.

Management Team

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President

Deb Hauser has been with Advocates for Youth for almost 20 years, first as Director of the Support Center for School-based Health Care, then as Executive Vice President. In January 2012, Deb became the organization’s fourth President and Executive Director, representing Advocates with the media, funders and colleagues organizations and speaking nationally and internationally about young people’s rights to honest sexual health information, confidential sexual health services and equitable social and economic opportunities. Deb’s areas of expertise include sex education, family planning and youth development. She is committed to a cascading style of leadership that promotes youth activists as change agents and leaders in the field. Before coming to Advocates, Deb served as Director of Community Health Services for the City of Atlantic City where she designed, implemented, and evaluated sexuality education, health promotion, teen pregnancy prevention, and teen parenting programs for an urban population. Early in her career, Deb served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, implementing child spacing, oral re-hydration, and childhood immunization programs. Deb holds a Masters of Public Health in Population Planning and International Health from the University of Michigan and is the author of numerous publications in the area of adolescent reproductive and sexual health.

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Vice President, Finance and Administration

Kathleen Farrell, Vice President of Finance and Administration, oversees the organization’s financial management/controls. She prepares the organizational budget, works with program staff to develop proposals and financial reports for Advocates’ funders, and works closely with the Board of Directors’ Finance and Board Leadership Committees. She has spent the vast majority of her career working in various program and management capacities for Advocates for Youth. Kathy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the College of William and Mary.

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Executive Vice President for Public Affairs

Kate Stewart is a public opinion research and communications specialist who has worked with a wide-range of advocacy and non-profit organizations on communications, policy, and public affairs. Most recently she was a partner in the research and strategic communications firm, Belden Russonello & Stewart, LLC. Kate has created communications and public relations strategies for clients on topics such as civil liberties, public education, reproductive health, and reproductive justice. Her work has advanced the goals of many organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Ford Foundation, the ACLU, Wisconsin Education Association, the Illinois Education Association, the Center for Reproductive Rights and many others. Kate has been an adjunct professor at American University, where she taught public communication research and has served on the Governing Council of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Kate has served on the Advocates for Youth Board and for the last three years was Board Chair. Kate received a BA with high honors in history from Haverford College and her MS in survey methodology from the University of Maryland.

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Vice President for Strategic Partnerships

Aimée Thorne-Thomsen has an extensive background in communications, movement-building, and leadership development across various social justice movements. Prior to joining the staff at Advocates, she served as the Interim Executive Director for the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and the Executive Director of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP). Aimée has also held senior management positions in the non-profit and private sectors.  She sits on the Board of Directors for Reproductive Health Technologies Project, Mobilize the Immigrant Vote and RH Reality Check.  She is a member of the Women’s Media Center’s She Source and also volunteers as a Leader for the LiveStrong Foundation.  She has spoken around the country at venues including Netroots Nation, Center for American Progress, and WE ACT Advancing Climate Justice Conference, and her writing and blogs have appeared on Daily Kos, Feministing, and RH Reality Check among others. Aimée earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York.

Staff

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Associate director, International Youth Health and Rights

Urooj Arshad manages a project of the International Division that builds the capacity of youth-driven organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to empower young people as powerful advocates within their own countries and at international forums on reproductive and sexual health and rights of youth, especially young women and GLBTQ youth.  Previously, Urooj  provided capacity building services to community based organizations working with youth of color around reproductive and sexual health. Urooj has presented about her work at several domestic and international conferences including the International HIV/AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria; the Youth Pre-conference to the International HIV/AIDS Conference 2012 in Washington, DC; the European Science Foundation’s conference on Religion, Gender and Human Rights 2011 in Linkoping, Sweden;  the LGBT Pride and Heritage Event hosted by the White House Office of Public Engagement and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and at the State Department.  Urooj has had fourteen years of experience organizing within GLBTQ communities of color especially addressing issues of Islamophobia, violence, sexism, transphobia and ageism. Urooj was a member of the Center for American Progress’ Women’s Health Leadership Network and a current member of it’s Faith and Reproductive Justice Institute. Urooj was also a fellow with the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute.

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Director of Domestic Policy

Sarah Audelo is the Director of Domestic Policy at Advocates for Youth. She works sexual and reproductive health policy for young people including: comprehensive sex education, GLBTQ rights, HIV prevention, contraceptive access and abortion rights. Previously she was the Manager of the Youth Activist Network where she worked with youth across the country to fight for accurate sexual health information and services so that they can prevent unintended pregnancy and/or STIs, including HIV. Before joining Advocates, Sarah was a high school special education teacher in La Joya, Texas as part of the Teach for America program. In Texas, she was also a board member for the Valley AIDS Council, a HIV/AIDS service organization. While Sarah attended Georgetown University, she was a member of Advocates’ International Youth Leadership Council, working on international reproductive health and HIV and AIDS issues. She was also a member of MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@s de Aztlan) and an Este Aztlan representative for the National MEChA Coordinating Committee. Sarah is on the board of the National Network of Abortion Funds. She is originally from Bakersfield, California. Sarah has a Master's in Public Policy from The George Washington University.

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Division Director, Health and Social Equity

Jennifer Augustine is the Director of the HIV/STI Prevention Division at Advocates for Youth. She oversees the provision of technical assistance and training to national and community-based organizations serving high-risk youth. Jennifer has 14 years of experience in adolescent sexual and reproductive health. She received a Master’s in Public Health from the George Washington University and is a certified health education specialist.

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Director of Communications

Emily Bridges oversees Advocates' communications strategy including coordinating the online presence of Advocates' public affairs, new and traditional media, and fundraising efforts, as well as working with staff to develop and implement online advocacy campaigns.  She oversees the content of Advocates' web sites, including www.advocatesforyouth.org and www.amplifyyourvoice.org, finalizes materials for publication, develops fact sheets and other educational materials, and assists staff, Advocates' partners, and the public with research. Emily has a Master's in Library Science from the University of Maryland and a BA in English from Towson University.  She has been with Advocates since 2006.

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Senior Program Manager, GLBTQ Health and Rights

Angel Brown is a native Washingtonian, who has been active in the non-profit social justice, social change arena for the past sixteen years. Over the years Angel has served in the capacity as a trainer, organizer, educator, artistic director, performer and advocate in the fight against HIV/AIDS and social stigma. Her work began as an HIV prevention peer educator and she has been going full steam ahead ever since. She is actively involved in the youth, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.

Angel is passionate about youth and their right to live safe, healthy, powerful lives. In her career, she has committed herself to ensuring that adults have all the tools they need to effectively support and be of service to young people. She has been featured in many publications, such as DC’s local GBLTQ newspaper The Washington Blade and The Advocate magazine featuring her efforts as an advocate for the GLBTQ community. She continues to be active as an advocate for continued HIV/AIDS education, community accountability and mobilization, public policy and accessible HIV treatment, among the many other human adversaries that afflict her communities.

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Director, International Youth Health and Rights Division

Nicole Cheetham is the Director of the International Youth Health and Rights Division of Advocates for Youth, where she has worked for over ten years. In this capacity she provides leadership in setting international programmatic priorities and supports the implementation of initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean focused on youth-led advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights; community mobilization, peer education, and youth-friendly services programming; and global and US-based advocacy to advance youth sexual and reproductive health and rights. Nicole started her career in international public health working on maternal and child health and nutrition issues at the American Public Health Association, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Manoff Group. Nicole holds a Masters of Health Sciences in International Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of American Sexuality Education.

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Manager of Communications and Public Relations

Rachel is the Manager of Communications and Public Relations at Advocates for Youth. She works directly with the media to add the voice of young people in the conversation about adolescent reproductive sexual health; promotes the organization, its programs and campaigns; leads media trainings; and engages external audiences with Advocates' various social media properties. A native Washingtonian, Rachel graduated from The George Washington University with a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Communications. Prior to joining Advocates she was a Senior Account Executive at GolinHarris, a global PR agency, was the Communications Assistant at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, and worked at Strauss Radio Strategies and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Director of Development

As Advocates’ Director of Development, Gail is responsible for coordinating the organization’s fundraising efforts, which include foundation proposal and report writing, researching and cultivating new prospects, and producing individual donor appeals. She has worked in fundraising for 17 years, including positions as Development Associate for the Center for Community Change and Associate Director of Development for the Henry L. Stimson Center. Gail also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Haiti, where she worked with a women’s cooperative to teach them small business skills. While in Haiti, she also taught grant writing to local organizations. Gail has a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Political Science from Miami University (Ohio) and a Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Director, Adolescent Sexual Health Services

Laura Davis is Director of Adolescent Sexual Health Services at Advocates for Youth. She has both international and domestic experience, including more than twenty years of program planning, teaching, training, and organizational development in the field of reproductive and sexual health. She is the former manager of a mall-based family planning clinic for teens and has worked as a consultant with International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United States Agency for International Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the co-author (with Dr. Claire Brindis and Susan Pagliaro) of Communities Responding to the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (Advocates for Youth, 1998) and Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens (National Campaign, 2000).

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Manager of Social Innovation Design

Rosanna designs and builds campaign-specific websites and print materials while maintaining the visual consistency and vibrancy of Advocates' brand throughout. She is an alumni of the socially-oriented design workshop Project M and contributed to the spin-off project PieLab. Rosanna received a Bachelors of Fine Art in Graphic Design from the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

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Web Development and Technology Associate

Miki Foster is a digital artist from Seattle, Washington. She has worked with a number of non-profit organizations as a teaching artist, videographer and graphic artist in the Bay Area and Seattle. She received an MFA in Digital Arts/New Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2009 and a Bachelors of Arts concentrating in Film and Critical Theory from the Evergreen State College.

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Associate Director, Finance and Administration

Yvonne Gaither has been Advocates for Youth’s Office Administrator since 1994. Yvonne has over 14 years of corporate bookkeeping and accounting experience and has worked with nonprofits for over 19 years. Yvonne has also participated in volunteer work at D.C. General Hospital and Columbia Hospital for Women.

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Program Coordinator, Health and Social Equity

Sulava Gautam-Adhikary is the Program Coordinator for the Health and Social Equity department. She works on Advocates’ cooperative agreement with the CDC/Division on Adolescent and School Health (DASH) to increase the capacity of targeted state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to improve their policies, systems and environments to meet the sexual health needs of youth at disproportionately high risk for HIV, STIs, and teen pregnancy. She also provides technical assistance for a team of school and community-based partners at targeted SEAs and LEAs seeking to improve policies for evidence-based sex education, linkages to sexual and emotional health services and safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth, among other strategies. Prior to this, Sulava worked as an intern in the International and Public Policy divisions at Advocates. Sulava has a Master’s degree in Public Policy with a concentration in global medical policy from George Mason University.

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Executive Secretary

Rana Holland has been at Advocates for Youth since July 1987.  After nine months on the front desk, she became the Executive Secretary. Until 1992, she worked for Judith Senderowitz, our founding Executive Director/President who currently serves on the Board of Directors. She also worked for the two executive director/presidents who served between Judy and our current CEO, Debra Hauser.

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Director, Education and Outreach

Barbara Kemp Huberman has been actively involved in sexuality education and adolescent sexual health for almost 40 years. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from the University of Florida and a Masters in Education from the University of North Carolina. She is a certified sexuality educator and counselor and was one of the first Lamaze childbirth instructors and trainers in the U.S. Ms. Huberman has authored books on teen pregnancy prevention and building community and state teen pregnancy prevention councils, and co-authored the widely recognized monograph “European Approaches to Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Responsibility.” She is the founder of “Let’s Talk Month,” an international campaign each October to support parents and families in their role as sexuality educators of their children and “Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month” each May. She is the coordinator of Advocates’ Rights. Respect. Responsibility.^® Campaign.

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Director, Public Policy

Janine Kossen is the Director of Public Policy at Advocates for Youth.  In this capacity, she is responsible for setting overall policy priorities for the organization, spearheading policymaker education efforts, and promoting rights-based U.S. foreign policy on youth sexual and reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS, family planning, comprehensive sexuality education, LGBTQ rights, and foreign assistance reform. Janine acts as the organization’s voice on these issues on Capitol Hill, and with the U.S. Administration, the United Nations, foreign governments, and colleague organizations. Janine came to Advocates in 2010 with more than a decade of experience working on advocacy and policy issues within the public health community, most recently as the Director of Federal Policy at Zero to Three, where she managed the organization’s federal early childhood policy agenda. Prior to that, Janine served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, West Africa, where she worked with regional and local health professionals, adolescent girls, and community-based youth organizations on programs related to HIV/AIDS, family planning, female genital cutting, child marriage, and life skills education. Janine holds a Juris Doctorate in international human rights law from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters of Public Health, with concentrations in health and human rights and maternal and child health, from Johns Hopkins University.

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Manager, Information Technology

J. has worked in the information technology field for more than a decade and has been Manager of Information Technology at Advocates for Youth since 2006.

Lottie McClorin
Program Manager, South Carolina Contraceptive Access Campaign

Lottie is the Senior Program Manager for the South Carolina Contraceptive Access Campaign (SCCAC), a broad public education awareness campaign.  She brings 15 years of extensive experience in public health with experience in health education, applied research, implanting efforts surrounding adolescent sexual and reproductive health and training/technical assistance (T/TA).  Lottie strongly believes that young people should have the right to access all forms of sexual and reproductive health services available and is a committed advocate for this cause. Prior to her work with Advocates For Youth, Lottie served as Project Director of Health for a CDC-funded grant to provide T/TA to AME churches throughout South Carolina where she facilitated health promotion and education sessions to empower members on how to live healthier by exercising and eating healthy.  She has also provided support to Black River Health Care, the Department of Health and Environmental Control on implementing community-specific healthcare approaches to increase behavioral changes in nutrition and breast-feeding, and sexual health issues, including the reduction of transmission of STDs and HIV/AIDS.

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State Strategies Coordinator

Hemly Ordόñez is the State Strategies Coordinator at Advocates for Youth. She works with local and state-based organizations and youth activists across the country to advocate for cultural and policy changes that improve and value young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights. She has been actively involved in youth civic engagement and advocacy with communities of color for more than 7 years. She has dedicated her life to community activism through building successful programs and education campaigns around gender, gender violence, educational access, immigration, civic engagement and youth empowerment. She holds a bachelors degree in Science and Technology in International Affairs with a concentration in International Health from Georgetown University and was the program coordinator at the Women’s Center and a co - founder of the Women Advancing Gender Equity Fellowship. Hemly is originally from Carson, California and proudly helps to represent the youth of South Los Angeles in the fight for effective sex education.

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Youth Activist Network Manager

Julia Reticker-Flynn is the Youth Activist Network Manager at Advocates for Youth, where she works with young people across the country to advocate for cultural and policy change that supports young people’s sexual health and rights.  Since starting at Advocates in 2010 she has trained over one thousand young people on grassroots organizing skills, mobilized thousands to take action on federal policy initiatives to protect young people’s sexual health and rights, and launched the 1 in 3 campaign to destigmatize abortion and promote access to abortion services.  Julia sits on the Board of Directors of Nursing Students for Choice.  She graduated from Georgetown University Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and certificate in Justice and Peace Studies.

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State Strategies Manager

Diana has been working on social justice issues for nearly a decade, primarily around issues that affect women, young people, people of color and the LGTBQ community. She has vast experience in program management, grassroots advocacy and state policy strategy. She previously worked with the Center for Women Policy Studies and assisted in coordinating educational and strategic planning programs for women state legislators and international Members of Parliament on women’s human rights issues. She is originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, where she was actively involved in grassroots activism, as well as the local arts community. Her passion lies in facilitating and creating intentional spaces for not only social justice, but also for creativity and self-expression. She holds an M.A. from George Washington University in Public Policy with a concentration in Women’'s Studies, as well as a B.A. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Sociology and Women’s Studies.

Abby Rosenstein
Program Manager, School Health Equity

Abby Rosenstein is the Program Manager of School Health Equity. She supports state and local education agencies, community-based organizations, and youth activists in working for school policies, programs, and environments that promote sexual health among young people. She was previously Advocates’ State Strategies Coordinator and worked with local and state-based organizations and youth activists across the country to advocate for cultural and policy change that supports young people’s sexual health and rights. Before coming to Advocates, Abby worked as Volunteer Coordinator and HIV Prevention Educator at Metro TeenAIDS. She has experience with youth work and sex education, and she is a certified HIV counselor and tester. Abby studied anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she wrote an honors thesis on the contemporary sexual abstinence movement in the United States. While at Wesleyan, she was an active member of AIDS and Sexual Health Awareness and the Wesleyan Clinic Escorts.

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Associate Director of the Adolescent Sexual Health Division

Ebony Ross is the Associate Director of the Adolescent Sexual Health Division. She has a wide range of experience in capacity building, evidence-based strategic planning, and program evaluation. Ebony brings more than twelve years of project management, workgroup facilitation, and organizational development in the fields of nonprofit management and public health to Advocates. Previously, Ebony served as a Senior Policy Associate for Altarum where she provided technical assistance to local and State health departments providing prevention and treatment services to HIV infected clients, to Federal and State teams as they worked to create and implement action plans to reduce homelessness in their States, and to State coalitions addressing health disparities in pediatric asthma. Prior to her work at Altarum, Ebony served as a Program Manager for the Academy for Educational Development. She managed numerous national multi-site projects, provided capacity building services to federally funded grantees, and completed needs assessments, work plans and technical assistance provision for over 175 minority community-based and faith-based organizations across the country as they worked to build their capacity to provide primary care services to HIV-positive clients in their communities. Ebony holds a Master of Arts degree in psychology from North Carolina Central University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Hampton University.

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Associate Director, Health Equity and Youth Empowerment

Trina Scott is the Program Manager for the Young Women of Color Initiative at Advocates for Youth. She has been actively involved in sexuality education and adolescent sexual health for more than 10 years. She has dedicated her life to community activism through educating, advocating, and delivering prevention messages related to health issue for youth and young adults. Trina holds a Bachelor's degree in Health Management/Nutrition from Howard University, and is currently working on a dual Masters/PhD degree in Human Sexuality at Widener University. In addition, she is among the first graduating class of The Black AIDS Institute’s African American HIV University Community Mobilization College. Trina is a member and active participant in a number of community organizations in the DC metropolitan area.

Samantha Shinberg
Program Associate

Samantha Shinberg has worked in the field of sexual health since high school, when she was a peer educator for Children’s Hospital’s youth group, TASA (Teens Against the Spread of AIDS) in her home city of Washington, DC. After her time with TASA, Sam continued to pursue her passion for sexuality education throughout her time at college, where she worked in the Sexual Health Department of the Student Wellness Center and became a certified HIV tester and counselor at Children’s Hospital in DC. At the end of her time at the University of Delaware, Sam earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies, with a double minor in Women’s Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. As a Project Associate for the Division of Adolescent Sexual Health at Advocates, Sam works to increase contraceptive access in high-risk communities through outreach, education, and new media strategies. She also works with the Center for Disease Control to implement evidence based programs through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative in nine different sites around the country. Prior to joining Advocates, Sam worked at SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) as a State Policy Intern.

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Deputy Director of Development

Jen is a fundraiser and organizational management specialist whose mantra is "no money, no mission." She managed multi-million dollar fundraising efforts for the American Red Cross where she led the team at the heart of the Red Cross' ability to have the funds needed to respond quickly and decisively to catastrophic events like the earthquakes in Japan and Haiti. In response to the Haiti earthquake alone, her team helped raise more than $350 million, including the launch of a mobile giving campaign which earned an unprecedented $31+ million, more than 1 million online transactions totaling $100+ million, and approximately $20 million in corporate support. At the age of 28, she was the Senior Vice President & Director of Development at the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA). At NARAL Pro-Choice America, she managed the logistics and finances of the 2004 March for Women's Lives, which brought more than a million supporters to Washington, DC. Jen is a proud alum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Economics and Political Science. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Carolina Women's Center.

India Walters
Program Associate, South Carolina Contraceptive Access Campaign

India became interested in Public Health in High School when she served as a Facilitator and Coordinator for the Building Cultural Bridges Program for her county. However, India began to streamline her interests in the field of sexual and reproductive health as an undergraduate student at the University of South Carolina, where she served as a facilitator, for D.I.V.A. Inc., an empowerment program to help young women make informed decisions and positive choices. In 2008, India became a Consultant for Clear Vision Seminars and Consulting, where she works as a Facilitator for Project L.E.A.D, a young adult female program where she educates on the importance of positive sexual health decision making, assist with teen pregnancy prevention research and facilitate health education sessions to prevent unplanned pregnancies. In 2009, prior to receiving a MPH in Health, Services, Policy, and Management from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, India began working as an Intern and then later became a Program Associate for the Advocates for Youth where she coordinates and oversees the SC Youth Activist Network program, conducts trainings and workshops to youth to increase awareness about contraceptives and teen pregnancy prevention, works to build and foster CBO, YSO, and campus-based partnerships, and has been very instrumental with the implementation of a New Media Campaign in SC by using new media strategies and technology to educate young people on their contraceptive options and reproductive health services rights.

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Administrative and Publications Assistant

Erica Yates has been Administrative and Publications Assistant at Advocates for Youth since 2005 and is a dedicated employee with a passion for working with young people. Erica writes OMG! With E, a relationship advice column on Amplify.