About AVFCA
Our Mission, Goals, & Values
A Voice for Choice Advocacy is a professional grassroots-based organization that educates, advocates and empowers people to be fully informed about their health rights, with respect to informed choice, transparency and privacy, including the composition, quality, and short- and long-term health effects of all products that go into people’s bodies, such as food, water, air, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
A Voice for Choice Advocacy was founded by Christina Hildebrand. Christina is passionate about ensuring people know what they are putting into their bodies – be it food, air or medications. For the past 10 years, Christina has spent many thousands of hours researching and sharing her knowledge within her local community. However, with the growth of The Big Ag and Big Pharma’s influences on US politics, Christina realized that she needed to take this to a different level and let the people’s Voice for Choice be heard in State legislatures, as well as on a national level. The many powerful grassroots groups need to come together and express themselves as one LOUD super powerful voice, rather than many hundreds of smaller voices.
Fiercly Dedicated
Christina has brought together a talented team, who work tirelessly on the issues which A Voice for Choice takes on. Her team is supported by the hundreds of vetted grassroots volunteers fighting for the common cause, as well as a network of resources and experts. This allows A Voice for Choice Advocacy to expand the team when necessary, but also keep overhead and costs low. A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc. and A Voice for Choice, Inc. are 100% financially funded by individual grassroots contributions, supported by countless donated volunteer hours. Christina donates all of her time without taking any form of payment for the thousands of hours she spends working on A Voice for Choice Advocacy issues.
Independent
A Voice for Choice Advocacy is an independent organization that does not have any formal ties to any other organization. Although, we help to form coalitions of individuals and partner with organizations supporting similar initiatives, to be able to speak out with a unified voice against the practices of the food, agriculture, and pharmaceutical industries that infringe on people’s rights to control what they put into their bodies.
A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc.
A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc. is our non-profit 501(c)(4) organization which:
- Advocates for people’s rights to make their own health care decisions
- Influences legislation and government policy related to these issues, including having a lobbyist consultant.
- Assists with litigation through a Legal Defense Fund, supported by some of the top lawyers in each area to allow those who are financially compromised to fight for their rights within the legal system.
A Voice For Choice Advocacy Board of Directors
Christina Hildebrand
Founder and President of A Voice for Choice, Inc. and A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc.
Christina has a degree in Statistics and modeling and has had a career in market research, owning her own firm for over 20 years. She also owns a Weston A Price based food delivery service in the San Francisco Bay area. Since 2005, after getting pregnant with her first daughter, she has conducted tens of thousands of hours of research on vaccines, including consulting with many leading vaccine researchers, in a quest to understand the reality rather than the hype of vaccines. She has also gone down the rabbit hole on a huge number of other issues, such as genetically modified organisms (GMOs), electromagnetic frequency (EMF), pesticides, fluoride, synthetic turf, and much more. Christina had the idea for A Voice for Choice a number of years prior, but did not have the time to start it, given her two small children and her two businesses. However, in 2015, in response to SB277 (the school vaccine mandate law in California), Christina felt that she needed to create a 501(c)4 to hire a lobbyist in Sacramento and so founded A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc. Christina spent every Monday-Wednesday with this lobbyist, during the 2015 legislative session lobbying against SB277 and SB792 (the child care employee vaccine mandate bill). Christina continues to lobby and create legislative relationships in Sacramento.
Shriee Srinivas
Board Member
Shriee has over 15 years of global and multicultural experience in working with children and their families. She has been privileged to be a part of a few leading and esteemed organizations such as VOICES, United Nations, UNESCO, London School of Speech, and many Montessori schools in Northern and Southern California. She has a plethora of global educational and professional experiences in child psychology, early childhood education, Montessori education, and work involved in non-profit organizations. She has a dual bachelors degree in communications, and psychology, an AMI primary Montessori diploma from Montessori Teachers Training Center in Northern California, leadership and mentoring training from Foothill College and Stanford University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in developmental (child) psychology, and bachelors in Christian theology.
While at the UN she traveled to many under-developed and developing countries such as South Africa, Guatemala, Burma, rural India to setup grassroots schools, radio stations for women empowerment, and worked on campaigns related to equal gender rights. As a part of a UNESCO assignment through VOICES — a non-profit organization focused on empowering under-privileged, backward, challenged, and low-income groups with equality and human rights — Shriee developed, designed and implemented a disabilities rights program in India, which was responsible for training the challenged mass of the society and passing the equal employment rights bill in India for inclusion of the disabled in corporate and government working sectors of India. Shriee helped implement a weekly radio program for the rural women of India and worked with the government of India to allocate an exclusive radio station to discuss topics of women equality, child rights, equal inclusions in work sectors, etc. She has filmed many socially relevant documentaries focusing on ‘respect for life’ as the basis of all her documentaries which were showcased at international documentary film festivals of India, Dubai, and Scotland. She worked at leading newspaper agencies which voiced equality and human rights subjects as their primary focus. For the last 10 years, Shriee has dedicated herself to the Montessori education — something her grandmother started when she had the privilege and honor of being trained by Dr. Maria Montessori in Chennai, India in 1939 — Shriee is now, the Co-Founder and CEO of Orion Montessori School in San Jose that is an AMI based Montessori school which focuses on empowering tomorrow’s leaders with plans to expand internationally by setting up an exclusive ‘Erdkinder’ (farm school) model ranging in Montessori education for ages 6 weeks to 18 years of age.
Kristie Sepulveda-Burchit
Board Member
Bio coming soon