Choice USA entrusts the leaders we work with to do exactly that -- to lead.

Below you'll find a list of some of our trainers who came to Choice USA through our trainings, programs, events, or Board. These are the people who work with Choice USA staff to develop and deliver our leadership development trainings to other groups around the country. They are a top-notch group from all across the country who are doing great work across movements everyday.

Suzy Day is a Senior at the University of Missouri majoring in Women's and Gender Studies. She is committed to creating the next generation of women leaders and defying the negative rhetoric of her small home farm town. This passion has driven her to serve as President of her sorority, co-found The Women's and Gender Studies Organization on her campus, and work with her local Women's Center. Suzy is a graduate of the 2006 National Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute and trainer with Choice USA.

Andrea DeChellis is a reproductive justice activist and social worker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and certificates in Latin American Studies and Women's Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, where she first got involved with Choice USA. While there she orgazined with Students for Reproductive Freemom to win a key victory for access to emergency contraception. She then went on to become the Trainings Coordinator for the United States Student Association in Washington, DC where she ran the GrassRoots Organizing Weekends (including the Choice GROWs) and Electoral Trainings. Andres is currently a counselor at Women's Health Services/Planned Parenthood of Westerna Pennsylvania and Program Director for New Voices Pittsburgh, the local affiliate of SisterSong, the national women of color reproductive health collective.

Alexandra DelValle is an Oberlin College graduate and holds a B.A. in Women’s Studies and Sociology. While at Oberlin, she received the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship, and concentrated in Puerto Rican feminism and nationalism. She has considerable experience in the social justice movement, having worked with feminist organizations such as NOW-NYC and NARAL Pro-Choice New York as well as with labor and anti-gun violence groups. In college, Alexandra was an active member and leader in the Latina/o student community, and was also a counselor and teacher with Oberlin’s Sexual Information Center. At the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Alexandra coordinated the Latinas Organizing for Leadership and Advocacy (LOLA) trainings and Latina Advocacy Networks. She also serves on the Pro-Choice Public Education Project's Young Women's Leadership Council. Alexandra is the recent recipient of Choice USA’s Generation Award for Commitment to Leadership for 2006.

Meredith Golden is a student at the University of North Carolina at ChapelHill. She is the Vice President of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and was the president of the UNC-CH safer sex squad in 2006. Meredith is passionate about comprehensive sex education, reproductive justice, and breast cancer awareness and research. She is a graduate of the 2006 National Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute and trainer for Choice USA's The History of Choice: Future of Justice training. She has participated in the Student Global AIDS Campaign and UNC's Honor Court Outreach Program. Go Heels!

Jessica Haro is a member of the Choice USA board of directors, and the past president of Stanford Students for Choice, a Choice USA affiliate. As president, she ran the Stanford campaign to defeat Proposition 73, a ballot initiative for parental notification of a minor's abortion which would have written a definition of life beginning at conception into the California constitution. Jessica received the Choice USA Member Award for Excellence in Organizing at the 2006 Generation-to-Generation Celebration for her work on this campaign, in which she mobilized more than 3,000 students. A graduate of the 2005 Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute, she is also a peer counselor at Stanford's Sexual-Health Peer Resource Center, a residential Peer Health Educator, and a fellow in Stanford's Center on Women and Gender at the Roosevelt Institution, a progressive student think tank. Jessica is 21 years old, a senior at Stanford University, and will graduate in spring 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Communications.

Katie Kramer is a Junior at Loyola University in Chicago studying Political Science and Women's Studies. Katie has been involved in the reproductive rights movement since high school. In college, she founded the College Advocates for Reproductive Education (CARE), the first group of its kind at her Catholic university. In 2006, Katie was named Planned Parenthood's "Young Volunteer of the Year" and is a graduate of Choice USA's 2006 Midwest Regional Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute. Katie is spending the Spring 2007 semester in Washington, DC working on the Hill as she aspires to one day become a United States Senator.

Eddy Morales is the Deputy Director of Leadership Development at the Center for Community Change, where he is helping to develop Generation Change, an ambitious program to recruit, train, and nurture new talent in community organizing and the nonprofit sector, particularly from underrepresented communities, and to elevate the field of community organizing and non profits. Prior to working at the Center, Eddy served as the elected President of the U.S. Student Association, the nations oldest, largest, and most inclusive student organization representing millions of students on Capitol Hill, the Department of Education and the White House. During his tenure, he coordinated several of USSA’s most aggressive campaigns to defeat some of the largest proposed cuts to education spending and key programs in the history of the Department of Education, elevated the organization’s presence in national coalitions and across the country,  and built the organization’s field capacity.  Eddy also raised over $1.5 million in his last year to fund a 5-year strategic plan process and its implementation. Eddy serves on the boards of several national youth organizations including Choice USA, the United States Student Association and the Generational Alliance, a coalition of nine youth organizations.

Melody Nelson is a Wimmin's Studies Major at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A native of Los Angeles, California, Melody divides most of hir time in Las Vegas between school and developing new ways to facilitate discussion around reproductive issues with her group, the Pleasure Educations Resource for the Vegas VAlley (PERVV). Zhe is a black queer activist who is dedicated to eradicating all forms of homophobia and transphobia using the reproductive justice framework. Zhe is a participant in the Southwest Partnership with Choice USA and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and a graduate of Choice USA's 2006 National Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute.

Erica Smiley is the National Coordinator of the Young Communist League-USA, a multi-racial, working class youth organization that is committed to a better world through socialism.  She has held positions with Jobs with Justice and was the National Field Director of Choice USA, a pro-choice organization focusing primarily on youth access to reproductive healthcare. She is originally from North Carolina, and joined the social justice movement organizing around affirmative action, financial aid, and to prevent the building of prisons and juvenile facilities through a broader statewide youth coalition. Smiley sits on the National Committee of the Communist Party- USA.