END PERIOD POVERTY

END PERIOD POVERTY

Mujeres and Menstruators United convenes menstrual activists from across the country to strengthen the movement to end period poverty

We Believe:

Menstrual products should be as universal as toilet paper

Menstruation education should be taught in schools - not only for people who menstruate

Everyone’s menstruation experience is different, and menstruators deserve to make informed decisions about what products they use

Our movement is multilingual, multicultural, intergenerational and intersectional.

Period policy should be public policy!

We’re organizing to pass period policy on the local, state & federal level to address the systemic erasure of menstruation and menstruators from public policy. Join our coalition in community building, service and legislative advocacy.

Our Founders

  • She/Her/Hers

    Eiko La Boria was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She is a writer, poet and the founder,The Flow Initiative, a non profit fighting to eradicate period poverty, establish menstrual equity, and elevate gender equality. She advances the movement through service, education, awareness, advocacy and policy lobbying. She has conducted 175educational menstrual equity workshops in partnership with Horizon BC/BS of NJ. Since2020, she has donated over 200,000 menstrual products. She created the first free period product pilot program in NJ at P.S. 34, President Barack Obama School . She isa United State of Women Ambassador for Gender Equality and an ally of the LGBTQ+community. Eiko is a member of the Equality, Period. NJ Coalition, which is lobbying for free period products in middle and high schools. In 2021, she created Project LocalAccess, which identifies established social infrastructures and transforms them into access hubs. She partnered with the Jersey City Free Public Library and installed free period product dispensers in all bathrooms and provided period care packages for distribution to the public. She is a partner of Libraries Without Borders.

  • She/Her/Hers

    Sasha Goodfriend is a community organizer, curating feminist & queer experiences through partnerships with statewide government, community organizations & creatives alike. She works to advance this mission through her roles as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women (Mass NOW), a community organizer consultant with the Boston Tenant Coalition and Our Bodies Ourselves and serves as a board member with the Transgender Emergency Fund and member of Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth. Sasha graduated with a B.A. from the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University majoring in International Relations with a minor in Women, Gender & Sexuality studies and received her Masters in Public Policy from Simmons University.