Katherine Riley (she/her/ella) joined All-Options as Deputy Director in February 2024. Katherine is a Mexican/Salvadoran-American, born and raised in Texas. Her lived experience with abortion, followed by an empowering and supported birth ten years later, and her work as a doula, have deepened Katherine’s commitment to reproductive and birth justice. She’s a relationship-builder, connector, and strategist, with a strong equity framework and social work lens.In her previous role as the Policy Director at COLOR, a Latine-serving reproductive justice organization, Katherine is proud to have led in the passage of the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which protects the right to abortion, birth, and contraception in Colorado; to have expanded prenatal and postpartum health coverage to immigrants, regardless of citizenship; and to have prohibited deceptive practices from anti-abortion centers in the state. Other work experience includes managing a bilingual helpline that connects immigrants to perinatal resources, like doulas, diaper banks, baby gear, and more; serving as a high-school social worker for pregnant and parenting young people; and conducting international humanitarian research on programs for refugee women and girls.
Katherine is proud to be a founding member of b.e.s.o. (birth equity statewide operations) for birth centers, which exists to provide operational infrastructure for a network of community-based birth centers, and to serve on the Board of The Village Institute, a holistic family support center serving refugee and immigrant families in her neighborhood.
Katherine loves dancing, cooking, camping and travel – she’s hoping to make it to 50 countries by age 50 – and is a mom to her two-year old daughter and two cats. She has a BA in Physical Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a dual-Master’s in Social Work and International Development from the University of Denver.