Myra Batchelder, MPA, (she/her) is a strategist, advocate, policy expert, founder, and coalition-builder with over two decades of experience driving change at domestic and global levels.

Myra founded and leads a consulting firm that partners with nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and other social impact organizations to drive change through strategy development, policy and advocacy initiatives, program development and management, network-building, and strategic partnerships. She has worked with many organizations including Center for Reproductive Rights, Ipas, Ibis Reproductive Health, American Society for Emergency Contraception, ACOG, Women Deliver, International Consortium for Emergency Contraception, and more.

Previously, she led and worked on programs, projects, and policy and advocacy efforts at national nonprofit organizations. She directed and designed a national program at the National Institute for Reproductive Health to expand reproductive health care access and led a project to improve sex education policy. She also served as a policy analyst on economic opportunity at Demos, led a community advocacy project working to improve sex education across the country at SIECUS, and was awarded a research fellowship on reproductive health at the Center for Law and Social Policy.

Myra has extensive experience in public health and health equity, including sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, Long COVID, as well as gender equity and economic justice.

Myra has received a number of honors and awards for her work. She was awarded the Rockwood Leadership Institute Fellowship for Leaders in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in 2019. She was also awarded a CoreAlign Generative Fellowship in 2013-2014 where she worked to build bridges between domestic and international sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice movements. She was previously chosen by Kaiser Family Foundation and MTV as one of the top HIV/AIDS activists in the world under 30.

Myra has served on many boards and steering committees including New York Abortion Access Fund, National Network of Abortion Funds, Raising Women's Voices, Sex Education Alliance of New York City, and more. She has spoken at multiple conferences including American Public Health Association, National Health Law Program, Harvard University, International Consortium for Emergency Contraception, and more. She has written and published multiple reports, articles, opinion pieces, and more.

She is passionate about building connections, coalitions, networks, and movements. She co-founded and leads the Reproductive ("Repro") Health Happy Hour, a movement-building initiative that began in New York City and expanded worldwide. She also founded a grassroots advocacy group working to improve COVID response efforts in New York City, New York State, and nationally.

Originally from the rural Midwest, Myra now lives in New York City.

Myra holds a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and studied at Oxford University.