Bryan howard

Bryan Howard is a national leader in sexual health and reproductive rights, with a track record in both innovative start-ups and large legacy organizations.

In 2022 Bryan co-founded Project 50, a non-partisan organization whose mission is to secure abortion rights in every state.  Project 50 does so by investing in local organizations with the resources and expertise to win community support and political power for reproductive rights at the state level.

Bryan’s political accomplishments include building Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, a statewide 501c4 and PAC which raised and invested $1M in electing pro-choice leaders to state and local offices each election cycle.  As President of PPAA, Bryan worked to establish the Arizona Governor’s Commission on the Health Status of Women which provided public health policy analysis for over a decade.  He also worked closely with the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives and his staff on an abortion clinic licensing law.  Other of Bryan’s roles in public policy and electoral politics included Illinois’ Personal PAC board of directors in the 1990s and again since 2021, two terms with the Washington, DC-based Planned Parenthood Action Fund and PAC, and officer roles at Equality Arizona.

Previously, Bryan was CEO of Planned Parenthood Arizona, the healthcare organization serving the state’s 1.4 million reproductive age women.  During Bryan’s tenure PPAZ revolutionized its provision of reproductive healthcare and, in the process, replaced the organization’s entire network of health centers to provide affordable, patient-centered care to over 30,000 patients each year.  During Bryan’s time in the Planned Parenthood movement, he led national systems reform initiatives designed to improve the experience for Planned Parenthood’s patients and supporters across the country.  Bryan has also advised Yaso Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical research company developing a vaginal gel designed to prevent pregnancy and herpes transmission.

He has led as a board volunteer as well, chairing the governing boards of groundbreaking non-profit organizations including the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and Rewire News Group, the only national publication exclusively dedicated to reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice.  In the area of LGBTQ health and rights, for eight years Bryan was a board member and officer at Howard Brown Health, now one of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer organizations.

Bryan and his husband live in Chicago.