Fridays at Newcomb: Lesley Greene and Diana Greene Foster, “Study of the Consequences of Unwanted Pregnancy: Science, Art and Conversations about Abortion”
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Diboll Gallery
- Lesley Lisa Greene (playwright) is a playwright, composer, sound designer and event producer based in Ithaca, NY. She worked for over twenty years at the Kitchen Theatre Company, working on dozens of productions in various capacities and helping to grow the organization. She is co-director of Story House Ithaca and co-founded and continues to be an organizer of Porchfest, a music festival that began in Ithaca in 2007 and now takes place in more than 225 cities across North America. She is also the sister of Turnaway Study author Diana Greene Foster! Lesley Lisa Greene
- Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer and professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She led the United States Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion, including both women who do and do not receive the abortion. She is leading a study of the health, legal and economic consequences of the end of Roe in the United States and a Turnaway Study in Nepal. She was named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and is the author of over 130 scientific papers as well as the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She is also the sister of Turnaway Play author Lesley Greene!
