Aunjrya’s Biography

Aunjrya is a Registered Nurse and IBCLC with over seven years of experience supporting people through some of the most tender, complex, and overlooked parts of their reproductive journeys. She is a Queer Black woman who believes people deserve to be witnessed, not just managed. Through personal insight and frontline care, she has seen how deeply systems can fail those they weren’t built for.

As Project Coordinator for Over-Represented, and Under-Protected at WomenatthecentrE, Aunjrya brings years of experience to a survivor-led, community-driven initiative focused on reproductive justice, gender-based violence, and systemic change. She comes to this work with honesty, compassion, and a commitment to making care less harmful and more humane.

“Tradition has sometimes told us that only certain kinds of people should study certain
subjects, or engage in certain sports, or play in an orchestra, or what have you, but tradition is about
what people have or have not done; it’s not about what they are capable of doing. And it’s not about
what they will be doing in the future.”

– Charmaine Wilkerson