Serra Sippel is President of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE).  Ms. Sippel leads the organization in the monitoring and accountability of U.S. international policies to ensure that U.S. international policies and programs promote sexual and reproductive health and rights through effective, evidence-based approaches to prevention and treatment of critical reproductive and sexual health concerns, and through increased funding for critical programs. Ms. Sippel has more than fifteen years of experience in advocacy on women's rights issues. Prior to joining CHANGE, she was International Program Director at Catholics for a Free Choice where she worked collaboratively with women's rights activists around the world to advance the sexual, reproductive and other human rights of women. In addition, she has been involved in the fight for women's rights through her work with homeless women with children in Texas and on behalf of women prisoners in Indiana. Ms. Sippel holds a master's degree in religion with an emphasis on peace and justice and is the author of numerous articles and publications on religion and sexual and reproductive health and rights.  In 2005 she was a Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellow.