Charley the abortion chatbot is created and maintained by a passionate team of reproductive health experts and abortion advocates, with input from partner organizations, doctors, and lawyers. Our goal is to provide abortion seekers in all 50 states with up-to-date information so they can navigate their options.

CREATORS 

Bianca Sembrano 
Administrative Lead 
Bianca provides project management and administrative support to Charley. With a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Bianca is the former Chief of Staff at Clinical Health Network.

Cecile Richards 
Cofounder
Cecile is the former President of Planned Parenthood and a lifelong champion of reproductive freedom for all. For Charley, she oversees legal, political, and policy matters and leads fundraising efforts.

Frank Rosado 
Technology Advisor 
Frank is a nationally recognized engineering and information security professional. His career has focused on designing, building, and maintaining secure digital systems for organizations such as Coinbase and Planned Parenthood.

Kaori Sueyoshi
Partnerships Lead
Kaori is committed to supporting organizations dedicated to social good. She is a Strategy & Operations Consultant for M+A Hotline, advisor to Mayday Health, and previously was the Director of Innovation at Planned Parenthood.

Kiana Tipton 
Executive Director of Projects 
Kiana is a digital and product marketing strategist, with roots in online advocacy and community organizing. Most recently, she led the digital marketing efforts for Teach For America's Teacher Pay Initiative. 

Lillian Tamayo 
Latinx Outreach Lead 
Lillian is the former President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida, and has spent over two decades defending abortion rights. She is a nationally recognized advocate for the LGBTQ+ and Latinx communities.

Nicole Cushman
Subject Matter Lead 
Nicole is a passionate advocate for sex education and a public health and nonprofit management expert who has held leadership positions at Planned Parenthood and Answer. She oversees content development for Charley.

Tom Subak
Cofounder
Tom previously led Planned Parenthood’s digital department for 12 years, overseeing the development of the world's largest online resource for reproductive healthcare. With Charley, he aims to transform healthcare through innovation.

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS 

Charley is supported by the NWHN and these trusted partner organizations, two of which the NWHN fiscally sponsors:

Abortion Freedom Fund
AidAccess
ineedana.com 
M+A Hotline 
National Network of Abortion Funds 
Plan C 
reprocare
repro legal helpline 

MEDICAL ADVISORS 

Angeline Ti, MD 
Dr. Ti is a family physician and family planning specialist in Atlanta, Georgia. She serves on the clinical committee for the Reproductive Health Access Project and is a guest researcher in the Division of Reproductive Health at the CDC.

April Lockley, DO 
Dr. Lockley is a family medicine physician in New York. She is the medical director for the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline and a founding member of a collective of family medicine physicians of color who provide abortion care.

Nery Guerrero, MD
Dr. Guerrero is a family medicine physician with advanced training in abortion care. The first in her family to graduate college, let alone medical school, Dr. Guerrero values community driven missions which foster growth and trust.

COLLABORATORS 

The following companies help make Charley possible: 

Berlin Rosen 
Defensible
manatt
WORK&CO

Charley was designed with your privacy and safety in mind. Charley will never ask you for information like your name, address, email, or phone number, and it won't share your information with any third party. All conversations are deleted from our system hourly.

The information, including facts and statistics, that Charley shares with you has been checked by medical and legal experts, and the partners and directories it links to are all trusted reproductive justice and abortion advocacy organizations.

In most cases you can’t get in trouble for using Charley to get more information about abortion or to do research. But whether or not you can get in trouble depends on where you live and whether or not you go on to get an actual abortion.

In rare cases, for example, prosecutors in some states where abortion is banned, may arrest people who get an abortion or who help a pregnant person get an abortion. Although it is somewhat unlikely, there is a small chance that these prosecutors could bring evidence of you having used Charley into court to help make their case.

However, there are steps you can take to protect your privacy. When using a shared computer or phone, some people who don’t want others to know they looked at Charley or abortion information, remove the page from their browser history or use “incognito” or private browsing to look at abortion information. You can learn more about this at reprolegalhelpline.org/internet-safety.

Charley is connected to iNeedAnA’s database of abortion providers, which is updated daily. It also gathers data from the Abortion Policy API, which integrates research and analyses conducted by experts at the Guttmacher Institute. The chatbot automatically pulls the latest information on state gestational age limits, nearby clinics, and the distance to reach them.

All the other information Charley shares has been vetted by experienced reproductive health experts, doctors, and lawyers. As the abortion access landscape changes, our team is constantly updating Charley’s messages to stay as accurate and relevant as possible. 

We want Charley to be available alongside as many abortion resources and pro-abortion organizations as possible. Our highest priority is preserving the privacy, security, and anonymity of abortion seekers that use the tool.

Soon, you can take the first step towards becoming a host partner by emailing us.

You can support Charley by writing about the chatbot in your publication or simply by sharing this post or www.chatwithcharley.org with your friends, family, and followers on social media.