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Gretchen Sisson
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBoston College
Scientific career
Fieldssociologist
Institutions
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health

Gretchen Sisson is a sociologist at UC San Francisco's Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Her work focuses on parenthood in popular culture, including teen pregnancy, abortion, adoption, and assisted reproduction.

Life

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Sisson was born in Pennsylvania. She went to Amherst College and received her PhD from Boston College.[1] She is married to Andrew McCollum, and lives in San Francisco.

At UCSF, she became the lead investigator of the Abortion Onscreen project,[2] which maintains a public database of references to abortion in media.[3] This is part of a broader program called Advancing New Standard in Reproductive Health. Since 2016, this dataset is widely used to understand changing social conversations around abortion in the United States,[4][5] which can differ in demographics and context from actual use.[6][7]

She has also written about the impact of judicial challenges to Roe v. Wade,[8] and changing perceptions of adoption.[9]

Published research

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  • Depicting Abortion Access on American Television (2017)[10]
  • Adoption Decision Making Among Women Seeking Abortion (2016)[11]
  • Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (2016)[12]
  • Finding a Way to Offer Something More: Reframing Teen Pregnancy Prevention (2012)[13]

Fundraising

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Sisson is a political activist and donor, serving on the board of political fundraising networks Emerge America and WDN Action.[14][15] She has advised the San Francisco Foundation on philanthropy to support reproductive health.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Gretchen Sisson, PhD | Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health". bixbycenter.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  2. ^ "Abortion Onscreen | ANSIRH". www.ansirh.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  3. ^ "Abortion Onscreen Database | ANSIRH". www.ansirh.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  4. ^ "From dramas like 'Scandal' to documentaries like 'Abortion: Stories Women Tell,' the hot-button topic is evolving on TV". Los Angeles Times. 2017-03-31. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  5. ^ Buckley, Cara (2019-07-18). "Hollywood and the Matter-of-Fact Abortion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  6. ^ Aliferis, Lisa (2015-12-18). "On TV, Women Who Have Abortions Are Younger, Whiter And Wealthier". NPR. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  7. ^ Crockett, Emily (2015-12-29). "Your TV is lying to you about who has abortions". Vox. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  8. ^ "Perspective | Barrett is wrong: Adoption doesn't 'take care of' the burden of motherhood". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  9. ^ Sisson, Gretchen; Harrison, Jessica M. (2021-12-07). "What We Get Wrong About Adoption". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  10. ^ Sisson, Gretchen; Kimport, Katrina (2017-02-01). "Depicting abortion access on American television, 2005–2015". Feminism & Psychology. 27 (1): 56–71. doi:10.1177/0959353516681245. ISSN 0959-3535.
  11. ^ Sisson, Gretchen; Ralph, Lauren; Gould, Heather; Foster, Diana Greene (2017-03-01). "Adoption Decision Making among Women Seeking Abortion". Women's Health Issues. 27 (2): 136–144. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2016.11.007. ISSN 1049-3867.
  12. ^ Gubrium, Aline C.; Mann, Emily S.; Borrero, Sonya; Dehlendorf, Christine; Fields, Jessica; Geronimus, Arline T.; Gómez, Anu M.; Harris, Lisa H.; Higgins, Jenny A.; Kimport, Katrina; Luker, Kristin (2016-01-01). "Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC)". American Journal of Public Health. 106 (1): 18. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302900. PMID 26562116.
  13. ^ Sisson, Gretchen (2012-03-01). "Finding a Way to Offer Something More: Reframing Teen Pregnancy Prevention". Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 9 (1): 57–69. doi:10.1007/s13178-011-0050-5. ISSN 1553-6610.
  14. ^ "Team". WDN Action. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  15. ^ "2020 Is The Year Of The Woman Donor: Campaign Contributions Surge". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  16. ^ "Philanthropy's Role in a Post-Roe Reality". The San Francisco Foundation. 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
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