Destiny Lopez

Devoted to ensuring that young women of color have access to the full range of reproductive rights, Destiny Lopez directs NARAL Pro-Choice New York’s Emergency Contraception (EC) Access Campaign, its Latino Reproductive Rights Project, and the Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign (a nationwide EC education and outreach effort) -- a remarkable range of responsibilities. Over ten years ago, as a college freshman, Destiny conducted her first grassroots organizing campaign when her college’s pro-choice organization successfully lobbied the school administration to allow condom availability on campus. Since then, she co-founded Girls CAN, which empowers young women living in Brooklyn to deliver peer-education workshops and plan community service events. As the Director for the Emergency Contraception Access Campaign, Destiny has built a large and active state-wide coalition committed to educating New Yorkers about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of EC. Destiny has also worked to reduced barriers to the timely availability of EC through promoting policies that enable qualified pharmacists and registered nurses to dispense EC. Destiny has worked with the Coalition and state officials to make New York a national leader in funding EC outreach and education. Through the Latino Reproductive Rights Project, Destiny partners with the Hispanic Federation on a long-term campaign to educate Latinos about, and shape perspectives on, reproductive health and choice. See: www.prochoiceny.org.
September 2005