Meet Our Team
Ramey Connelly
Associate Director of Individual Clinical Training
Ramey Connelly joined Midwest Access Project in November 2021 as our new Individual Clinical Training Manager. After completing her BA in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, Ramey provided care as a full-spectrum doula in Richmond, VA. Following this, she spent nearly a decade in direct patient care, clinical training coordination, and clinic administration with The Women’s Centers, a group of independent abortion providers. She is particularly passionate about systems management and quality improvement. Ramey is dedicated to the expansion of access to safe, individualized, compassionate reproductive health care, and committed to protecting the dignity of those who seek it. Ramey lives with her pitbull, Godric, and an overabundance of house plants.
Alison Mankowski, LCSW
Interim Executive Director
Alison comes to Midwest Access Project with experience providing leadership and consultation within non-profit and start-up organizations.Â
For the past decade, she’s worked with companies and institutions that specialize in healthcare delivery including mental health and telehealth solutions; violence prevention; sexual assault and intimate partner violence.Â
Alison is on the board of PersonalPAC, Greenlight Family Services, and Be Alright, is passionate about access to health care and supporting people in exercising their rights and choices. She has a Master’s in Social Work from University of Chicago and a BA from University of Michigan. Â
Deputy Director
To reach MAP’s new Deputy Director, please email info@midwestaccessproject.org.
Alyssa Stenson
Provider & Community Education Manager
Alyssa Stenson is a proud abortion story-teller and east-coaster. Alyssa has extensive experience within reproductive justice organizing and mobilizing for abortion access.Â
Most recently, Alyssa completed a fellowship with Collective Power for Reproductive Justice, supporting youth building skills for community organizing. Alyssa currently teaches inclusive and diverse Sexual and Reproductive Health in Chicago. Alyssa is passionate about the youth and community having access to sexual and reproductive health. In Alyssa’s free time she is an abortion doula, Feminist Women’s Health Center fellow, and a Abortion Trainer for Advocates for Youth. In the past, Alyssa did abortion training and education in Arizona at Planned Parenthood. In college, Alyssa completed internships with GLAAD, Planned Parenthood, Public Defender’s Office, Interpersonal Violence on Campus, and Advocates for Youth this gives Alyssa the tools to provide a diverse background in abortion space. Alyssa decenters cisgender whiteness in abortion training and uplifts queer, trans, and BIPOC voices in her trainings.
Alyssa loves watching reality tv, reading, and taking her dog for a walk!
Alyssa has a Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University- Newark in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a minor in sociology.
Our Board of Directors
Sameera Ali
Communications and Marketing Consultant
Hannah Cutts, CNM, WHNP
Nurse Practitioner, ACCESS Community Health Network
Andrea Friedman, JD
National Abortion Access Advocate
Stephanie Tillman, CNM, MSN
Feminist Midwife, LLC; Health Care Ethics PhD Student at Saint Louis University
Nicole Baltrushes Hughes, MD
Family Medicine Physician; Faculty, Cook County Family Medicine Residency, Cook County Health and Hospital Systems
Dinaz Mansuri, MA
Executive Director, The Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
Julie Walner, MM, CPA
Real Estate Financial Consultant, JMB Financial Advisors, LLC
Lorie Chaiten, JD
MAP Co-Founder / Senior Staff Attorney, Reproductive Freedom Project, ACLU Foundation
Morgan Madison, MD
Family Medicine Physician, PCC Community Wellness Center
Barbara Schechtman, MPH
Retired. Former Executive Director, Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center
Kathy Chan
Director of Policy, Cook County Health and Hospitals System
Kevin Hu, MD
Family Physician and Residency Faculty; ACCESS Community Health Network; Sinai Chicago; Planned Parenthood
Debra Stulberg, MD, MA
MAP Co-Founder / Family Medicine Physician; Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Chicago