Elevated Access

We’re so incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural orgs supported by Ariana Grande and her new The Brighter Days Ahead Foundation foundation! It takes a community to support a community, and we couldn’t do it without financial support, partners (some of whom also received funding), volunteer pilots, staff, ground support volunteers, and - above all - passengers who trust us to get them from A to B.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🎉🎉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Who’s excited to get the party started?!

Part of our celebration of the month will again include content from many of the staff, sharing their favorite parts of Pride, LGBTQIA+ history, and more! Reproductive justice is for people living as themselves, and Pride is a fantastic display of that value.

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At Elevated Access, as in all aviation, we live by the mantra: “No matter what else happens, fly the plane.”

To celebrate our four-year anniversary, we've been given an incredible opportunity by generous match donors to raise $80,000 in just 24-hours. Your donation will be doubled! Visit elevatedaccess.org/anniversary to donate today!

We have a booth at one of the biggest aviation events of the year, the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo! We’ll be busy spreading the word about reproductive justice and gathering volunteer pilots to support the cause. If you’re there, come say hello to us in Exhibitor Hangar B!

We see you and celebrate you. And we’re here to help overcome some of the barriers people try to put in your way.

We’ve flown our passengers over 2 million miles in support of access to abortion and gender-affirming care. We wish healthcare was more accessible, but we’re glad we can help whenever it’s not.

We’re celebrating Black history month by calling attention to Black aviation professionals. The Challenger Air Pilots Association started in Chicago in 1924 with powerhouse Black aviators like Cornelius Coffey, Johnny Robinson, and Willa Brown. Members of the club taught integrated classes for mechanics and pilots alike.

If you’d like to learn more about these aviation icons, the book American Wings by Sherri L. Smth and Elizabeth Wein tells stories of their efforts.

(We’re also really excited to attend the annual conference in Chicago this summer for their 50th anniversary. It seems fitting for Chicago to host this anniversary event.)

What we’ve seen the last few weeks is an escalation but not a new discovery. We all live within structures of oppression which includes white supremacy, patriarchy, and unfettered capitalism. When people work to oppose and deconstruct those systems, those systems fight back, even against the people who have benefited from them the most. It’s as old as America with the rise of Trump being perhaps the greatest symptom.

But there’s hope. More and more people are speaking up, stepping up. More and more people see what’s happening and say this isn’t right. There is power when we step forward together. There is power when one person stepping forward makes space for another person to rest. Yesterday was best to take action, today is next best.

Today we might feel the injustice in American society more than we did yesterday. Even the things that do not affect us directly have an effect on us. Dr. King knew this, and it means we all have work to do for a more just society.

Everything is connected: abortion rights, trans rights, birth justice, racism, immigration, income inequality, housing, food insecurity, and more. Each of us can do something today for a better society.

We’ve been taking a rest after a busy year helping folks access abortion and gender-affirming care, and we’re expecting to be even busier in 2026 when we return Monday. We’ve brought our creativity and persistence to the movement, and we’re bringing even more of the same to our efforts this year.

Still walkin’, still talkin,’ still flyin’.

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