Myra Batchelder has experience at the local, state, national, and international levels with a focus on public health and health equity, including sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, Long COVID, and economic justice. For a decade, she worked on and led programs, projects, and policy and advocacy efforts at national and international nonprofits and think tanks, including the National Institute for Reproductive Health, 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 social impact organizations on strategy, policy, advocacy, program development and management, network-building and strategic partnerships, and grantmaking.
Myra has received many honors and awards for her work. 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. She has spoken at multiple conferences including American Public Health Association and International Consortium for Emergency Contraception.
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.
Myra holds a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and spent her junior year of college at Oxford University.