MPH Student Recognized As 2023 Social Justice Awardee

Josie Pinto is the founder and executive director of the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire, a statewide organization that provides financial, emotional, and logistical support to individuals seeking abortion services. The fund, which launched in February 2021, has helped more than 400 New Hampshire residents access abortion, and since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the organization has also funded patients from 24 states where abortion access has been restricted.

Pinto, who has taught a course on reproductive justice at the University of New Hampshire and is currently earning her master’s of public health at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, majored in public health and women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she served as president of the UMass Students for Reproductive Justice, and trained as a full-spectrum doula. Post-graduation, she worked with the Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund, as a health worker at Equality Health Center, and as the political director of New Hampshire Youth Movement.

POSTED 3/27/2023 AT 11:55 AM IN #publichealth #socialjustice