Michelle Kinsey Bruns is an advocate for safety and privacy of abortion clinic patients and staff. She has served as a clinic defender, escort, organizer, or observer at anti-choice protests in nine states. A social media user since receiving her sixdegrees.com invitation in 1998 and a coder and writer for the web since before the invention of the word "blog," when not behind a keyboard or in front of a clinic, Michelle is most likely splashing through a creek with her Siberian huskies, making a tasty mess in her kitchen, or planning a road trip.

Read more about some of her recent work at the links below.

• "How Clinic Escorts Work," Stuff Mom Never Told You, March 21, 2018
• "A Compendium of Resistance: Comics for Choice Fights for Reproductive Justice," Women Write About Comics, February 6, 2018
• "Power of Choice 2017: Award Recipients," NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, May 2017
• "Return To Wichita: 25 Years After The Summer Of Mercy, The Rescue Movement Plots Its Next Steps," Right Wing Watch, October 2016
• "Rally to Protect Abortion Access," Center for Reproductive Rights, March 2, 2016
• "More And More Women Are Unwilling To Accept Shame For Their Abortions," ThinkProgress, February 24, 2016
• "Abortion Providers and Escorts to Join Rep. Donna F. Edwards and Reproductive Rights Leaders to Urge House Select Investigative Panel to Focus on Anti-Abortion Violence, or to Disband," PR Newswire, January 19, 2016
• "2016 Abortion Speakout - The People's Brief," 1 in 3 Campaign, January 19, 2016
• "Why One Woman Is An Abortion Clinic Patient Escort," The Alan Colmes Show on Fox News Radio, December 16, 2015
• "Las mujeres toman las redes sociales contra el estigma del aborto," El País, December 15, 2015
• "Meet The People Who Provide Protection At Abortion Clinics," ThinkProgress, December 9, 2015
• "After Tweeting about 100 Anti-Abortion Attacks, Here's What One Clinic Escort Hopes Will Change," Upworthy, December 1, 2015
• "40 Years of Attacks on Abortion Clinics, Mapped," Vox, December 1, 2015
• "The Radical, Unrepentant Ideology of Abortion Clinic Killers," Washington Post, November 30, 2015
• "#is100enough: How Many Antichoice Attacks, Threats & Incitements Until You Admit Clinic Violence Is Real?," Storify, November 29, 2015
• "The Assault on Abortion in Alabama," Fusion, November 5, 2015
• "Short Takes: Katha Pollit's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights," Signs Journal, October 7, 2015
• "Board of Health Votes To Rescind Hospital Building Standards for Abortion Clinics," Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 17, 2015
• "Postcards from the Vag: A Frank & Funny Storytelling Show About Abortion," Black Cat DC, August 28, 2015
• "Meet The Women Who Make Abortions Possible," Refinery29, January 22, 2015
• "My Abortion Wasn't Tragedy, Trauma, or Pain," America Tonight on Al Jazeera America, December 1, 2014
• "The New Front in the Abortion Fight," The Stream on Al Jazeera English, October 14, 2014
• "Dissecting the SCOTUS Buffer Zone Ruling," Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC, June 28, 2014
• "#notcounseling: What Really Happens Outside Clinics," Storify, June 26, 2014
• "Why Abortion Clinic Protestors May Not Matter," TIME, June 26, 2014
• "A TRAP Tantrum in Manassas," NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Blog, March 7, 2014
• "Forever Organizing: Support Former NOI Staff," Indiegogo Generosity, February 13, 2015
• "Why Abortion Clinics Need Buffer Zones," ThinkProgress, January 15, 2014
• "Get Out of My Exam Room," Ms. Magazine, Fall 2013
• "#exposePP Turned on Its Head to Expose Support for Planned Parenthood," RH Reality Check, June 5, 2013
• "Facebook's Turning Point on Sexual Violence," CNN.com, May 30, 2013
• "Facebook Promises To Stop Treating Photos Of Breast Cancer Scars Like Pornography," ThinkProgress, June 12, 2013
• "The Abortion Clinic Escort Who Leads Patients Past Protesters," BuzzFeed, February 13, 2013
• "Pro-choice on Amtrak: The Time I Told a Group of Anti-Choice Teenagers about My Abortion," Feministing, January 29, 2013
• "Why the FCC Needs a Woman in Charge," The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, January 11, 2013
• "When Rape Jokes Aren't Funny," CNN.com, July 16, 2012
• "'16 and Pregnant' Brings Abortion to Prime Time," Women's Media Center, April 4, 2012
• "Please Stop with the Giant Bellies. Please," Pandagon, September 1, 2011
• "Summer of Mercy/Summer of Choice Protesters Dig in Outside Carhart's Md. Clinic," Washington Independent, August 8, 2011
• "38 Years of Roe v. Wade," Center for Reproductive Rights, January 10, 2011

Photo Credits: Profile photo at the Rally to Protect Abortion Access at the U.S. Supreme Court, March 2, 2016, by the Center for Reproductive Rights. Background photo at Summer Celebration of Choice at Germantown (Maryland) Reproductive Health, July 31, 2011, by the Washington Post.