[1] As a teenager, Hardeman spent time with her grandmother Ernestine Belton, a community activist who suffered from kidney disease and needed regular dialysis.

She became concerned that the changes to Title X proposed by the Trump administration would have significant consequences for marginalized communities, "It's an issue of reproductive justice and health equity.

Denying patients who are disproportionately poor, young and of racial [and] ethnic minorities access to reproductive health services is an injustice and an act of violence,".

[10] She believed that the disproportionate impact of coronavirus disease on ethnic minorities was exposing what was broken about United States healthcare,[11] arguing that it could provide an opportunity "to build a new system,".

[12] In response to the murder of George Floyd, Hardeman and Rhea Boyd called police violence and structural racism a public health crisis.

[13] She argued that contact tracing, considered by many to be essential to mitigating excess coronavirus disease deaths, would be difficult in communities that were deeply distrustful of institutions, particularly as they responded to police brutality.

[14] Hardeman said that while social media had exposed police brutality and offered a tool for organizing, "Having to relive those incidents over and over again is incredibly harmful for mental health and emotional wellbeing".