Dalia Vidunas

Dalia is a hero. As the Executive Director of the Equality Health Center, located in Concord, New Hampshire, Dalia lead the Center’s team, without any interruption, to ensure continued access to sexual and reproductive health care to New Hampshire’s most vulnerable populations through even the most trying days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure of many doctor’s offices and local business during the Spring of 2020 made it more difficult that usual for New Hampshire residents to access their reproductive and sexual health care needs. Knowing that the need for such services would not abate during the pandemic, Dalia acted to quickly to implement safety measures and programs to ensure the safety of the Equality Health Center’s staff and patients and to ensure continued access to care, even through the ongoing public health and economic crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dalia deserves recognition for the time, effort, and risk she has gracefully faced over the last year. Because of her leadership and the continued efforts of the team at the Equality Health Center, countless members of our community had continuing access to services such as birth control and family planning, abortion care, behavioral health care, pregnancy and options counseling, gynecological care, HIV testing and prevention, LGBTQ health services, men’s sexual health, miscarriage management, STD/STI testing and treatment, teen health services, and transgender health services that these individuals might not have had access to otherwise. Dalia is a hero because she is a true feminist in all respects. Not only does she unwaveringly believe in and support the concepts of feminism, but her life’s work has been dedicated to its conceptual core: the achievement of the full social, political, and economic equality of all people. For that, Dalia deserves recognition. Thank you for all that you do, Dalia.