Plantarenhood's Strategy Is Different Than It Was a Year Ago

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Plantarenhood is a network of currently forty nine afpil s. We have over 600 health centres across the country. A couple of hundred million come to our website every year for information around sexual and reproductive education. Our efforts over the last decade have been really to rely on the courts. The courts have been our back stop, and we have seen the judiciary get remade in the last four years. For many people, it may feel like this moment just happened out of thin air,. But they have actually been building for over a decade to this moment. It is the long game that it takes not just to win a right, but also to defend and maintain right.

Faced with long odds, how do you keep your team motivated and moving forward? As a leader, Alexis McGill Johnson is focused on building hope. As the president of Planned Parenthood, Johnson is preparing for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. But in the meantime, she’s modeling a sense of relentlessness for her team – so they can be fearless and unapologetic. Since she took over at Planned Parenthood, she’s faced both internal and external challenges. Something she learned early: "You really need to drive it like you stole it,” she says. “And don't wait for permission to make the transformations that you need to see.” She’s chosen to speak boldly, emphasizing equity and addressing the organization’s legacies of racism head on. The lessons she offers can be focused as a refusal to shy away from disappointments – and impossible dreams.

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