To celebrate Black History Month, we are proud to partner with UCSF's National Center of Excellence in Women's Health and Expecting Justice to co-sponsor a lecture on traditional birthing practices by Shafia Monroe.
Shafia Monroe is a veteran midwife, a cultural competency trainer, an herbalist, an author, and a motivational speaker. She is a channeler of the Black Granny Midwife and the keeper of cultural healing traditions.
She has spent over 40 years teaching the legacy of the 20th Century African American midwife and building organizations and businesses with their history as the foundation for better birth outcomes and community health. In 2016 Madame Noir noted her “Queen Mother of a Midwifery Movement,” because of her pioneer midwifery work in her home town. She established the first home-birth midwifery non-profit, Boston Traditional Childbearing Group (TCBG) in 1978.
Monroe has trained over 2,500 doulas in ancestral birth and postpartum traditions and rituals of the African Diaspora.
Program
5:00 - 5:30pm | Refreshments served
5:30 - 7:30pm | Lecture by Mama Shafia Monroe
Remote Access
This event is available for full participation online. If you're not able to make it in person, please join us online through Zoom. You may register for a remote access ticket, here. Remote participation information:
