History

The History of Students for Choice at Willamette University

1993, 1994
  • Students Summer Boslaugh and Heather Heoll form the new student organization, Willamette Community for Choice. The organization focuses on pro-choice programming and campus awareness. They sponsored programs and events such as the Coat Hanger project around the Young Women's Day of Action and reading pro-choice stories in the Bistro along with panels on pro-choice issues. The organizaton also published articles in the student newspaper, the Collegian. Members of the group also attended the Fight the Right rally and march in San Francisco in 1996. Summer Boslaugh and 75 other Willamette students attended.

    1997
  • Summer Boslaugh graduates from Willamette University and Willamette Community for Choice does not continue as a student organization.

    October, 1999
  • Students Nat Okey and Allie Cowen found the new student organization, Students for Choice at Willamette University. The new organization focuses on clinic escorting in Eugene, OR and working with Oregon NARAL.

  • Students for Choice works extensively with Tess Fields, the Outreach Coordinator, from Oregon NARAL.

    February, 2000
  • Nat Okey creates first website for Students for Choice which catalogues all of SFC's activities and events and provides information about SFC and reproductive rights. http://www.willamette.edu/org/sfc.

    August, 2000
  • Nat Okey takes over leadership of SFC as Allie Cowen returns to being full time Director of the Women's Center.

  • Susannah Porter, the new Oregon NARAL Outreach Coordinator helps Students for Choice organize during the fall and with the November, 2000 election.

    January, 2001
  • Erin Anderson, the new Oregon NARAL Outreach Coordinator begins working with Students for Choice.

    Spring, 2001
  • Students for Choice affiliates with Choice USA

    May, 2002
  • Nat Okey graduates and turns over leadership of SFC to students Jenn Heidt, Lesley Meyer, and Avi Katz.

    August, 2002
  • Students Jenn Heidt, Lesley Meyer, and Avi Katz continue the legacy of Students for Choice at Willamette.


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