Date and Time
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2026 | 2 PM ET/11 AM PT | ZOOM
Speaker
Jenice Fountain
Executive Director, Yellowhammer Fund
Read Bio
Jenice Fountain is a mother of three that entered Reproductive Justice work before she had language for it. She was navigating near homelessness and needing resources including abortion care despite working 50 hours a week. She founded Margins: Women Helping Black Women to fill the intentional gaps that Black parents fall through due to heavily stigmatized services in Alabama. Margins addressed the financial and material needs of Black parents in Birmingham. She brings this Family Justice lens to her role as E.D of The Yellowhammer Fund, an abortion advocacy and Reproductive Justice Organization in Alabama. She also serves as Board President of Alabama Values, a comms hub dedicated to platforming the work happening in the state. “My journey is fueled by rage, radical imagination and fierce love for my community. I am grounded in the belief that we can create what we need.”
Event Description
This session will explore the necessity of shared power, collective work and solidarity to build infrastructures of care in one of the most hostile states to give birth. For ABEI, connection is the intervention. It links community wisdom to clinical care, local networks to statewide systems, and immediate needs to structural change. In Alabama, connection must be built intentionally between doulas and doctors, organizers and clinics, data and lived experience. This initiative shows how shared care practices create both healing and accountability. By strengthening the ties between those most impacted and those in positions to respond, ABEI demonstrates that “The Power of Connection” is not just thematic—it’s the framework through which birth equity becomes achievable and sustainable in the Deep South.
About Yellowhammer Fund
Yellowhammer Fund (YHF) builds comprehensive care infrastructure in communities that public systems have abandoned. We are a Black women-led reproductive justice organization serving Alabama and Mississippi, states where abortion is banned, contraception access is inconsistent, healthcare systems are collapsing, and families navigate an environment shaped by criminalization, stigma, and institutional neglect.
Our work integrates movement building, mutual aid, and direct support into a unified practice. We distribute emergency contraception and safer-sex supplies, coordinate abortion travel and logistics, provide financial assistance and navigation services, and build the capacity of grassroots organizations. This care work is not separate from organizing. It is the organizing. Every resource we provide, every barrier we remove, every person we support builds the relationships and trust that enable community power.