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About Faye Wattleton
In 1978, she became the first Black woman to lead a national reproductive health organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and held that post for 14 transformative years, steering it through Roe v. Wade’s peak influence and its early erosion. Faye Wattleton didn’t just speak about equity; she redesigned media strategy for advocacy, insisting that newsrooms treat reproductive justice as structural policy, not private morality, and training hundreds of grassroots communicators to frame stories with data, dignity, and narrative precision. Her 1994 memoir, Life on the Line, broke ground not only in content but in form: interwoven oral histories, legislative transcripts, and broadcast clip annotations showed how media infrastructure itself shapes whose lives are legible in public discourse. She co-founded the Center for Gender Equality at the National Press Club in 2001, not as a think tank, but as a live-editing lab where journalists redrafted headlines and ledes alongside community organizers. That insistence, that access to narrative control is as vital as access to care, remains her quiet, enduring signature.
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