On May 12, 2025, the PRH community came together to honor two courageous abortion providers, Dr. Jennefer Russo and Dr. Tiffany Hailstorks. With powerful remarks from President & CEO Dr. Jamila Perritt and a special appearance by longtime PRH champion and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver, Voices of Courage raised critical funds to fuel our network of 500+ physician advocates fighting for reproductive health, rights, and justice nationwide.
This is more than an annual event—it’s a movement. To learn more about how you can support Voices of Courage 2026 through sponsorship, contact Amanda Steele at [email protected] or 646-649-9915.
Honorees & Special Guests
DR. TIFFANY HAILSTORKS will receive the 2025 Tiller Advocacy Award for her tireless advocacy work dismantling barriers to reproductive health, rights, and justice in Georgia.
Dr. Hailstorks is an Associate Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Director of the Complex Family Planning Division, and an academic clinician and reproductive health researcher. She also works as an abortion provider and physician advocate at Feminist Women’s Health Center, a nonprofit organization in Georgia that directly provides reproductive health services and upholds the tenets of reproductive justice through organizing and advocacy. Within the health center, she serves as medical director of abortion services and is committed to providing equitable care that is evidence-based and patient-centered. She serves as a commissioner for the Atlanta Reproductive Justice Commission, where she leverages her expertise to promote community engagement, expand access, and create resources to support people who are impacted by restrictive legislation and policy.
Dr. Hailstorks is a member of PRH Leadership Training Academy Class of 2019.
DR. JENNEFER RUSSO will receive the 2025 Rashbaum Leadership Award for her longstanding dedication to expanding abortion access as a physician, educator, and advocate in California.
Dr. Russo, Section Chief for Complex Family Planning, Gender Health, and Justice at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services’ CARE121 abortion access program, is a complex family planning board certified obstetrician/gynecologist. She has dedicated her career to the care of the underserved and has served in leadership roles at Planned Parenthood affiliates, county hospitals, federally qualified health clinics, and a variety of other organizations. Dr. Russo is also DuPont Clinic Los Angeles’ Executive Director. In that role, she has led the organization’s challenging efforts to open an all-trimester abortion clinic in Los Angeles and expand access to later abortion care through advocacy and operational support to providers.
Dr. Russo is a member of the PRH Leadership Training Academy Class of 2012.
JOHN OLIVER is an Emmy and Writer’s Guild Award-winning writer, comedian, and host of the HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. On his occasional breaks from television, John returns to his first love of stand-up, performing to sold-out venues around the world.
From 2006-2013, he was a correspondent on the multi-award winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, guest-hosting the show for two months during Stewart’s absence in 2013.
Prior to this, he starred in his first stand-up special John Oliver: Terrifying Times before going on to host four seasons of his own stand-up series for Comedy Central, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show. Until 2015 he also co-hosted the weekly satirical podcast The Bugle.
Oliver voices the character Zazu in the Disney film The Lion King, following previous guest roles including Paramount’s Wonder Park, Danger Mouse, Community, The Smurfs, The Smurfs 2, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, The Detour, Rick & Morty and The Horne Section TV Show.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor – $50,000
The Harnisch Foundation
Presenting Livestream Sponsor – $30,000
PLAN C
Advocate Sponsor – $25,000
Dr. Chris Creatura
The Scheman & Ratner Family
Ally Sponsor – $5,000
Dr. Brenda Berry and Jon Lopatin
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Dr. Gwen N. Harris
Kiwi Partners, a division of Arabella Advisors
Reproductive Freedom for All
Spring Fertility
Supporter Sponsor – $2,500
Clara Bingham
Dorian Brown
DuPont Clinic
Rima G. Kopelman, MD and Roger G. Rosenstein, MD
Anne Romney
If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice
National Abortion Federation
National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association
National Women’s Law Center
Society of Family Planning
URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
Collaborator Sponsor – $1,500
Anonymous, Los Angeles
CCRM New York
Dr. Gabriela Aguilar
Dr. Holly Andersen
S. Louise Carr, MD MS CFP, Reproductive Health Physician Advocate
Drs. Peter K. Chang and Ron Palmon
Dr. Gayatri Devi
Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Luminosas Wellness Collective
Maimonides Family Planning
Mt. Sinai Complex Family Planning Division
National Institute for Reproductive Health
Pegasus Health Justice Center
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York
Sabrina Strickland, MD
Sari Cooper Center for Love and Sex
Wendy S. Ziecheck, MD and Mario Abruzzi