Birthing Justice: A Community Collaborative Screening & Panel Discussion

3333 Fifth Avenue,Pittsburgh PA 15213

17 April, 2023

Description

BIRTHING JUSTICE is a feature-length documentary whose purpose is two-fold: to discuss issues fueling the maternal health crisis within the Black community and to advocate for best practices to enhance birthing equity for all, especially Black mothers and birthing people. The film explores this epidemic across the nation, interviewing those affected by current policies, including birthing individuals and healthcare providers, as well as birthing advocates, activists, and policymakers at the forefront of advancing policy change. BIRTHING JUSTICE flips the victim-blaming narrative, centering on the lived experiences of Black women and their advocates as they fix a broken system and transform the future, one birth at a time. www.birthingjustice.com PANELISTS PA State Rep. La'Tasha D. MayesEmily McGahey, DM/MSN/CNM/FACNM, Clinical Director at The Midwife CenterTa'Lor Pinkston LSW, Healthy Start therapistJeaonna Hodges, doula and homebirth midwifeDr. Sheila Ramgopal, OB/GYN and owner of Allegheny ReproductiveDr. Carmen Proctor, MD, Fellow for Maternal-Fetal Health at UPMC MageeDr. Chrissy Megli, MD, Fetal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Specialist at UPMC MageeDr. Deborah Mitchum, MD, Nursing Program Director at Carlow University