Free Brochure for BIPOC Mamas to Empower Their Pregnancies
If you are a provider and/or community advocate working to improve Black and Brown birth outcomes, we would love to ship you printed versions to pass out to those you think would benefit!
Immigration is a Birth Justice Issue: Considerations of Health in the Haitian Refugee Crisis | Read More >>
Get Involved
Birth Control and Lactation Study | $40 gift card provided | The overall goal of this project is to advance knowledge regarding Black women and birthing people’s experiences with contraception during the perinatal period | Read More >>
The MEND Study| Recruiting Black women and parents who have received prenatal, birth, or postpartum care in the East Bay (California). Participants will receive $75 for a 90-minute focus group | Read More >>
Pregnancy Pop-Up Village | Free resources every second Saturday | One-stop-shop for pregnancy-related services but everyone is welcome. Popping up in the Bayview, San Francisco. | Read More >>
Become a Community Champion for the Fresno Voices for Birth Justice Campaign | The Fresno Voices Community Champions Workgroup will strengthen the voices of the communities most heavily affected by preterm birth, building trust and enabling high-impact research. | Read More >>
Events
A Reading of New Harper Collins Release Mama Bear| Oct 24, 2021, 2 PM EST|In her memoir, Mama Bear, Shirley offers the 141-day ordeal of fighting for her own life and that of her second daughter, Dakota, who is among the world’s youngest preemies ever to survive. Shirley parallels this journey with the story of her early life.| Read More >>
Understanding the Roots of Racism and Bias: Anti-Blackness, and Its Links to Whiteness, White Racism, Privilege, and Power| Nov 18-19, 2021 | A multi-day intensive group workshop by Dante King focused on disrupting racism and racial bias, increasing awareness of perpetual, systematic racial inequities through the lens of race, sex, and gender. | Read More >>
Access & Action: Community-based strategies for connection, organizing, and change| June 3-5, 2022 | Cornerstone’s first annual virtual conference. | Read More >>
Career Opportunities
Part-Time Manager | Medicaid Innovative Collaborator | This position will deploy a first-of-its-kind innovation program for Medicaid that can address persistent issues of health equity. This is a part-time role, approximately 20-30 hours a week. |Read More >>
Recent Publications
San Francisco BIPOC Family Justice Report| Convened by HIVE Online | Read More >>
Association of maternal prenatal selenium concentration and preterm birth: a multicountry meta-analysis| BMJ Glob Health | Read More >>
Racial Differences in the Association between the U.S. Earned Income Tax Credit and Birthweight | Women's Health Issue | Read More >>
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities | Stat News | Read More >>
Staff Spotlight:
JJ, Program Analyst
What I've Learned
"It’s hard to put into words. One of the biggest things is not to compartmentalize things [...] Really learning about anti-Blackness and white supremacy culture even in my own role as an admin/operations person and combatting those oppressive forces in the work that I do."
"The state of birth and maternal and infant health [today] is really just an extension of the ongoing colonization of BIPOC people which strives to keep us separate from our land, our languages, our bodies and our spirits."
