Katrina is a nurse-midwifery and women’s
health/gender-related nurse practitioner student at the University of
Pennsylvania. She has experience working in provision of early pregnancy loss
care in an outpatient primary care health center, and has worked as a birth and
abortion/procedure doula. Katrina is co-leader of the Reproductive Health
Access Network in Philadelphiaand has trained clinicians, activists, and
students in Philadelphia and New York in using procedural and medication
treatment for early pregnancy loss and abortion, and is the student
representative on the Clinicians in Abortion Care Advisory Board at theNational
Abortion Federation. She was the recipient of the 2020 Karen Edlund, RN, Future
Leader Award given by Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Kara currently serves as Core Faculty and Outreach
Coordinator for the Division of Family Planning at Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia. Kara is also the Nurse
Practitioner for the Family Planning Clinic where she provides management for
patients going experiencing early pregnancy loss. She graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania with an MSN in the Women’s Health and Gender Related
Nurse Practitioner program and has a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from
Drexel University. She also has a Bachelor's degree in International
Development, Social Change and Gender Studies from Clark University. Kara
istrained as a full spectrum Doula. She
has been working in sexual and reproductive health for over ten years.
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