Fatimah Gifford – Executive Director
Fatimah Gifford (she/her) is a committed advocate who brings extensive experience in reproductive health, rights, and justice as well as organizational leadership to her role as Executive Director of Provide.
Staff
Provide’s staff live in and love the communities in which they work. Our expert trainers have the benefit of training and support experience in substance use services, HIV service delivery, domestic violence case management and safety net health services. This experience roots us in a deep compassion for health care workers and the people they serve, and positions us to be effective in engaging and supporting these teams.
Dannielle Shaw, JD – Deputy Director of Organizational Strategy
Dannielle (Dannie) Shaw (she/her) ensures that internal infrastructure, systems, and processes are effective and in alignment with Provide’s core values.
Michelle Dowell-Vest – Deputy Director of Finance & Administration
Michelle Dowell-Vest (she/her) is a seasoned finance, administration, and operations professional with over 25 years of experience in various sectors.
Dionne Alexander – Executive Assistant & Board Liaison
Dionne Alexander (she/her) brings a wealth of organizational expertise and a passion for advancing healthcare access. With a background in education, Dionne is dedicated to supporting Provide’s mission of offering stigma-free abortion education and resources. In her role, she will manage executive schedules, facilitate board communications, and ensure the seamless operation of the organization, meeting community needs with compassion and care.
Tiffany Collins-Webb – Trainer & Outreach Specialist
Tiffany Collins-Webb (she/her) advances Provide’s abortion referrals initiative by developing and supporting state and regional teams around program implementation, while proactively contributing to the leadership and growth of the organization’s abortion referrals work.
Ann Dills, CSW – Technical Assistance Manager
Ann Dills (she/her) leads the development and implementation of strategies that build provider and site capacity to compassionately and proactively respond to their clients’ needs around abortion and other stigmatized services.
Monika Gilliard, CHE – Individual Giving Manager
Monika Gilliard (she/her) cultivates the growth of the major donor program within Provide’s Fund Development department. As Individual Giving Manager, she acts as an ambassador for Provide within the community, working in conjunction with the Director of Development and other staff to represent the organization’s philanthropic interests with supporters throughout the US.
Sara Hunter – Development Specialist
Sara Hunter (she/her) provides fundraising support, administrative operations, and task coordination within a growing Fund Development department, including support for Provide’s individual giving, major donor, and institutional grants programs.
Danielle Hurd – Outreach and Training Manager
Danielle Hurd (they/them) is a southerner, a queer Black Feminist, and a Reproductive Justice advocate with a decade of experience in youth organizing and reproductive health/rights/justice training, education & management.
Tara Johnson, M.Ed. – Training Design & Delivery Manager
Tara Johnson (they/them) designs and delivers dynamic in-person and virtual trainings that incorporate anti-racism and anti-oppression concepts, frameworks, and tools to a variety of diverse audiences.
Jenny Koza, MSW – Evaluation and Learning Specialist
Jenny Koza (she/her) specializes in trauma-informed research and evaluation for nonprofit organizations. She believes that research and evaluation should center people’s humanity: numbers are an important part of the process–and they lose their effectiveness, and can cause a lot of harm, if we forget they reflect actual humans and their experiences. She approaches her work from an equity and anti-racist lens and has over 10 years of experience in the field.
Becca Lee-Simpson – Director of Marketing and Communications
Becca Lee-Simpson (she/her/hers) is a storyteller and agent for change who believes in challenging interlocking systems of oppression and working together for radical liberation. As a strategic communications leader, she seeks to cultivate learning and growth and create spaces where humans can thrive as their authentic selves.
Low, S. – Technical Assistance Specialist
Low (they/them) is an experienced educator and advocate focused on building provider capacity to assist clients through the development of technical assistance tools and the creation and facilitation of engaging training programs.
Crystal Kwan Norwood – Communications Manager
Crystal Kwan Norwood (they/them) is passionate about creating engaging content that supports reproductive freedom and justice. They bring nearly 20 years of diverse communications, branding, and marketing experience to their role in supporting outreach to Provide’s stakeholder audiences and funders.
Efe Osaren – Training Support & Engagement Specialist, Virtual Programs
Efe Osaren (she/her) is a direct-entry trained traditional midwife who has been working in holistic birthwork since 2014. She has completed her training and certification as a full spectrum Doula with DONA, The Doula Project, and Ancient Song Doula Services.
Dominique-Laura Pierce – Director of Development
Dominique-Laura Pierce (she/her) holds over 15 years of experience in fundraising and development. In her career she has worked to expand development processes for organizations ranging in size from startup to nearly $300M in annual organizational budgets. Her skills and successes include multi-million dollar individual and institutional investor and donor requests, grant writing, fundraising strategy, database management, pipeline creation, internal/external communications, and capital campaign management.
Lauren Pring, MPH – Director of Program Evaluation
Lauren Pring (she/her) is a passionate Evaluation and Learning professional who believes that effective evaluation is critical to help solve difficult problems, advance equity, and effect social change. She feels that data has immense potential to either do harm or advance justice, and that evaluation and data professionals have a responsibility to recognize that power and work toward equity and justice in all facets of their work. She approaches her work from a feminist and equity lens, and has 13 years of experience implementing both rigorous and creative approaches to evaluation.
Ondine Quinn, MSW, CSW, CSE – Senior Director of Programs
Ondine Quinn (she/her or they/them) oversees the creation, execution and implementation of new programmatic content, pilot programming, and technical assistance strategies.
Max Winbigler – Executive and Program Assistant
Max Winbigler (they/them) provides administrative, logistical, and operational support to Provide’s Deputy Director of Organizational Strategy and programs division.
Board
Provide benefits from a stable and engaged Board of Directors made up of state, national, and global leaders in women’s and community health, including service providers, administrators, policy experts, and advisors.
Fatimah Gifford – Executive Director
Fatimah Gifford (she/her) is a committed advocate who brings extensive experience in reproductive health, rights, and justice as well as organizational leadership to her role as Executive Director of Provide.
Jamarr Brown – President
Jamarr Brown (he/him) has over a decade of experience working as a campaign strategist, leadership trainer, and nonprofit leader. Now, he is making history as the first-ever Black executive director of the Texas Democratic Party. Prior to this role, Jamarr served as the Director of Civic Engagement Programs at re:power, stewarding partnerships with progressive civic engagement and labor groups and overseeing a portfolio of programs to train and support organizers, campaign managers and staff, and candidates.
Cheryl Prelow – Treasurer
Cheryl Prelow (she/her) offers more than 25 years of extraordinary success in a series of high level roles at top tier companies that include Prism Health North Texas, Dallas County Medical Society, Texas Health Resources, Health Midwest Medical Group, Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center, Detroit Medical Center, and Truman Medical Center. Currently, Cheryl is providing strategic and operational consulting services for local nonprofits that address the determinants of health by focusing on social justice and race equity issues.
Bridget Bohannon, MPH – Clerk
Bridget is a community organizer, health justice advocate, and program director. She is passionate about abortion access and more broadly health justice for populations and communities excluded from and/or actively harmed by the health care system. Bridget received her BA in Sociology from Villanova University and her Master’s in Public Health, focusing on policy and administration, from UCLA.
Kate Boulton – Director
Kate Boulton (she/her) is a health and human rights attorney committed to challenging the criminalization and punishment of marginalized communities, including people seeking abortion and other stigmatized care.
Dione Friends – Director
Dione Friends is the Campaign Director at a project of The New Venture Fund. Dione previously worked for Equality Federation as Director of Communications where she oversaw the Equality Federation’s branding and messaging.
Alexis Hicks – Director
Alexis Hicks is an advocate, storyteller, and community organizer. Today, she serves as the Director of Advocacy and Policy with the Mississippi Early Learning Alliance (MELA). In her role, she supports coalitions to advocate for systems change to improve early learning and child development outcomes in Mississippi.
Adrienne Weil – Director
As Senior Vice President, Member Engagement & Services at American Hotel & Lodging Association, Adrienne Weil (she/her) is responsible for hotelier membership and revenue growth.