“For those of you that are coming in mostly not knowing anything,” Jamie Kantrowitz, co-founder of the Los Angeles Women’s Collective Political Action Committee, warned the group of women gathered in her home, “this is going to shock you.”

Kantrowitz, along with co-hosts Sabrina Mallick, managing member of Sunset Ventures, and Hannah Linkenhoker, chief engagement officer at the law firm Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, invited the group into her living room last Thursday to hear from Katy Brodsky Falco, the founder and executive director of the nascent Foundation for Women’s Health (FWH).

Dr. Marlena Fejzo and Dr. Kimberly Narain, both of whom sit on the Foundation’s esteemed Medical Advisory Board, joined Falco for a conversation about the state of women’s health research. 

Through their discussion, Kantrowitz was proven right as the room filled with collective gasps of surprise and groans of frustration. It was a fitting introduction to an organization borne of the same sentiment.

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