If/When/How Presents: Reproductive Justice 101 with Aisha Chaudhri
Room F
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Presenting student organizations: If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
Please join If/When/How in welcoming Aisha Chaudhri for a conversation on Reproductive Justice 101! This is a hybrid event and lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Aisha Chaudhri, (no pronouns) Transition Co-Director, December 2021 - July 2022
Aisha has been a social justice activist for over 23 years and has been working in nonprofits on Reproductive Justice (RJ) issues for almost 15 years. Aisha served as the co-chair of the board of directors at ICAH from 2019-2021 and as the Education Manager from 2013-2018. Aisha has worked with immigrant survivors of gender-based violence at a domestic violence shelter and with young people around sexual health, rights, and identities to create training programs on how to provide trauma-responsive social services and health care. Most recently Aisha was the RJ Manager at EverThrive Illinois leading the Contraceptive Justice Project, a community-driven contraceptive access project rooted in the RJ framework, and RJ-centered legislative and administrative policy advocacy. Aisha is also a steering committee member of the American Society for Emergency Contraception (ASEC) and was recognized in 2015 by the Cook County Commission on Women’s Issues as the Peggy A. Montes Unsung Heroine At Large awardee. Aisha’s commitment to anti-oppression work stays rooted in the experiences of marginalized communities including Aisha’s own queer, gender nonconforming, femme, Punjabi, immigrant, and Muslim identities.
This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.