“Something had to be done about the Black maternal health rate. So I founded the National Black Doula Association in October 2017 with 17 years already in the field. My initial thought was that it would just be a database that would pair Black and BIPOC birthing people with Black birthing professionals. Once I first started going live on Instagram, people started to get a taste of my personality, background, and my knowledge. And people would say to me — we want you to train us.
So, in 2019 I started creating a curriculum for the NBDA. We’ve quickly grown into the leading organization when it comes to training BIPOC birthing professionals. But also, we’ve created a system for BIPOC birthing families to be able to find support that looks like them — people who understand the system they’re up against.”
100% of Knix and @carriagehousebirth’s proceeds from Life After Birth: Portraits of Love and the Beauty of Parenthood will be donated to @blkwomenshealth to support the NOURISH program — a Postpartum Doula training program created in partnership with Knix that supports the needs of Black birthing families.
The NOURISH curriculum was designed in partnership with the National Black Doula Association, and we were so grateful to sit down with its CEO & Founder, Tracie Collins to discuss it further.
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