Our Leadership
Flor Hunt is a Peruvian-American advocate for sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. She currently serves as Executive Director of TEACH, a Bay Area based organization that works to develop the next generation of diverse reproductive health champions through abortion training and mentorship.
Flor has worked with a variety of international feminist organizations over the last 15 years to support local partners through philanthropy, capacity building and coalition building. She spent close to a decade at Fos Feminista, (formerly IPPF/WHR), working with partners across Latin America to advance sexual and reproductive rights and justice through intersectional advocacy and multi-country social accountability efforts. While at Fos Feminista, Flor developed the methodology and led a 25 country regional social monitoring initiative, Mira Que Te Miro, to monitor implementation of the Montevideo Consensus in Latin America and Caribbean, in collaboration with eight other regional networks, two universities and over 100 local NGOs.
Flor attended Cabrillo College, holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies from UC Berkeley, and a Master of International and Public Affairs from Princeton. She is a Women’s Policy Institute Alum from the class of 2020 and is a 2022 RHRJ Rockwood Fellow. She currently sits on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom. Flor was born in Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Incas, raised in Santa Cruz, California, and is bilingual in English and Spanish, fluent in Portuguese and speaks French. She is raising a small human, loves to travel, dance and surf, and eat her husband’s delicious meals.
Dr. Aisha Wagner, MD serves at Medical Director of the TEACH Program. She graduated from the UCSF-SFGH FM residency and completed both the Reproductive Health Access Project fellowship in NYC and the Leadership Training Academy through Physicians for Reproductive Health–both focusing on advocacy for equity and access within the abortion world.
She currently works at an FQHC in Los Angeles, contracts for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, and is the consulting physician for Choix, a teleMAB clinic based in California. As a Black physician she draws pride in serving communities of color and strives to bring a reproductive justice framework into her learning, teaching and patient care.
Dr. Wagner did her undergraduate studies at University of Puget Sound, attended medical school at University of Southern California and completed residency at the University of California San Francisco Family and Community Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Suzan Goodman, MD MPH serves as the Curriculum Director of the TEACH Program, an active trainer and an Advisory Board Member after serving as TEACH Program Director from 2005-2015. She was a co-founder of TEACH in 2003, its CREATE Program in 2012 and its Fellowship in 2013. She is a developer and editor of the Early Abortion Training Workbook, TEACH’s comprehensive online curriculum used in 50 states and throughout the world.
Dr. Goodman also serves as National Training Director for the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health’s Beyond the Pill Program, where she has implemented training programs improving access and equity for thousands of healthcare providers including community clinics, school health centers, public health agencies, hospitals, and peer education groups.
Throughout a lifelong passion for improving reproductive health provision and training, Dr. Goodman has served as a member PPFA’s National Medical Committee, Planned Parenthood Director of Medical Education from 2003 – 2007, and Training Director for the California Health Workforce Pilot Project from 2005 – 2007, which demonstrated safety and efficacy of aspiration abortions provided by Advanced Practice Clinicians, and informed state policy change. She has also provided expert testimony to inform state policy on APC abortion provision in Montana. Currently, her research interests include training and predictors of reproductive health provision in primary care specialties, contraceptive access and equity, highly effective and emergency contraceptive methods, systems-based innovation, and translational science.
Dr. Goodman continues to be active in policy work with PRH and CAFP, where she has coauthored and testified on multiple state and national resolutions. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at the UCSF Bixby Center and Department of Family and Community Medicine. She did her undergraduate training at Hampshire College, attended Stanford Medical School, completed an MPH and Research Fellowship at UC Berkeley, and a Faculty Development Fellowship at UCSF.
Dr. Mai Fleming has had a vested interest in reproductive healthcare and family planning since her undergraduate studies in Gender and Sexuality, and volunteer work at Planned Parenthood during that time. She believes that access to full scope, trauma informed, and gender inclusive reproductive health care including abortion care was key to fostering justice and equity for people across racial, gender, and socioeconomic spectrums.
During residency, she participated in CREATE and in the following year completed the TEACH Fellowship as well as the Physicians for Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy, where she learned the importance of legislative, media, and organizational advocacy and began to develop and hone the skills necessary to continue that work and to teach others to do the same.
In addition to teaching abortion care through TEACH and working to expand its training curriculum, she teaches early ultrasound and MAB skills in the UCSF residency program and flies to provide abortion care in the Midwest. She also provides medication abortion gender affirming care across multiple states via telehealth.
Dr. Fleming grew up outside of Chicago, attended NYU for undergrad, and Jefferson Medical College for her MD. She completed her residency in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF based at San Francisco General Hospital.
Dr. Sarah McNeil, MD serves as Fellowship Director of the TEACH Program and Core Faculty at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, where she leads the reproductive health curriculum. Dr. McNeil co-founded TEACH’s advanced training and leadership program and subsequently was chosen as the inaugural TEACH Leadership Fellow, through which she completed the Leadership Training Academy with Physicians for Reproductive Health. She recently completed UCSF’s Faculty Development Fellowship.
Dr. McNeil continues to be active in reproductive health advocacy work, serving as the Contra Costa-Alameda delegate to the CAFP and as a California delegate to the National Conference of Constituency Leaders for the AAFP. Each year, she co-authors resolutions that TEACH brings to the state and national levels. She has lobbied in Sacramento and on Capitol Hill, and contributed to the public discourse on abortion through numerous editorials.
Dr. McNeil aims to improve access to comprehensive healthcare by providing and helping other primary care providers to integrate abortion services into their own practices. To this effect, she trains residents at Planned Parenthood and contributes to the online TEACH curriculum, including regular revisions of the TEACH-ANSIRH Workbook. She has lectured and led procedural simulations throughout the Bay Area, nationally, and in Australia. With the passage of AB 154 in 2013, which allows Advance Practice Clinicians to provide first trimester abortions, Dr. McNeil is keen to collaborate with ANSIRH, the UCSF School of Nursing, and recently trained colleagues throughout California.
Dr. McNeil did her undergraduate studies at Hamilton College, attended Dartmouth Medical School, and then completed her Family Medicine residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, CA, where she served as Chief Resident.
Megan Kumar, MPH joined TEACH in 2022 as Interim Director of Partnerships and was promoted to Director of Partnerships and Co-Director of the Reproductive Health Service Corps in September, 2023. A California native, Megan Kumar grew up in Sacramento and graduated with a BA in Mass Communications and a minor in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. After volunteering with a program to mentor junior high school girls, she was inspired to pursue health education as a career. This led her to the Masters’ degree program in Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she spent her free time volunteering with Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, teaching sex education to high school students, and working at the Department of Nursing Research and Education at the City of Hope National Medical Center.
After graduating with her MPH, Megan worked as an HIV and STI health educator at the Stanislaus County Department of Public Health, providing education and testing in a variety of community settings, including schools, jails and drug treatment centers. Later, she returned to UCLA to become the Title X manager at the Ob-Gyn Clinic, the primary training site for abortion care for UCLA medical and nursing students and residents. There, she worked with patients, students, and community members to increase knowledge of and access to family planning. Megan then moved to the University of California, San Francisco, spending 11 years with the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program and Fellowship in Complex Family Planning, managing programs to create academic leaders in abortion and contraception clinical care, research, and education. After shepherding the Fellowship through accreditation as an official subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology, Megan then joined Society of Family Planning as the Director of Fellowship and Membership, cultivating leadership and networking in the multidisciplinary world of family planning.
In addition to her work with TEACH, Megan now works with Sentient Research to manage a holistic, web-based pregnancy prevention and life-skills program for young parents. Megan is a member of NAF, SFP, and the California Abortion Alliance, volunteers her time as a mentor for UCLA MPH students, and has done many walks, and one marathon, to raise funds for HIV care and research organizations. She lives in San Francisco and can be found endlessly throwing the ball for her German Shepherd at Ocean Beach, or volunteering in the library at her son’s elementary school.
Alena Chavez serves as TEACH’s Program Manager. At TEACH, she serves as our advocacy and communications point person, leading our advocacy training and legislative advocacy work to advance reproductive health, rights and justice. Alena graduated from San Francisco State University in 2019 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy with a double minor in Political Science and Race and Resistance Studies. She will be graduating in a few months, also from SF State, with a Master’s Degree in Philosophy with a concentration in Race, Ethics, and Liberation. Before joining TEACH, Alena interned with some of the most progressive organizations in California such as: Bay Rising, Unite Here! Local 2, and the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. More recently, she was an intern and then fellow with NARAL Pro-Choice CA–and here, her passion for reproductive rights and justice advocacy was born.
Alena has a persistent voice for social justice and liberation, with over five years of diverse experience in mobilizing, organizing, and advocating for and alongside our country’s most oppressed and marginalized communities. She completes this by engaging with movement-building tactics, public political education, electoral politics, direct action and advocacy to build individual and collective power with a deep commitment to abolition, harm-reduction, and transformative justice. By virtue of lived experience, and growing up in one of the California counties that does not have an abortion provider, she is excited to be part of a team that is dedicated to advocating for reproductive rights as they relate to reproductive justice, and to expanding access to equitable, essential, and comprehensive health care–including access to abortion care.
In her free time, you can find Alena reading Political and Social Philosophy at Dolores Park with an iced-coffee, her partner, her puppy, and chosen family from the city by the Bay.
Meghana Atre serves as TEACH’s Program Coordinator, and is responsible for coordinating TEACH’s scheduling, CREATE program, and providing administrative and programmatic support. At TEACH, she serves as the coordinator between second and third-year residents and TEACH faculty abortion providers, and ensures each resident receives supervised clinical hours performing first-trimester abortion care at local training sites.
Meghana graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019 with a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology with a double minor in Chemistry and Psychology. She earned her Master’s degree in Public Health with a focus in Population and Family Health, as well as a Certificate in Health and Human Rights, from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in 2022. She is passionate about making reproductive health and education more readily accessible to individuals of all backgrounds!
She is currently living in Chicago and enjoys spending time with friends and family, basking in good weather, and making the most of life
Dr. Anita Vasudevan, MD MPH (she/her) is excited to be the 2023-2024 TEACH fellow. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was born and raised in Houston, Texas. While living in Texas, she saw the devastating impacts of unjust policies designed to curb reproductive rights. She hopes to use her training and privilege to help build a future filled with an abundance of abortion providers and protected reproductive rights for all people.
Advisory Board:
Board Chair – Susan George, MD
Member-at-Large – Cindy C. Liou, Esq.
Member-at-Large – Debbie Bamberger, DNP, RN, WHNP-BC
Member-at-Large – Jennifer Dunn, Esq.
Member-at-Large – Kimberly Robinson
Member-at-Large – Libby Benedict, MPA
Member-at-Large – Rebecca Reingold, Esq.
Member-at-Large – Sarah McNeil, MD
Member-at-Large – Shannon K. Olivieri Hovis, MPP
Member-at-Large – Sheila Attai, MD
Volunteers:
Special Events Coordinator – Jenny Tsang, MD
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