Gretchen Sisson

Gretchen Sisson, PhD is a qualitative sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States, based at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, a ten-year examination of adoption relinquishment during the years of Roe. Her research on relinquishment after abortion denial was cited in the Supreme Court's dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, and has been covered in The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, The Atlantic, Vox, and on NPR and other outlets. Gretchen is also the co-founder of the Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund, a movement-led, rapid-response, trust-based philanthropy effort of the Women Donors Network to address the post-Dobbs needs in abortion provision and protection across the country.