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Amy Elizabeth Alterman

Teaching Fellow, Department of World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

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About Amy

Alterman's research focuses on stand-up comedy and theatre-based abortion education and advocacy interventions. Alterman's overarching themes in writings include uses of humor for stigma reduction; gender discrimination as a barrier for health access; and performances of governmentality and reproductive governance. Alterman serves as a volunteer researcher for the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health and as the founder and lead coordinator of the UCLA Graduate Student Art & Health Collaborative. Alterman additionally volunteers with the  Abortion Access Front; the subject of her dissertation research project.

Contributions

How City Policymakers Can Address Verbal Harassment at Abortion Clinics

  • Amy Elizabeth Alterman
  • Rebecca S. Lentjes

We Won. Now What? Support Indie Clinics

No Jargon Podcast