REPRO Gala 2025

Save the date for our 14th annual REPRO Gala, happening on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Arlington!

This year’s theme is “Future of REPRO“.

Please consider joining us as a sponsor! Sponsorships are so important as they open opportunities for new gala guests to learn about our work and for donated seats to be given to young activists or those on the frontlines of abortion care as part of our growing community.  Who do you want at your table?

To view sponsorship levels and benefits, click here.  You may complete this sponsorship form if purchasing online or by downloading this form to mail to us if paying by check.

Tickets are on sale now until this Monday, June 2nd and cannot be purchased at the door! Tickets are $200, and new and existing GEMs (recurring donors) can get tickets for $150. Click here to purchase your tickets.

REPRO Gala 2025 is on!

Kenda Sutton-El is a leader and activist dedicated to advancing reproductive justice, maternal health, and racial equality. Growing up in the rural community of Northern Neck, Virginia, she witnessed firsthand the systemic disparities affecting marginalized communities, inspiring her lifelong commitment to transformative change.

As the Founder and Executive Director of Birth In Color,  Kenda continues to redefine maternal health by centering culturally inclusive care, integrating doulas into healthcare systems, and actively working to reduce disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes.

Sutton-El’s initiatives include the establishment of Black Maternal Health Week in Virginia, advocacy for Medicaid reimbursement for doula services, and the implementation of racial bias training for healthcare providers.

In partnership with Virginia Union University, the first HBCU in Virginia to offer a doula training program, Kenda led a groundbreaking collaboration with the Virginia Department of Health. This initiative equips VUU students with essential skills to support families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum stages, addressing critical health disparities and cultivating a new generation of maternal health advocates.

Kenda also serves as an active doula, providing personalized birthing support to community members and close friends, a Doula Trainer, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant, and Policy Analyst. She holds leadership positions as Chair of the Virginia Doula Taskforce, Chair of the Greater Richmond Regional Maternal Child Health Taskforce, and serves as a member of the Virginia Maternal and Data Outcomes Taskforce and the Pregnancy Services for Incarceration Workgroup.

Her work has earned national recognition, including participation in Vice President Kamala Harris’s roundtable on Reproductive Health and honors such as ACHI Magazine’s Women of the Year, the Urban One Hometown Hero Award, and Health Equity Advocate of the Year by Families USA. Through her unwavering dedication, Kenda continues to drive systemic reforms, ensuring that Black families receive respectful, informed, and culturally appropriate maternal care.

Lisa Carroll has been involved with causes and non-profits her entire life. She grew up in Florida and moved to Washington D.C. to do good work immediately after her college graduation. Her family is her son, three step-children, their spouses, and five grandsons. She is a widow. When she retired in 2021, she decided that volunteering would be her focus for the next stage of life. Being a volunteer with REPRO Rising Virginia has been so important to her because she remembers the awful days when abortion was illegal; what horrors women went through in those days. She hopes her contribution of volunteering to participate in the Positive Presence events each month brings support and encouragement to clinic patients and staff.