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Amanda Williams, LMSW
Amanda Williams is a native Texan and Latina feminist activist from Houston, Texas now living in Austin. She served on the board of directors for the Lilith Fund, a Texas abortion fund, from 2012-2015 and is now the organization’s first-ever executive director. Amanda holds a Master’s degree in Political Social Work. Previously, she worked the 83rd Texas Legislative Session as a policy analyst for the Legislative Study Group through Graduate College of Social Work and was the program manager of Shift., focusing on abortion stigma eradication, movement building, and advocacy. She dedicates her life to reproductive justice work and openly shares her abortion story in order to reduce the stigma around abortion.