RESEARCHER · BUILDER · BIOETHICIST · ORGANIZER
I’m Amanda “Andi” Beaudouin, MS, a reproductive-science researcher and medical-humanities and business graduate student designing more imaginative, equitable futures for health.
01 / THE THROUGHLINE
My work lives where reproductive biology, ethics, technology, and lived experience meet. I ask not only what we can build or discover, but who it serves, whose body it imagines, and what becomes possible when equity is part of the method from the beginning.
02 / SELECTED WORK
A living archive of research, experiments, teaching, and community care.
RESEARCH / PCOS + EARLY LIFE
Investigating human milk composition, maternal metabolic health, and infant growth through a reproductive endocrinology and developmental-origins lens.
DESIGN / FEMTECH
A growing studio of ideas spanning fertility preservation, gender-affirming care, sexual medicine, pelvic-floor health, and humane digital health.
TEACHING / REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
An eight-week reproductive justice course designed for the Northwestern Prison Education Program at Cook County Jail.
03 / RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
How might polycystic ovary syndrome shape the nutritional and hormonal environment of human milk?
In the Torchen Pediatric Endocrinology Lab at Lurie Children’s, I studied maternal metabolic health, milk composition, feeding patterns, and infant growth. The work brings reproductive endocrinology into conversation with lactation science and the developmental origins of health and disease.
These findings are observational and should not be read as clinical guidance. Next questions include larger samples, androgen metabolites, environmental exposures, mediation, and 24-month follow-up.
04 / THE IDEA LAB
Products and research concepts for bodies routinely treated as edge cases.
Learning technology · MCAT diagnostic
Adaptive practice, review, focus, and a complete four-section, 230-question diagnostic that routes results into Quest to 528.
PlayMCAT game
A four-realm playable quest where every answer advances the run and every miss becomes a study mission.
BeginRelationship health
A shared-life app for care, health, intimacy, planning, and the tiny rituals that hold people together.
✦Bioengineering concept
A responsive dilator concept exploring pressure, contraction tracking, comfort, and post-surgical sexual health.
✦Private pilot · Research operations
A working expert-research operations hub for references, outreach, tasks, rate review, compliance, and evidence of impact.
EnterGraphic medicine
An autobiographical visual story about pain, medical language, care, knowledge, and finding a voice.
Read05 / COMMUNITY PRACTICE
Organizing with Students for Reproductive Justice, ASEC’s EC for Every Campus, Techies for Reproductive Justice, and community partners.
Designing “Bodies, Ethics, and Power” and translating complex health and ethics questions into useful, human conversations.
Building accessible research and health education through iCAN for All, Health Equity Rounds, and community-engaged reproductive health work.
06 / FIELD NOTES
From Loyola biology to Northwestern reproductive science and bioethics, each chapter has widened the question: how can medicine become more precise, more creative, and more accountable to people?
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Graduate study in progress
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute
Co-author · Reproduction
Loyola University Chicago · Minors in Chemistry, Anthropology, French Language, and Women’s Studies & Gender Studies · Completed all but one course toward a Mathematics minor
07 / SELECTED RECOGNITION + ROLES
ALSO THINKING ABOUT
08 / BOOKS + GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Graphic medicine gives lived experience a visual language. I’m developing a graphic novel about chronic illness, the bodies medicine struggles to read, and the strange, tender work of building a life inside uncertainty.
WORK IN PROGRESS
PANEL 01 / THE BODY
A visual memoir of symptoms, adaptation, grief, humor, care, and the daily negotiations chronic illness asks of a person.
PANEL 02 / THE SYSTEM
An exploration of clinical encounters, diagnostic uncertainty, and the gap between what patients live and what medicine knows how to measure.
PANEL 03 / THE POSSIBILITY
Research, medical humanities, and comics meet in a narrative that refuses to flatten disability into tragedy or triumph.
09 / SEE ME IN THE WILD
Research is the throughline, but curiosity has never stayed in one lane. Outside the lab, I teach movement, support feeding journeys, stream, and make health and life online feel more human.
MOVEMENT
CARE
LIVE
CREATE
professional multihyphenate, recreational overachiever ★
OPEN TO COLLABORATION
For research collaborations, speaking, community projects, and imaginative health-tech work.
Say hello ✦