planning committee

ORGANIZERS

Alicia D. Bonaparte, PhD Author, Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College

Keisha Goode, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY Old Westbury

Monica McLemore, Ph.D., MPH, RN Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, University of California,
San Francisco

STEERING COMMITTEE

Jamarah Amani, LM, Community Midwife, Founder of the National Black Midwives Alliance and the Executive Director of the Southern Birth Justice Network

Kelly Davis, MPA
Executive Director, New Voices for Reproductive Justice; Co-Founder and Chief Equity Officer at KINSHIFT

Michelle Drew, DNP, MPH, CNM, FNP-C
Executive and Clinical Director, UBUNTU Black Family Wellness Collective

Martine Hackett, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Hofstra University

Jennie Joseph, LM
Founder & President of Commonsense Childbirth

Zoë Julian, MD, MPH Obstetrician/ Gynecologist, Wellstar

Karen Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG
Founding CEO, and Owner of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC