confirmed speakers

Bita Amani, Ph.D.

Co-Founder and Co-Director of BMHCE, Associate Professor at Charles Drew University’s Department of Urban Public Health (CDU’s DUPH)

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

Alicia D. Bonaparte, PhD

Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College

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

Brandi Desjolais, EdD Co-Director, Black Maternal Health Center of Excellence, College of Science and Health, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

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

Tenesha Duncan, MA, MBA

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Orchid Capital Collective

Kimberly Durdin, LM, CPM, IBCLC, Co-founder of Kindred Space, LA, Licensed Midwife, Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Childbirth Educator, and Doula Trainer

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

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

Jennie Joseph, LM
Founder & President of Commonsense Childbirth 

Breana Lipscomb
Senior Advisor, Maternal Health  & Rights

Audrey Luck, LM

President of the Midwives Association of Florida

Dr. Ebony Marcelle, DNP, CNM FACNM, Director of Midwifery at Community of Hope

Shafia Monroe 

of Shafia Monroe Consulting/ Birthing CHANGE, President 

Janell Moore, MPH, LM, CPM, Midwife, Educator & Public Health Consultant, Jasiri Midwifery

Uloma Nwogu, DrPHc
Claremont Graduate University

Jessica Roach

Chief Executive Officer & Partner, Restoring Our Own Through Transformation

Janette Robinson Flint
Executive Director, Black Women for Wellness

K. Sanderson
Media Director, Southern Birth Justice Network

Karen Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG
Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist, Founding CEO & Owner

Karie E Stewart, MPH, MSN, CNM Certified Nurse Midwife

Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA
Co-founder of Birth Center Equity & Birth Detroit