Aparna Krishnaswamy and Elizabeth Arndorfer

Aparna Krishnaswamy is responsible for managing and supporting several of RHTP’s reproductive health program areas including contraceptive technologies and environmental effects on reproductive health.

Before joining RHTP, Aparna worked as a Field Organizer on the Barack Obama presidential campaign in North Dakota and Wisconsin. In this role her work included trainings on Obama’s Pro-Choice platform and how to talk about reproductive justice with conservative and religious voters. Aparna got her start in reproductive health policy as a research intern in Senator Ted Kennedy’s health office of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, after which she worked as a Legislative Correspondent in the Office of Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), covering Health and Reproductive Rights. A graduate of Duke University, Aparna spent her college years working on various women’s rights issues, such as co-founding a student-run publication designed to address sexual assault and assisting legal aid attorneys who represented survivors of Domestic Violence.

Elizabeth Arndorfer is a consultant with a long history in the women's health movement. She works with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project on several projects including their effort to link reproductive health and the environment.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Ms. Arndorfer was the director of NARAL Pro-choice America's Proactive Policy Institute which promoted policies to protect and expand access to the full range of reproductive health services and provided strategic advice and model legislation to policymakers and advocates in almost every state. Prior to joining NARAL, Ms. Arndorfer was the Director of Government Relations for the National Abortion Federation and a litigation associate at Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin, LLP. She earned her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law in 1993 and resides in Palo Alto with her husband and three (fabulous) children.