In her time at Newcomb Institute, Clare Daniel has linked research, teaching, and community engagement in a variety of ways. She has developed a robust network of partnerships with reproductive rights/health/justice organizations in New Orleans in order to cultivate opportunities for mutually beneficial projects and programming.
Before she transitioned to Director of Research for Newcomb Institute, she spent 7 years coordinating Newcomb’s Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health Internship Program, which places Tulane undergraduate students in internships at Lift Louisiana, New Orleans Abortion Fund, the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, Women With a Vision, and other sites. Read about students’ experiences in this program. She also created the Feminist Summer Internship Program, which she coordinated for four years and which places students at organizations around the country that work on feminist issues, including the National Women’s Law Center, the National Birth Equity Collaborative, and the National Women’s History Museum.
Clare also teaches courses that connect students to community partners working on reproductive rights, health, and justice; environmental justice; and other pressing issues.
She is a co-founder and former co-convener of the New Orleans Maternal and Child Health Coalition (MCHC). She now sits on the MCHC advisory board. She is also a member of the Louisiana Coalition for Reproductive Freedom and the Louisiana Adolescent Reproductive Health Coalition (LARHC). She recruits interested students to contribute to the work of these coalitions and periodically conducts community-engaged research in partnership with their members. Clare also co-convenes Tulane’s reproductive justice faculty working group, whose work was featured in this Chronicle of Higher Education article.
She advises the Tulane student organizations, Students United for Reproductive Justice, Women and Youth Supporting Each Other, and Big Easy EC. She also coordinated grants for students to attend Feminist Camp, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, and other feminist and reproductive justice experiences.
Read the reproductive rights/health/justice newsletter, ReproNews, that Clare edits with the students she teaches and advises.
These Initiatives in the News:
School of Liberal Arts Scholars Win Prestigious Award from Mellon Foundation to Host Sawyer Seminar on Reproductive Justice, Matt Roberts, Tulane Today, November 30, 2023
Fielding Questions About Abortion, Colleges Turn to a Familiar Vehicle: The Working Group, Nell Gluckman, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1, 2022
Newcomb Scholar is an Activist and Podcast Host, Faith Dawson, Tulane Today, May 20, 2021
New Type of Service Learning, September 2020
Tulane Student Health Center Now Provides Free Emergency Contraceptives, December 2019
Tulane partners with local MCH Coalition to reduce high maternal mortality rates, November 2019
SURJ now offering free emergency contraceptives for Tulane community, November 2019
Tulane Students Participate in Fights for Reproductive Justice, September 2019
Abortion wars: In Louisiana, softer tone paves way for sharp restrictions, Christian Science Monitor, May 2019