Maryland Black Perinatal Health and Reproductive Policy & Practice Convening

Join us for the 2nd Maryland Black Perinatal Health & Reproductive Justice Policy and Practice Convening — a day of collective learning, relationship-building, and radical imagination as we work toward transformative change in Maryland’s perinatal health and reproductive justice landscape.

Building on the collaborative work cultivated through the 2023 and 2024 Maryland Black Perinatal Health and Reproductive Justice Summit, we are bringing together perinatal therapists, midwives, doulas and birth workers, healthcare providers, physicians, OB/GYNs, nurses, reproductive health practitioners, lactation and human milk practitioners, researchers, organizers, policymakers, community leaders, creatives, and all those committed to reproductive justice.

What you will gain from our time together:

• Deepen connections and strengthen collaboration. Build relationships across disciplines, communities, and movements to reduce fragmentation and strengthen our collective work.
• Expand our collective vision of reproductive health and justice. Learn together, honor the work carried out over the years, and explore the full arc of reproductive health, rights, and perinatal care through the values and principles of Reproductive Justice.
• Help shape community-driven policy and practice. Bring our collective knowledge, experiences, and radical imagination into conversations that advance policy priorities rooted in community needs, desires, and visions for the future.

This convening continues the vision of the 2023 & 2024 Summit and the 2025 Policy Convening to create a resource for our communities, strengthen connections across the reproductive justice landscape, and challenge fragmented systems and research practices that fail to center our communities. Together, we will build upon the work already underway, cultivate new possibilities, and translate our collective vision into policy and practice shaped by people power.

Join us as we continue building the reproductive futures our communities need, desire, and deserve — in Maryland and beyond.

All tickets allow for the same access, support helps with ongoing sustainability of the work that moves at the speed and intentionality of community.

 Confirmed Speakers:

Kortney James Floyd, PhD, RN, PNP, Associate Health Policy Research at RAND Corporation and Faculty at UCLA's Joe C. Wen School of Nursing

Chelsey R. Carter, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Public Health in the Departments of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Anthropology at Yale University

Ebony Marcelle, DNP, CNM, FACNM, Director of Midwifery at Community of Hope in Washington, DC and Professor at Georgetown School of Nursing

Cecilia Tomori, PhD, MA, Anthropologist and Public Health Professor, Johns Hopkins University