Summer Lopez has served as PEN America’s senior director of Free Expression Programs since November 2017. She previously worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for eight years, and was most recently posted to Zimbabwe, where she served as the deputy director of the Office of Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance at the USAID Mission in Harare.
Providing information about abortion access is literally illegal in some states, and the chilling effect could even spread to states where abortion is still legal.