Birthing Black Bodies- Memory Work, Reclamation, and the Fight for Reproductive Justice

December 4th, 2025 • 4:30-6:30pm

Featuring:

• Zoe Bambara, Cultural Worker, Organizer, and Full Spectrum & Prison Doula

• Michele Lamarr-Suggs, Certified Nurse Midwife, Penn Medicine

• Lana Colquhoun, Full Spectrum Doula

• Dr. Mali Collins, PhD,
Assistant Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at American University and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Bioethics at Harvard Medical School

• Josiah Carolina, Graduate Student Moderator

This event centers Black birthing practices and care within the broader framework of reproductive justice. It brings together doulas, midwives, scholars, and community advocates to explore how Black birthing persons and their kin have nurtured practices of care, resistance, and healing despite systemic inequities. Through conversation and storytelling, the panelists will reflect on birth not only as a deeply personal experience but also as a site of political struggle, community-based practices and collective empowerment rooted in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom and justice.