Candace Clark Trinchieri is an award-winning author, advocate, and Board Member of The Pad Project, a global nonprofit advancing menstrual equity and reproductive justice. Her advocacy is grounded in lived experience, including years navigating infertility, endometriosis, and barriers to reproductive care, which ultimately led her to parenthood through open adoption.

Candace works to dismantle the systemic and cultural barriers that keep girls out of school, from period poverty and stigma to gaps in reproductive health education. Through global advocacy, policy work, and storytelling, she centers education, health, and dignity as inseparable human rights across the arc of a woman’s life.