Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis

Julia Chinyere Oparah is a transformational leader, executive coach, social justice educator, and activist scholar. She is cofounder of Black Women Birthing Justice, and coauthor of Birthing Justice, a seminal text that puts black women at the center of debates about the crisis in maternal health care.

Helen Arega is coauthor of Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis.

Dantia Hudson is coauthor of Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Crisis.

Linda Jones founded and owned Waddle and Swaddle Baby Boutique and Resource Center and has been a part of the natural birth advocacy community in the Bay Area for over three decades. She is cofounder of Black Women Birthing Justice and was one of the founders of a Doula collective (Roots of Labor Birth Collective).

Talita Oseguera is a former cocoordinator of the Family Planning and Reproductive Choices elective within the Obgyn Department at UCSF and member of Nurse Students of Color. Talita coauthored Battling Over Birth, the second publication of Oakland-based Black Women Birthing Justice, of which she is a collective member.

Deanna Anthony, an original southern belle and former beauty queen, is an audiobook narrator, actress, singer, dancer, and voice-over artist who lives in Los Angeles, California. Touring by land and sea, both nationally and internationally, she has performed at more than over fifty regional theaters and concert halls.