SisterSong is the only national coalition in the U.S. of women of color organizations and individuals working to ensure reproductive justice for communities of color. The Collective was formed in 1997 by 16 women of color organizations with the shared recognition that we have the right and responsibility to represent ourselves and our communities, and the equally compelling need to advance the perspectives of women of color in the reproductive rights movement. The mission of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective is to amplify and strengthen the collective voices of Indigenous women and women of color to insure reproductive justice through securing our human rights. We fight equally for the right to have – and not to have – a child, and the necessary enabling conditions to realize these rights and to eliminate reproductive oppression. We represent five primary ethnic populations/Indigenous nations in the United States: Native American/Indigenous; Asian/Pacific Islander; Arab American/Middle Eastern/North African; Latina; and African American/Black/Caribbean/African. The Collective is a growing network of 80 organizations and more than 500 individuals, including white women and male allies who support our goal of improving the lives of women of color. In order to fulfill a need for a national network that would organize women of color in the reproductive rights movement, SisterSong incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization in 2006.