Contributor

Monica Raye Simpson

Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective

Monica Raye Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Monica has organized extensively against human rights violations, the prison industrial complex, racism and intolerance, and the systematic physical and emotional violence inflicted upon African American women and the African American LBGT community in the South. She was also recently named a New Civil Rights Leader by Essence Magazine.