Fran Linkin (she/her) brings almost 20 years of experience in reproductive health and rights to the Director of State Policy role at the Guttmacher Institute, which she joined in 2026. In this role she leads state policy team strategy- informed by Guttmacher Institute data, analysis and state partnerships.
For seven years prior to joining the Guttmacher Institute, Fran was the Senior Director of Research on the State Innovation Exchange's Reproductive Freedom and Health Equity team where she built programming connecting the 700+ state legislators in SiX's Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council to data, resources, researchers and providers in the field. She held previous roles at the intersection of research, policy and litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. Fran received her MPH from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health in 2013.