Myra Batchelder has experience at the local, state, national, and international levels with a focus on health policy and advocacy, including sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and economic justice. For a decade, she led programs and worked on policy and advocacy at nonprofits and think tanks, including National Institute for Reproductive Health, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, Demos, SIECUS, and Center for Law and Social Policy. After graduating with her MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, Myra founded a consulting firm. She works with nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, B Corps, think tanks, and other entities on policy & advocacy, strategy, program development and management, network-building, and grantmaking.

Myra is passionate about coalition and network building, cross-movement efforts, and connecting global and domestic movements. She co-founded and leads the Reproductive Health Happy Hour, a movement-building and networking initiative that holds events for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates and allies that began in New York City in 2004 and expanded worldwide. In 2019, Myra was awarded the Rockwood Leadership Institute Fellowship for Leaders in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice. Myra was awarded a CoreAlign Generative Fellowship in 2013-2014 where she worked to build bridges between domestic and international sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice movements. She was previously chosen by Kaiser Family Foundation and MTV as one of the top HIV/AIDS activists in the world under 30.

Myra has served on many boards including as Board Co-Chair and Board Member for New York Abortion Access Fund, Board Member for National Network of Abortion Funds, National Advisory Board for Raising Women's Voices, and Steering Committee for Sex Education Alliance of New York City.

Originally from rural Michigan, Myra now lives in NYC. She is active in her community and in 2018 was elected as a County Committee member for Kings County Democratic Party. She also founded a support group for consultants and entrepreneurs. Myra is active on social media & was selected as one of “35 Leading Tweeters on Family Planning & Reproductive Health” in Huffington Post.

Myra holds a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, BA from Sarah Lawrence College, & spent her junior year of college at Oxford University.