On Monday, March 29th, the African American Policy Forum along with National Birth Equity Collaborative will host a panel with healthcare practitioners and researchers to examine the experiences of Black women in the US healthcare system. This groundbreaking event will focus on key Black women’s health concerns including maternal health, reproductive care access, stereotyping and mistreatment, and the intersectional failures that lead to Black women’s disproportionate vulnerabilities and disparate outcomes. By challenging prevailing injustices and debunking widespread misinformation, this star-studded panel will map the road to greater compassion and equity for Black women’s health care.

Panelists:

Dr. Joia Crear-Perry is the founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative and a thought leader around racism as a root cause of health inequities, speaker, trainer, advocate, policy expert, and fighter for justice. Previously, she served as the executive director of the Birthing Project, Director of Women’s and Children’s Services at Jefferson Community Healthcare Center, and as the director of Clinical Services for the City of New Orleans Health Department where she was responsible for four facilities that provided health care for the homeless, pediatric, WIC, and gynecologic services within the New Orleans clinical service area.

Dr. Karen Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG is a Reproductive Justice (RJ) informed sexual, reproductive, and perinatal (SPR) epidemiologist, educator, and obstetric hospitalist with more than 20 years of experience in supporting persons across the sexual and reproductive life course in high need, low resource communities, across different practice types and locations throughout the Midwest and Northern and Central California.

Dr. Alisha Liggett is a board-certified family medicine doctor, with a clinical practice based in New York City. After completing the Family and Social Medicine Residency program at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, she completed a fellowship in HIV medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. Since completing her training, she has honed her passion for women's health and has worked in clinics caring for medically disenfranchised clients all over New York City. She has authored several published articles, trained dozens of health care practitioners, and taught health education seminars in her community.

Dr. Gail Wyatt a Clinical Psychologist, is a board-certified Sex Therapist and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior at UCLA. She directs the Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities and the Sexual Health Programs. Dr. Wyatt has published well over 250 publications, written six books and has provided Congressional testimony 10 times. "Stolen Women: Reclaiming our Sexuality, Taking Back our Lives" by Wiley and Sons, is a best-seller that details the effects of slavery and oppression on African American women today.

Moderator:

Kimberlé Crenshaw is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters!, the moderator of the webinar series Under The Blacklight, and a Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. She is popularly known for projects that she has named, such as “intersectionality,” “Critical Race Theory,” and the #SayHerName Campaign, and is a leading authority on Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law. In early 2021, she received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools.

**** Registration for this conversation is through Eventbrite. All interested attendees will receive a link to the live-stream on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded. ****

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About Her Dream Deferred

Her Dream Deferred: A Week on the Status of Black Women is a week-long series of conversations and virtual events focused on elevating the crisis facing Black women and girls in our country. Black women, girls, and femmes have continually been on the front lines of progressive social movements, yet the challenges they face at the intersections of race and gender have consistently been relegated to the margins of dominant racial and gender justice discourses. Since its inception, the annual Her Dream Deferred week has countered that marginalization by amplifying the voices and narratives of Black women and girls and providing the tools to dismantle the structural barriers that plague them in their homes, schools, and communities.

To learn more, please visit: www.aapf.org/hdd

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Please join AAPF for other events during #HerDreamDeferred 2021:

Monday, March 29th: When Misogynoir is a Pre-existing Condition

Tuesday, March 30th: Engendering the Politics of Black Athletes

Wednesday, March 31st: Mini Film Festival (Day 1): Coded Bias

Thursday, April 1st: Mini Film Festival (Day 2): A Love Song for Latasha

Friday, April 2nd: Mini Film Festival (Day 3): Still I Rise

Tuesday, April 6th: A Space for Ritual Healing