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The People of Birth Justice Bar

Board of Directors



Jacqueline Kaye Hammack
, (she/her) J.D., President & Director, is a lawyer and doula working to advance birth justice. Grounded in a reproductive justice framework, Jacqui’s work supports and promotes the human rights of pregnant, birthing, and lactating individuals. In addition to serving as President of the Birth Justice Bar, she is a Collaborator with the Black Mamas Matter Alliance and a trainer with Elephant Circle. Jacqui was previously a Class 2 fellow in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network with the Center for Creative Leadership®, an inaugural fellow of the Mississippi Women’s Policy Institute, and a member of The Mississippi Bar’s Leadership Forum Class of 2020. Jacqui’s professional work is precariously balanced with the intensive caregiving the needs of a nursling preschooler, an elementary-aged homeschooler with an invisible disability, and an ailing octogenarian, all of which motivates her to strive for a world where human interdependence is acknowledged, valued, and holistically supported.



Deborah Fisch
(she/her) J.D., Vice President & Director, situates her work in reproductive justice's right to have children when and how we want to and the right to personal bodily autonomy. Her Michigan solo practice is dedicated to the licensing defense of community midwives and the promotion of birth justice. Deborah began her career at the University of Michigan's RJ program. After lobbying for licensure of Certified Professional Midwives, she was appointed to the state Board of Midwifery, where she helped develop rules for midwifery practice. She was active in drafting a 2024 legislative package seeking to license birth centers, grant Medicaid coverage fro community midwives, and initiate state tracking of incidences of obstetric violence and obstetric racism. In addition to other research and writing projects, she continues to cartoon at Mama's Got a Plan on the topics of midwives, perinatal care, and rights in childbirth.



Indra Wood Lusero
, (they/them) Esq., Director, is a human rights attorney licensed in Colorado, and founder of Elephant Circle  and the Birth Justice Bar. Indra designed Colorado’s ambitious Birth Equity bill package that passed in 2021 and has been involved in legislation to eliminate the shackling of incarcerated people during pregnancy and birth, create a presumption against incarceration of pregnant and postpartum people, improve midwifery and birth center regulations, and to create more humane policies for pregnant people impacted by substance use. Indra also spearheaded the creation of "Birth Rights: A resource for everyday people to defend human rights during labor and birth," and “Mobilizing the Office for Civil Rights’ Authority to Address Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism.” As a Queer, Genderqueer, Latinx/Genízaro parent rooted in the Rocky Mountain west, Indra is attuned to the importance of people on the margins and our role in leading the dismantling of oppressive systems to build a more equitable world.



Stephanie Kraft Sheley
, (she/her) J.D., M.H.A., Treasurer & Director, is an attorney and advocate for Reproductive Justice in Missouri and Illinois. She operates Kraft Sheley Law, where she provides legal assistance to pregnant and birthing people and their care providers. She founded and directs Right By You, an organization that helps Missourians access abortion care, contraception and respectful birth care. Her original comic "They Can't Get That from Us" appears in  Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics (2018).





Jenn Mahan
, (she/her) Esq., Director, Development and Community Engagement, is an attorney licensed in Maryland and based in Asheville, North Carolina. While lobbying for quality reproductive healthcare in Maryland's correctional facilities, she realized her journey toward Reproductive Justice is tied inextricably to her biological mother giving birth to her while incarcerated. Jenn is a former state legislative fellow with the Center for Reproductive Rights; she provided independent abortion providers with legal compliance assistance with Regulatory Assistance for Abortion Providers and completed an If/When/How state policy fellowship with SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW in Atlanta. Her work is informed and motivated by lived experience as a person who has had more than one abortion. 


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