Lesley is a theater artist and event producer. Her theater background includes work as a playwright, composer, sound designer, and director. She is co-director of Story House Ithaca, an organization that brings people together to share, study, create, and enjoy stories in all their forms. She co-founded and continues to be an organizer of Porchfest, a festival that began in Ithaca in 2007 and now takes place in more than 180 cities across North America. She worked for over twenty years at the Kitchen Theatre Company, working on dozens of productions in various capacities and helping to grow the organization. Lesley is the 2023-2024 winner of the Debra S. Newman ‘02 Cornell Tradition Community Service Award. Her play based on The Turnaway Study will have its world premiere at the Kitchen Theatre Company in May, 2024.

Diana is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on people’s lives. She led the Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion. Dr. Foster’s work has demonstrated the effect of subsidized contraceptives and dispensing a one year supply of contraception in reducing the incidence of unintended pregnancy. She is the author of over 120 scientific papers as well as the 2020 Scribner book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She did a TED talk in October 2023 that has been viewed over 400,000 times since its release in January 2024. She is currently collaborating with scientists on a Nepal Turnaway Study and with scientists from across the country on a study of the health, legal and economic consequences of the end of Roe. In 2021, she received the Harriet B. Presser Award for sustained research contributions to the study of gender and demography from the Population Association of America. She was named a 2023 MacArthur Foundation fellow and one of ten people who shaped science in 2022 by the journal Nature. Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, her MA and PhD in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University.

Daniel is an Emmy-winning producer, writer and creative strategist. He is the originator and a producer of THE JANES, an HBO Original Documentary, which premiered at Sundance, was Oscar-shortlisted and went on to win 3 Emmys - Outstanding Social Issue, Best Director & Best Documentary. He is currently in production on a documentary series about the Seattle music scene of the 80’s & 90’s (a history of Grunge), directed by Oscar winners Daniel Lindsey & TJ Martin, under the umbrella of Imagine Entertainment and World Wide Pants. Previously, Daniel was a consulting producer on TNT’s AMERICAN RACE documentary series featuring Charles Barkley, the Netflix documentary Series AFFLICTED, and the documentary film God & Country, directed by Dan Partland and Produced by Rob Reiner.

Prior to his producing career, Daniel was the co-founder and President of Exopolis, an award-winning marketing agency and creative studio; best known for their motion graphics and web design work, which included the network launch of NICKTOONS, brand campaigns for Microsoft’s Xbox, and the global launches of both the original iPhone and the iPod “colors” campaigns for Apple. Exopolis’ clients included: Universal Pictures, Disney, WB, Sony Pictures, Dreamworks, Sony Records, Universal Music Group, Nike, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Xbox, Delta Airlines, Formula 1, VH1, HBO, Cinemax, TCM, IFC, Sundance Channel, A&E and many others. Exopolis launched in 2001, grew to 40 people, and was acquired by Austin Ventures in 2010.

Annabel Sheinberg spent the last 15 years in the fight for reproductive rights and health in Utah - She served as the VP for External Affairs for Planned Parenthood Action Council of Utah and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. Her areas of focus include sex education, advocacy, organizing and development. She has been engaged in community and youth development work for her entire career beginning in large urban settings and for the last 25 years in the Mountain West. Sheinberg received awards from PPFA for Community Education and Excellence in Diversity and Equity for an anti- bullying/anti harassment program that trained educators in Utah. She is deeply committed to developing the next generation of diverse, insightful, and impactful movement leaders.