Renee Bracey Sherman is an abortion activist and co-author of Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve. She is currently a PhD student at American University’s School of Communication.

Renee Bracey Sherman is a reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, and co-author of LIBERATING ABORTION: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve. For a decade she led We Testify, an organization she founded dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions. With her co-author Regina Mahone, Renee co-hosted The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion, a podcast from The Meteor. She served as an executive producer of Ours to Tell, an award-winning documentary elevating the voices of people who’ve had abortions. Renee is currently a PhD student at American University’s School of Communication.

Renee Bracey Sherman is an award-winning reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, and co-author of LIBERATING ABORTION: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve. For a decade she led We Testify, an organization she founded dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions. With her co-author Regina Mahone, Renee co-hosted The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion, a podcast from The Meteor. She served as an executive producer of Ours to Tell, an award-winning documentary elevating the voices of people who’ve had abortions. Her writing can be found in a variety of newspapers around the world and several books including Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements, Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade, and Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Hailed as the ‘Beyoncé of Abortion Storytelling,' for over a decade Renee has been recognized as one of the most vital voices in elevating the conversation about abortion experiences and using creative and innovative strategies to shift the conversation centering Black people, people of color, and other marginalized identities. She popularized the phrase “everyone loves someone who had an abortion,” coined ‘abortionsplaining,’ and created the #AskAboutAbortion campaign which led to presidential candidates being asked questions about their plans to increase abortion access. In 2022, Renee made history by becoming the first person to testify before Congress and describe how someone can self-manage an abortion with pills. Renee is currently a PhD student at American University’s School of Communication.