“When my uncles and my father had their children, labor and delivery were still not integrated. They talked about being in a separate room. That's the way we had designed our maternal health system. When it was my turn, I wanted to be different. I was at all the visits and appointments. I had a Bachelor's degree at the time, I owned a house, and I was newly married. And at the end, I learned a word I had never heard before: Cesarean.”

“In the field, we say public health is everything. It's the air we breathe. It's the water we drink. It's how we move and navigate through this life.”

“When I had my second pregnancy loss, I realized—through my own journey—that grief support in New Jersey was not cutting it, especially for Black women. There were women who were hurting and didn’t know where to go, because people were trying to put them in a silo—when this is everyone’s problem.”