Who We Are

We envision access to comprehensive sexual health for adolescents throughout Alabama and advance our mission to champion healthy adolescent development through medically accurate and equitable sexual health education and services.

About the Alabama Campaign

The Alabama Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (doing business as the Alabama Campaign for Adolescent Sexual Health) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded on the belief that reducing the rate of teen pregnancy is one of the most direct means available to improve overall child well-being and reduce persistent poverty. Over the years we have expanded our mission to overall adolescent sexual health.

The Alabama Campaign was founded in 1999, and incorporated in 2002, in response to a deep concern among community leaders that Alabama had one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the United States. Alabama has made progress in reducing teen pregnancy since 1999, but even with that progress we remain ranked among the states with the highest rates of teen pregnancy. For the most recent teen pregnancy and birth data, click here.

Addressing adolescent sexual health requires the thoughtful and deliberate attention of parents/caregivers, youth, community leaders, educators, policy makers, faith leaders, and others who have an interest in the healthy development of Alabama’s children and youth. You can receive information and learn about adolescent sexual health in Alabama by signing up for our monthly newsletter.

BOARD OF

DIRECTORS

Shey Thorn – Chair
Five Horizons
Montgomery, AL

Michelle Jenkins, MBA, CPA – Treasurer
Accountant
Huntsville, AL

Michelle Anthony, MSN, RN - Secretary
Nurse
Montgomery, AL

Nic Carlisle, JD
University of Alabama - Birmingham, School of Medicine
Birmingham, AL

Tony Christon-Walker
HIV/AIDS advocate
Birmingham, AL

Mona Davis
The Gift of Life Foundation
Montgomery, AL

Foster Dickson
Huntingdon College
Montgomery, AL

Claire Estep
Virginia College of Medicine (VCOM)
Durham, NC

Eric Goodcase, PhD
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

Samantha Hill, MD, MPH
University of Alabama - Birmingham; Children's Hospital of Alabama
Birmingham, AL

Charles Jackson
Emerge Community Solutions; Auburn University Montgomery
Montgomery, AL

Nancy Buckner, Commissioner – ex-officio
Alabama Department of Human Resources

Scott Harris, MD, State Health Officer – ex-officio
Alabama Department of Public Health

STAFF

Christina Clark Okarmus, MPP

Executive Director

With over ten years of advocacy experience, Christina Clark Okarmus is leading the Alabama Campaign for Adolescent Sexual Health as Executive Director. Christina is committed to the right of young people in Alabama to receive sexual health education that is medically accurate, age-appropriate, inclusive, and free of bias and shame. She cares deeply about the ability of all people to have the knowledge, skills, and access to services to take care of their health.

Tell me more

Dedication
Christina previously served as the Policy and Outreach Manager for the Alabama Campaign. In that role she worked primarily on policy change and training around sexual health education for Alabama’s youth. Christina has facilitated workshops and curricula trainings for youth-serving professionals and coordinated the Campaign’s annual conference, Youth Advocacy Day, and regional workshops. She has had the opportunity to travel to the Alabama State House and Washington D.C. to advocate for sexual health education for young people. Christina has worked with the Gift of Life Foundation as Interim Director of their sexual health education program, VOICES for Alabama’s Children as Outreach Coordinator, and the Alabama Birth Coalition as President of the Board of Directors. She has also held internships with various government agencies and political candidates.

Experience
Christina is a member of ADPH Family Planning Advisory Committee, Alabama Arise, Church of the Ascension, Doula Training International, League of Women Voters, and Pi Gamma Mu. She has her Master of Public Policy from the University of Northern Iowa and her Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Contact
Christina Clark Okarmus, MPP
Executive Director
Pronouns: she/her
christina@alabamacampaign.org