A group of medical students collectively known as UConn Med Students for Choice recently accepted the Ellen Paradise Fisher Award for Activism in Action for their advocacy for accessible reproductive rights.

“We were nominated for our work in partnership with Coast to Coast for a Cause, fundraising for the REACH Fund, having seven of our students trained as doulas through the Wesleyan Doula Project, and partnering with Reproductive Equity Now to have students and faculty testify in support of three separate bills at the CT legislature so far this spring,” says second-year student Claire Surkis, president of UConn Med Students for Choice.

The students were presented with the award at the Reproductive Equity Now 2024 Gala in Boston.