More photos from the 7th International Black Midwives and Healers Conference in Long Beach, California, which I attended last weekend with Mothering publisher and editor Peggy O’Mara (see her latest reflections on the conference here).
The view from my sixth-floor room at the conference (it was held at the Long Beach Hilton). It felt very NOT Santa Fe. . .
An appreciative audience applauds Saturday’s “Brazen Women” panel of presidents of health organizations. That’s Peggy (Mothering editor and publisher Peggy O’Mara) in the bottom left of the frame.
Loretta Ross, president of SisterSong, responds to a question from the audience, as Jocelyn V. Sargent, program officer of the W.K.Kellogg Foundation, and Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, president of Birthing Project, USA, listen. At the far right is Shafia Monroe, president of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC).
Another shot of the audience during the presidents’ panel discussion.
Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, president of Birthing Project, USA (left), smiles during a moment of levity.
Michelle-Nicholle Calaresco, the first multi-cultural director of the Doulas of North America (DONA), talks about the powerful potential of social networking
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