Sexual Wellbeing & Reproductive Health Equity Education
Desireé Caro, MSW
Providing nonprofit organizations, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and caregivers with up-to-date, culturally relevant, and reliable consulting, coaching, and training resources rooted in intersectional frameworks and sexual and reproductive justice.
Desireé Caro is a sexual and reproductive health (SRH) equity leader who works at the intersection of sexual and reproductive wellness, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, and sexual violence prevention. She hold a MS in Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work with a concentration in Social Enterprise Administration, specializing in Contemporary Social Issues.
Desiree is passionate about ensuring high quality, equitable, and accessible education related to reproductive health and justice for all, but especially marginalized communities.
Desiree has a documented record of success in designing, developing, and implementing capacity building initiatives across the fields of primary/secondary/higher education and SRH healthcare settings, including technical assistance for quality improvement related to workflows/policy and procedures, client/community experience, staff retention, Quality Improvement Learning Collaboratives, train-the trainer education, and webinars that improve individual and organizational performance in achieving reproductive health equity, providing gender-affirming care, and implementing sexual violence prevention measures.
A seasoned project director, facilitator, consultant, and equity coach, Desiree applies a collaborative and client-centered approach to achieving desired outcomes and providing solutions to complex community issues.
Femifesto
The concept of a holistic approach to culturally relevant, accurate, and authentic health education should not be radical. Everyone deserves access to knowledge, information, and healing to help them build power and shape their lived experience in the world regardless of race, gender, income, age, ability, sexuality, ability, family structure, or mental health. People deserve to be treated as though they are experts in their own experiences.
Having grown up in the Bronx in an education system that was invested in keeping me in the dark about my identity and my body, I have a first hand understanding of whats at stake when we don't provide spaces for young people to explore the parts of themselves that society tells them that isn’t okay to explore. I work to build spaces of liberation and rebellion for young people directly and indirectly by arming both young people and the adults in their lives with the education, information, and love that they need to create the world they envision for themselves.
