Let me tell you about Jamarah Amani. There’s a community midwife in Miami who takes prenatal care on the road — literally — driving a mobile clinic into the neighborhoods where Black and brown families have the fewest options and the highest stakes. Her name is Jamarah Amani, and she’s building the birth center South…
Let me tell you about Dr. Heather Skanes. There’s an OB/GYN who came home to Birmingham and opened Alabama’s first freestanding birth center — in a majority-Black neighborhood, in a state with one of the worst maternal and infant mortality records in the country. Her name is Dr. Heather Skanes, and she decided her hometown…
Let me tell you about Dr. Danielle Busby. There’s a psychologist who studies the hardest question in her field — why Black youth are at higher risk for suicide, and what actually helps — and then turns the research into tools real families can use. Her name is Dr. Danielle R. Busby, and she’s one…
Let me tell you about Latham Thomas. There’s a doula who turned one woman’s calling into a global brand for maternal wellness — a place where pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care get treated as the sacred work they are. Her name is Latham Thomas, and she’s the founder of Mama Glow. The Work Latham is…
Let me tell you about Dr. Jerome Adams. There’s an anesthesiologist who became “the nation’s doctor” — the Surgeon General who stood at the podium during a global pandemic and told Americans how to stay alive. Now he’s taking that same fight to a university campus, building the programs that fix health inequity from the…
Let me tell you about Dr. Joy Harden Bradford. There’s a psychologist who looked around and asked a simple question: where does a Black woman go to find a therapist who truly gets it? Her answer became a podcast, a national directory, and a movement. Her name is Dr. Joy Harden Bradford — and she…
Let me tell you about Dr. Erica Schwartz. There’s a physician who spent her whole career in uniform — Navy, Coast Guard, Public Health Service — protecting the health of people she’d never meet. In August 2026, she became the first Black woman to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her name is…
Let me tell you about Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice. There’s a doctor who treats something most people never think about: the diseases that hit women of color hardest, and the pipeline that trains the doctors who care for them. She became the first woman to lead a freestanding medical school in the United States. Her…