Eshauna Smith

Armed with the goal of educating and empowering young women to become the next generation of feminist leaders, Eshauna Smith plays an active role in the reproductive rights movement. As the Program Manager for the Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP), Eshauna supervises popular education, research, media, and outreach activities oriented toward young people, and develops tools and resources for the public at-large. By emphasizing advocacy at the grassroots level, Eshauna’s work has prompted many young women to take an active role in protecting their reproductive rights and engaging others in this cause. Eshauna also helped create PEP’s report, She Speaks: African American and Latino Young Women on Reproductive Health and Rights (see the March Women’s Health Activist). Bringing forth the experiences of young women of color yields fresh insight into women’s strength, their capacity to act, and the centrality of their perspectives. Eshauna’s work recognizes differences among women of varying races, ethnicities, and classes, while simultaneously uniting them through shared experiences that have been effective in creating an all-encompassing community for women of all ages. See: www.protectchoice.org.
September 2005