Seynabou-Denise Niang serves as the Black Maternal Health Regional Organizer, focused on operationalizing BMMA’s movement building efforts in HHS Regions 6 & 7 to provide opportunities for, initiate collaborative efforts between, and support systems-change towards health equity through partnerships with BIPOC-led perinatal and maternal health entities.
Seynabou has a BA in Psychology with a minor in Public Health from the illustrious Spelman College, and Master of Public Health in Global Health with a concentration in Community Health and Development from the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Seynabou is a community alchemist who centers her work around community health and empowerment through various frameworks like, reproductive justice, Black feminism, and critical race theory. As a native of Dakar, Senegal by way of Atlanta, GA, Seynabou deeply believes in the impact of community-based research and has almost a decades’ experience with leading community based participatory action research (CBPAR), qualitative research and monitor and evaluation. In her free time, you can find Seynabou reading, writing and binge watching any medical show dramas.