The Black Mamas Matter Alliance serves as a national entity working to advance black maternal health, rights, and justice, and uplifts the work of locally based, black women-led maternal health initiatives and organizations. We honor the work and historical contributions of black women’s leadership within their communities. We value the need to recognize, amplify, and support this work on a national scale. For this reason, BMMA does not have chapters. The alliance is composed of existing organizations and individuals whose work is deeply rooted in reproductive justice, birth justice, and the human rights framework. Membership within the alliance as a Kindred Partner or Collaborator is on a case-by-case, annual basis.
Kindred Partners
Ancient Song Doula Services – NY
Baobab Birth Collective – AL
Black Girls’ Breastfeeding Club – GA
Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association – MI
Black Women Birthing Justice – CA
Black Women For Wellness – CA
Black Women’s Health Imperative – DC
Center for Black Women’s Wellness – GA
CinnaMoms – CA
CommonSense Childbirth/ National Perinatal Task Force – FL
Dem Black Mamas Podcast – CA
Families for Equity – NJ
Feminist Women’s Health Center – GA
Jamaa Birth Village – MO
Mamatoto Village – DC
MommyUp – MD
Mothering Justice – MI
National Birth Equity Collaborative – LA
National Black Midwives Alliance – GA
Perinatal Health Equity Foundation – NJ
Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT) – OH
Shades of Blue Project – TX
Shafia Monroe Birthing Change – OR
SisterLove, Inc. – GA
SisterReach – TN
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective – GA
Southern Birth Justice Network – FL
The Afiya Center – TX
Village Birth International/Co-Mothering, Syracuse – NY
Collaborators
Abigail O. Aiyepola, ND
Andrea N. Williams- Muhammad, CBD, CPD, CBE
Avery Desrosiers, MPH
Caitlin Williams, PhDc
Courtney Drayton, MPH
Ebony Marcelle, CNM
Erin Cloud, Esq.
Fleda Mask Jackson, PhD
Ifeyinwa Asiodu, RN, PhD
Inas Mahdi, MPH
Isabel Morgan, MSPH, CPH, PhDc
Jacqueline Hammack, JD
Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH
Jamila K.Taylor, PhD
Jasmine Getrouw-Moore, MPA
Jill Denson, MSW
Karen Scott, MD, FACOG, CEFM
Lynn Roberts, PhD
Makina L. Table, MPH
Melissa M. Hamilton
Nia Mitchell, MPH
Nicole Clark, LMSW
Philicia Castillo, MPH
Sherra Lawrence, MA
Sunshine Muse