Dr. Wendi is in conversation with Dr. Ife Udoh, Executive Vice President of Policy Advocacy and Science at the Black Women's Health Imperative (BWHI - @blkwomenshealth on Instagram). In this episode we bring one of our kitchen table conversations to the podcast. Mothering as leadership, leadership as mothering and how mother's and particularly Black mother's, comport themselves to nurture audacity despite, and perhaps in spite of the precarity of the Black life they carry. Ife is a public health professional, a scientist, and mother. In our conversation she cites the labor and intellectual contribution of the many Black women in the space of health advocacy who are providing critical care in the messaging and practices that are honed more and more by their critique and guidance to keep us ALL safe. As promised in the interview, I am naming their names: Drs. Monica McLemore, Marguerita Lightfoot, Vignetta Charles, Shanelle McGoy, Louisa Fitzpatrick, and Aisha Mays, to name a few.

Follow Ife and the transformative work she does in the mothering space @ifeomaseesu on Instagram. And learn more and support the incredibly necessary and critical work of the Black Women's Health Imperative at https://bwhi.org/.

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