Samantha Rodriguez

Pronouns | she/ella

Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Samantha grew up advocating for Reproductive Justice and Health.  Throughout her childhood, she watched her mother teach sexual education to middle school and high school students in North Philadelphia.  Her grandmother worked in HIV prevention and advocacy and traveled to prisons, providing education on HIV/AIDS.

She moved to Metairie, Louisiana (20 minutes from New Orleans) the day after her 24^th birthday and relocated to Houston in 2019 to project manage one of the Clinical Abortion Training Center locations.  During her tenure at Planned Parenthood, she developed experience with clinical quality assurance, project and program management, medical education, patient care clinical follow up, training, patient experience and team member engagement focusing on a diversity, equity and inclusion lens.