Birth While Black 10 - Latinas Speak - Miriam Perez & Grace Roman!

Birthing While Black Continues with LATINA birthworkers! . Please join producer/host Denise Bolds with special guests Miriam Zolia Perez and Grace Roman! The discussion about Latinas and maternal health breaks myths and stigmas!

Miriam Zoila Pérez is a queer Cuban-American writer and activist focused on race, health and gender. Pérez is the gender columnist for Colorlines, and is the founder of Radical Doula, a blog that covers the intersections of birth activism and social justice from a doula’s perspective. She is the author of the self-published Radical Doula Guide: A Political Primer for Full-Spectrum Pregnancy and Childbirth Support, which has sold over 1700 copies. Pérez worked in the reproductive justice movement for eight years, both online and off, including more than six years working with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.

Grace Roman is a Latina full spectrum doula and placenta encapsulator in the Bronx, NY. She can be reached on facebook as https://www.facebook.com/BronxPaleoBronxDoula

Denise Bolds MSW: Certified birth doula (BOLD DOULA), owner of Bold Selah, LLC she is Bold Doula. Reach Denise Bolds: 845-797-4177 http://www,BoldDoula.com