Narrative Medicine in Action: Lessons from the Maternal Mortality Project addresses the United States’s ongoing maternal health crisis by extracting findings from eighteen underrepresented women’s interviews using narrative medical research that is analyzed through the reproductive justice framework. To mitigate obstetric abuse and adverse birthing experiences, Dr. Kenya Mitchell concludes by recommending three collaborative care models that integrate diverse birth workers who are paid a living wage into existing maternal care systems.
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Dr. Kenya Mitchell is an author, researcher, and instructor whose work focuses on achieving equity for individuals who live at the intersections of race, disability, and gender in medical and higher education contexts. During her career, Dr. Mitchell has received a number of awards, including being named a 2020 Digital Pedagogy Fellow for her research in the field of Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition. Dr. Mitchell holds a master’s degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard University’s School of Education and a Ph.D. in Writing Rhetoric and Composition from University of California Davis’s School of Education.