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Claire is a white woman with curly shoulder-length brown hair who stands smiling outside. She has on dark cat eye glasses and wears a brown and gray patterned jacket with a black top underneath.

Claire McNorton

Planned Parenthood Illinois Action
Program Manager of Advocacy and Campaigns
She/her
Fellow
2022

Claire is the Program Manager of Advocacy and Campaigns at Planned Parenthood of Illinois and founded the first Disability Advocacy and Organizing Program at any Planned Parenthood nationwide.

She graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2016 and has spent her career dedicated to advocacy and nonprofit work and promoting equity and justice. Claire's greatest passion is mental health care reform and eliminating the stigma surrounding mental illness.

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Interests
Community Inclusion, Disability, Policy and Advocacy
Expertise
Program Development, Public Policy, Community Organizing and Outreach