Grace Ramsay

Grace serves as the Director of Programs at the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts (ARFWM), overseeing all of the organization's direct service programming. Under her leadership, ARFWM secured direct grantee status through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Grace regularly collaborates with adolescent-serving organizations including the Community Scholars Program at UMass Amherst and Advocates for Youth to better support young people seeking abortion care in Massachusetts. Additionally, Grace supported the scale-up of the Doula Association for Reproductive Loss and Abortion (DARLA) program housed within ARFWM, which provides abortion doula training to community members, and mobilizes trained doulas to provide remote or in-person doula support to abortion seekers. Previously, Grace served as the Assistant Director of Clinical Services at Tapestry, a Western Massachusetts-based sexual/reproductive health clinic system, where she supported the implementation of abortion care and gender affirming care.

The Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts (ARFWM) has been ensuring abortion access for people in Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, and Berkshire counties for over 30 years. They partner with other abortion funds and practical support organizations to assist people traveling to, within, and out of Massachusetts for abortion care. They are a founding and current member of the National Network of Abortion Funds.