Who We Are
Jenifer McKenna
Jenifer McKenna is Senior Advisor at Reproductive Health and Freedom Watch.
Jenifer brings over thirty years experience advocating for reproductive and gender equity to her role at RHFW, and deep expertise in the unregulated pregnancy clinic industry. She is co-founder and former Managing Director of California Women’s Law Center, where she advanced policy advocacy on reproductive rights, gender-based violence, and gender discrimination. From 2012-2022, Jenifer coordinated The Alliance: State Advocates for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, a first-time collaboration of state-based gender law and policy centers, developing cross-state advocacy and authoring multiple publications promoting state strategies to strengthen reproductive and gender justice. From 2018-2021, Jenifer directed the Alliance crisis pregnancy center (CPC) project, led the first multi-state CPC investigation, and co-authored the national report: Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States. She is a nationally recognized expert on the CPC industry, and a contributing reporter on unregulated pregnancy clinic issues for Ms. Magazine.
Selected Publications:
Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States
Co-author
Global, National, Regional Anti-Abortion Organizations Supporting CPCs
Author
Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Not Essential Healthcare Yet Stayed Open AS COVID-19 Spread in the U.S.
Co-author
BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health Journal
The Road Ahead: Gender Equality After Hobby Lobby
Principal author
Recent Ms. articles:
Crisis pregnancy centers promise confidentiality, leaving women seeking reproductive healthcare to trust that the information they provide is legally protected. It is not.
Anti-Abortion Extremists Are Diverting Tax Dollars to Crisis Pregnancy Centers
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is in Crisis Communications Mode
Anti-abortion lawmakers and right-to-lifers are making crisis pregnancy centers a priority in 2024 messaging.
Selected mainstream media commentary:
Boston Globe: Playing dirty on abortion
The Guardian: Anti-abortion centers raked in $1.4bn in year Roe fell, including federal money
Bloomberg: Anti-Abortion Group’s Data Trove Represents ‘Serious Concern’ Post Roe
Debra Rosen
Debra Rosen is the Executive Director of Reproductive Health and Freedom Watch.
Debra is a seasoned strategist and changemaker with over 20 years of experience driving impactful progress in movements facing significant challenges. Prior to founding Reproductive Health and Freedom Watch in 2022, she led the international tobacco industry accountability strategy at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), where she successfully removed tobacco companies from key international alliances, including the UN Global Compact and the International Labor Organization. Under her leadership, CTFK also exposed covert influencer marketing that resulted in social media platform policy reforms and documented youth-targeted marketing, leading to the adoption of tobacco control laws in 14 countries.
Debra’s leadership extends to a variety of social justice causes. She was the Managing Director for Moms Demand Action for Gun Safety and the inaugural Director of the Walk Free Movement to End Global Slavery. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant for large-scale grassroots advocacy organizations and held the position of Senior Vice President at M+R Strategic Services. Her consulting portfolio includes high-profile organizations such as AARP, Human Rights Campaign, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, Polaris Project, and SPARC.