NH’s Pro-Choice Leadership Team

Meet New Hampshire’s Pro-Choice Leadership Team: Pilar Olivo, Susan Arnold, Monica Ciolfi, and Liz Hager.

After seven years as a volunteer board leader, Pilar Olivo is the interim executive director for NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire. Susan Arnold is Board Chari of NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire. Monica Ciolfi leads the board NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire Foundation. Former Republican state representative Liz Hager is the chair of the NARAL Pro-Choice NH PAC.

“This team has the energy, the commitment, and the know-how to continue and heighten the vitality of this critical pro-choice organization,” said interim Executive Director Olivo.

Olivo has been an active in the reproductive rights movement since 1989—when she began as a clinic escort at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, MA. In 1991, she was a volunteer coordinator in Washington for the state-wide citizen initiative campaign that codified Roe v. Wade. For the state senate elections in 1994, she was NPCNH’s electoral organizer. She served as NPCNH’s board treasurer from 1995-1997. For the past nine years, Olive devoted her time to raising her three children and local volunteer activities in Concord.

Arnold was the political director of NARAL Pro-Choice NH from 1988-1996 under long-time director Peg Dobbie before serving as board chair from 2002-2006. Arnold was the director of policy for Governor Jeanne Shaheen from 1997-2002. She is now the director of conservation for the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Ciolfi has been active in the local pro-choice community since 1989, when she joined the Board of the New Hampshire Family Planning Council. She has been a NARAL Pro-Choice NH Board member since 2004. Ciolfi lives in Concord and administers the state employee health benefit program.

Hager is a longtime leader in the pro-choice community in New Hampshire. While a legislator, she led the successful repeal of the state’s unconstitutional parental notice law. She received NPCNH’s Champion for Choice Award in 2009 and is currently the chair of the NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC. Hager is the executive director of the United Way of Merrimack County.