"Building Maternal Futures, In Partnership with Monuments to Motherhood.

Join Pregnancy Justice and Level Forward for an essential discussion of pregnancy and motherhood with leading experts Khiara M. Bridges, Mary Fariba Afsari, and Lourdes A. Rivera, who will be in conversation about the recent, profound changes to reproductive rights and justice, centering the experiences of pregnant people of color, and their efforts to defend the rights and dignity for pregnant people. 

Plus, experience a sneak peak of MOTHER JUSTICE – a new narrative short film series with truth-telling fiction honoring Black Motherhood, backed by research and possibilities – created by Level Forward in partnership with Population Media Center. An actor will perform a monologue from Lauren Whitehead’s Cliff & Clara & Her Baby.

Khiara M. Bridges is an anthropologist and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her newest book, Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans, was released in March…