Nancy Miriam Hawley is an activist and feminist who contributed to the founding of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
[2] Hawley is also a clinical social worker, group therapist, principal clinical social worker for the Cambridge Hospital of Harvard Medical School, an organizational consultant and coach to business executives, and CEO of Enlightenment, Inc.[1] She has worked with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's board to help create ways to influence future health related issues.
[4] In 2004, when reflecting on the 35th birthday of the first meeting, Hawley said, "We weren't encouraged to ask questions, but to depend on the so-called experts.
"[5] At a conference organized by the Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University, Hawley claimed she had one burning question: "what's in this birth control pill?"
When the conference drew to a close, the conversation failed to end, and the aftermath of the workshop is where Our Bodies, Ourselves was born.
Women began researching information about their bodies from their personal experience and then sharing their findings with everyone else.