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  • Recently, Birth Companions community outreach leaders Izzey Chapman, Katharine Peterson, and Lexy Olson presented their program at Kick It with the Candidates, an event that hosted by the Baltimore Urban League, Baltimore NAACP, Zeta Phi Beta, to introduce the community to candidates running for mayor in Baltimore. They connected with Mayor Brandon Scott and candidates […]
  • It is not a new concept to have someone support women and birthing people during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Doulas, or labor birth companions, typically women, have been an integral part of childbearing throughout history; they provide information, patient advocacy, and physical support. Doulas increase a person’s satisfaction with the birthing experience, raise the likelihood […]
  • Last year, the Supreme Court overturned Affirmative Action. The decision means that schools can no longer legally consider race as a determining factor for a student’s admission. As a result, educational institutions need to find new methods to achieve their goal of matriculating a student body that reflects the diversity of the real world. But […]
  • If you weren’t there, you should have seen it, and felt it. As we launched the Institute for Policy Solutions—surrounded by thought leaders and difference makers—at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, it was a capital m “Moment.” Introducing the Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and its inaugural leaders, […]
  • Natalia Barolin has been on the delivery end of well-intentioned programs meant to address health inequities but that didn’t always work well in practice. The disconnect was obvious, and its impact was multifaceted. “I worked in a federally qualified health center. … I was the nurse in charge of implementing [programs] in our clinic, and […]