Jen Jackson Quintano’s recent lecture at Smith College
PVP's Executive Director Jen Jackson Quintano recently spoke at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., bringing The Pro-Voice Project’s work into conversation with students, faculty, and community members through the lens of storytelling.
Her talk, “Staying as Resistance, Speaking as Rebellion: Abortion Storytelling and Cultural Rewilding in Red America,” explored how narrative can become a tool for courage, connection, and resistance in places where silence is often enforced by fear.
Drawing from PVP’s work in Idaho, Jen shared how community-rooted storytelling can "rewild" cultures, creating space for complexity, autonomy, and reciprocity.
The visit offered a powerful opportunity to connect PVP’s rural, place-based model with broader national conversations about reproductive freedom, narrative power, and what it means to stay engaged in contested communities.
