Warner knows she can’t end homelessness, but thinks she can at least make menstruation less of a burden for some of the women living on LA’s streets. This plays to her larger goal of normalizing and de-stigmatizing periods.

In addition to her efforts with Happy Period, Warner is involved in other “period positive” missions through LA. A big one is the fight against the “tampon tax.”

Warner is working with assemblywoman Cristina Garcia in her effort to end a tax on feminine products, which costs Californian women $20.2 million annually. In September, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Garcia’s bill, but Garcia is rewriting it for a 2017 vote.

While eliminating this tax could help make feminine products more accessible to women in need, Warner says there will still be work to be done, because of course, these products won’t be free.

6 states have waived the tampon tax, and in June, New York became the first state to pass a measure requiring public schools, homeless shelters and prisons to offer free feminine products, a historic decision that passed in a 49-0 vote.

Warner is hopeful that California will follow suit. She and her charged community of pro-period volunteers plan to raise awareness about the bill. “Some people still actually don’t know it’s taxed in their state, yet there’s some states where bubble gum isn’t taxed, condoms aren’t taxed, pop tarts aren’t taxed.“