Cultivating Birth Equity in Arizona: A Listening Session led by Phoenix Birthworkers of Color

Community-based and culturally-rooted birthworkers, including midwives and doulas, are knowledge keepers and unwavering advocates of birth equity and justice. Equity stakeholders will have the opportunity to listen to perspectives often excluded in policy-making processes and envision pathways to support local birthworkers of color and the communities they serve.

Event Schedule: 

• 9:45 - 10:00 Registration
• 10:00 - 10:30 Welcome and Blessing 
• 10:30 - 12:00pm Facilitated Community Dialogue
• 12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch and Networking
• 1pm Closing

More about the Lead Researcher: Since 2019, Frida Espinosa Cárdenas, MPH, has been an active member of Cihuapactli Collective. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Global Health PhD program at Arizona State University. Her commitment to birth justice centers on indigenous epistemologies and culturally-rooted midwives, doulas, and knowledge keepers who protect and safe keep ancestral, land-based teachings. Her research endeavors to co-create a framework that counters the rising incidence of traumatic birth experiences in BIPOCQxi (Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Queer, and intersecting immigrant) communities in Arizona.