Something inside Schell Carpenter clicked as she witnessed Texas Senator Wendy Davis' 2013 filibuster of an omnibus anti-choice bill that threatened to reduce the number of abortion clinics in Texas to 8 from 41. Carpenter said she'd been a donor and supporter of Planned Parenthood for years, but when she watched Davis' filibuster of almost 11 hours, that no longer felt like enough. "When that day was over, I was determined to increase my involvement," she said. She started becoming more educated about the reproductive justice movement, and when The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity encouraged LGBTQ women to apply for board seats in the fall of 2014, she "sheepishly" applied.

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