Ariel Eastburn McCormick is a Research Coordinator with the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) and 2023 Bixby Advocacy and Communications Fellow. She received her M.A. in Applied Anthropology (with a focus in Medical Anthropology) from Humboldt State where she conducted a qualitative study of maternal health care access in Santa Clara County. Ariel has been a longtime advocate of Reproductive Justice through her past work with menstrual equity organizations and as a full-spectrum doula-in-training.