Community and Volunteer Engagement Accomplice

Originally hailing from the vibrant city of New Orleans, Louisiana, Azriela (pronounced AZ-ree-El-lah) made the move to Richmond three years ago to pursue a Master of Social Work degree at VCU. Since then, they have truly embraced Virginia as home. As a transmasculine individual, they hold values that are centered around TGNC, BIPOC, and Reproductive Justice community causes.

When not immersed in professional endeavors, they enjoy traveling to national parks with their partner and two cats, running a photography and graphic design collective with their friends, volunteering with JMU’s Speech team, discovering new restaurants, learning new languages, and studying birth charts.

Their goals revolve around fostering meaningful connections with volunteers and supporting them in their journey toward leadership and development within the Reproductive Justice realm. Ultimately, they aspire to pursue a PhD in Social Work, further expanding their knowledge and impact in this field.

Caller Support Co-Coordinator

Billie Kate is a lover of herbs, outdoors, writing, dreaming, scheming, and holding things in their hands. They’ve always been a bit of a space cadet, but that’s just the real world can’t keep up with all of this imaginative brainpower! As intake/caller coordinator with RRFP BK works to eliminate our clients barriers to getting to their appointments. This can look like scheduling ubers and lyfts, booking hotels, pledging funds for the cost of the appointment, and driving folks themself.

They got into this work from being a full spectrum doula with a focus in birth, abortion, and loss. They have met folks in so many different situations by driving folks from all across the state and within the city. They’ve been in Richmond since 2015 and have found a home here. Reproductive Justice work is their political home. And they’ve found community in Queer Southerners doing all types of work that is so interconnected like food justice, decarceral justice, language justice, and environmental justice. The work we are doing is so interconnected. They love their mycelial network of Queers reaching all through the Southeast US. They’re from South Carolina, live in Richmond, and they have both blood and chosen family all throughout the South.

Language Access Coordinator

Giada (pronounced JiA-DAH) is excited, proud and nervous to be RRFP’s first Language Access Coordinator! Giada is a full spectrum doula and abortion activist committed to the struggle for GLOBAL reproductive justice. She’s a nomad, mother, fighter, maker, partner, and calls many places home. Giada hails from a matriarchal Sicilian family that immigrated to the projects of Genoa, Italy. But Giada built a new family based on a praxis of community and radical social critique in the squats of Barcelona and Latin America. While Italian is Giada’s mother tongue, her mom will tell you she speaks Spanish better. A mother of two radical kids, Giada believes parenting is all about nurturing strong, self-respecting/self-loving humans with keen understandings of solidarity, justice, and mutual support. On her off time you can find Giada rolling in a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym somewhere, perfecting her chokehold on some patriarchal chump. Whether it be on the mat, on the phone, or in the streets Giada doesn’t back down from the fight for justice.

Development Coordinator

Keisha (she/her) is an educated and tested supporter of birth, parenting, and the many different ways families exist in an ever-changing society in America... She's also a self-proclaimed Game of Thrones nerd and speaks 3 words in High Valyrian. Her work centers around impacting black maternal mortality and morbidity disparities in her community of Richmond, Virginia through a reproductive justice core and foundation. Keisha currently supports families as a full-spectrum doula, childbirth educator, birth assistant, online community facilitator, mom, partner, and friend.

Operations Coordinator

Natalie is RRFP’s first Operations Coordinator, and was stoked on the chance grow into and alongside the collective — her priorities center the cocreation of transparent processes and horizontal structures that help critical abortion work run smoothly and give folks more space to dedicate to both rest and the radical imaginary. Support roles and behind the scenes logistics fulfill her but she’s always down to collab on ways to share resources, eliminate barriers, disrupt violent systems, and redistribute wealth. As a disabled person, she feels strongly about accessibility and disability justice. As someone with a deep appreciation for feeling small in nature, the commons and environmental justice are close to her heart. As an organizer with Richmond SONG, she believes reproductive justice is foundational to abolition and building the world we deserve. She’s a double Gemini with an irrational number of tabs open and her other loves include: the South, illustration, zines and poli/pop ed, chosen family, mutual aid and collective care, communication and boundaries, cooking too much food for other people, big leaves, being in queer community, and porch-sitting with her neurotic dog.

Fundraising & Sustainability Coordinator

Pegauh (pronounced peg-aw) is a community organizer, tinkerer, and problem solver. She thrives in people centered roles with wiggle room to think outside the box - she’s forever cooking up ways to bring people together for a shared goal. Pegauh believes these solutions don’t lie in the structures we live in, but in ones we create ourselves. Coupled with her passion for community autonomy and harm reduction, Pegauh found her home at RRFP. She enjoys building affinity groups and spaces in marginalized communities grounded in collective care, refuge, healing, and joy.

When she isn’t organizing, you can find Pegauh jamming on the piano, or belting her heart out at karaoke. Art makes her happy, as do bright colors, nature, and sci-fi everything. Other things that bring Pegauh joy include morbid humor, absurd memes, fries, skill sharing, and figuring out how stuff works.