Kiersten Gillette-Pierce

Kiersten Gillette-Pierce

Kiersten “Gillette” Gillette-Pierce is a 2017-2019 Peace Corps Extension Volunteer, specializing in maternal and child health. A former research assistant for the Women’s Initiative at American Progress, where she focused on women’s health and rights, Gillette received her BS in Public Health and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at American University. Follow her @futuregynogee

Black Femmes’ Needs Are Ignored in Health-Care Debates, Yet They Have Much to Lose

Kiersten Gillette-Pierce

Black people in the United States are among the most discriminated against when it comes to health care—which is further exacerbated when they are not a cisgender man.

New Reproductive Justice Guide Is a Powerful Vision for the Future

Kiersten Gillette-Pierce

Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger help prove in Reproductive Justice: An Introduction that while choice is important, it is but a bullet point on a larger list of human rights issues.