Board of Directors
Karin Schall, Board President
Karin Schall is the Manager of Special Events at Lincoln Center Theater, where she has worked for over 25 years. In addition to being a proud Board Member of A is For, she is also on the Board of Projects With Care and is an active member of Rise and Resist. Karin lives in Hell's Kitchen and can be seen out at protests or chalking the neighborhood in her free time.
Biola Odunewu, Vice-President
Biola Odunewu is a multi-channel communications specialist and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in strategy, operations, marketing, and product development. For more than a decade, she owned and managed a successful and popular neighborhood cafe in Brooklyn, providing a haven for food, a safe space for ideas, or a solitary cup of coffee. Before that, she worked as a writer and executive producer for a wide range of traditional and new media platforms (both national and international), including CNN, ABC, and HyperTV Networks, creating featured stories and content, interactive programming for live weekly broadcasts, and more. Besides working at the Astraea Foundation for Justice, Biola and her partner Robin recently opened a new bar, Mr. Lee's in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Biola received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism (with a concentration in International News and Politics) from Georgia State University. She is originally from Nigeria and has lived in New York for 25 years. In addition to English, Biola speaks Yoruba.
Meredith Clair, Treasurer
Meredith is a lawyer who cares deeply about a woman’s right to make informed choices about her own body without guilt and without the threat of intimidation or violence.
Ariana DeBose
Ariana DeBose is an all around storyteller who you may know as #theBullet, Anita in Spielberg’s West Side Story or Alyssa in Ryan Murphy’s The Prom. A Queer Queen and an ardent believer that reproductive rights are women’s rights, women’s rights are human rights, so .... yeah.
She loves ice cream, flowers and supporting strong, loud, proud nasty women.
Amanda Green
Amanda Green is a two-time Tony-nominated lyricist/composer, writer and award-winning performer. She is currently writing lyrics for the musical Mr. Saturday Night co-written by and starring Billy Crystal, and Female Troubles an original musical comedy she co-conceived, which she describes as “Jane Austen Meets Bridesmaids, but about women’s reproductive freedoms.” Amanda was recently elected as the first female president of The Dramatists Guild.
Patrick Hinds
Patrick Hinds is the co-creator and co-host of the hit true crime/comedy podcast, True Crime Obsessed, where each week he and his co-host, Gillian Pensavalle, give their take on a true crime documentary with humor, heart, and sass. With over 200 million downloads, True Crime Obsessed is one of the most popular podcasts in the world. TCO made history by being the first podcast to play live on Broadway in 2022. In 2020, Patrick and his husband, Steve Tipton, created the Obsessed Network, where they oversaw the production of the hit podcasts Murder in Alliance, Obsessed With: Disappeared, Strange and Unexplained, Crimes of the Centuries, and I Think Not. They also co-created the popular annual true crime fan convention Obsessed Fest.
Michelle Hurd
Michelle Hurd is an Actor and an Activist. A native Greenwich Village New Yorker, she grew up with parents that understood the importance of Art and Activism. She has been a professional actress for 30yrs, and done everything from off off b'way to broadway, to soap operas, sitcoms, cop dramas, and to her current job on Star Trek: Picard.
She can't stomach injustice, won't suffer fools, never shy to speak up and will always fight for those that need their voices to be amplified. Strength in numbers my brothers and sisters. Let's get into some Good Trouble.
Jenn Lyon
Jenn Lyon is an award-winning, Brooklyn based actress, writer, producer, and activist. She has been seen on and off Broadway, in film/TV and she currently stars in the show “Claws” on TNT. She fights for reproductive rights and basic bodily autonomy and loves this quote by Laurie Penny: “The question of whether a fetus is a person has become conveniently unanswerable. The question of whether a woman is a person, however, is not up for debate.”
Carolyn McCormick
McCormick was born in Midland, Texas and grew up in Houston. She went to Williams College and graduated with honors and a BFA in theatre and then attended grad school in San Francisco at the American Conservatory Theatre where she received her MFA. She lives in NYC and has worked extensively in film, theatre, audio books and television. She is probably best known as Dr. Olivet on Law and Order which she has done on and off for the last 30 years. She became involved with A is For three years ago and is a major advocate for a woman's right to make choices about her own body. She believes A is For is an essential organization to help take the stigma away from abortion and to help as many communities as possible that are not adequately funded when it comes to women's reproductive choices.
Carol Ochs
Carol Ochs has worked in the non-profit theater community for over 37 years, 29 of which she has been the Executive Director of The 52nd Street Project, an organization which brings inner-city children together with professional theater artists to create theater. The Project is a recipient of a Coming Up Taller Award which recognizes exemplary community arts programs serving at-risk youth, and has recently completed a $20m capital campaign and construction of a brand new theater home for the neighborhood kids.
Carol has also worked at Lincoln Center Theater, the Ark Theater Company of Soho, and Yale School of Drama where she received an MFA in Theater Management. She has served as a financial consultant to the Human Arts Association, and is a board member of the Human Arts Association, ART/NY, and has sat on grant panels for the Nancy Quinn Fund, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the NEA. A recent addition to the board of A is For, she has been an enthusiastic supporter since its inception, and is passionate about reproductive justice.
Tiffany Reynolds-Richardson
Tiffany Reynolds-Richardson has been actively involved in the women’s and abortion rights movement for over 20 years. She has worked with elected officials, including former Congressman Russ Carnahan and North Carolina’s Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, and organizations across the country with a strict concentration on electing people to public office who support reproductive healthcare rights. She is the former president of the National Women’s Political Caucus – Metro St. Louis and of Missouri NOW.
Jessica Vosk
Jessica Vosk is a celebrated singer and actress known for stirring roles on the musical theater and concert stage. Vosk made her Carnegie Hall debut in November 2021 in a sold-out solo show titled “My Golden Age.” Other upcoming concert debuts include London’s Cadogan Hall in 2022. Before the infamous shutdown, she starred as the Narrator in the 50th anniversary of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Lincoln Center. She also created the role of Aunt Val in the world premiere of Becoming Nancy, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. Before that, Vosk finished an acclaimed run as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway, having played the role for two years. Vosk starred in New York City Ballet’s Jerome Robbins tribute Something to Dance About, directed by Warren Carlyle, and re-created the role of Fruma Sarah in the most recent Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Other Broadway credits include Finding Neverland and The Bridges of Madison County. She starred as Anita in West Side Story with the San Francisco Symphony; the recording of the concert was nominated for a Grammy. Her debut, Billboard-charting solo album Wild and Free was released in 2018 and was followed by 2020’s A Very Coco Christmas.