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This episode is the first of three episodes that we'll be doing discussing reproductive wellness. 

Dr. Alicia D. Bonaparte is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College and trained as a medical sociologist with a specialization in reproductive health, health disparities, and female crime and deviance. Her publications and research interests examine the gendered social hierarchy within American medicine as well as the intersection of race and gender in healthcare practices and racial disparities. She is also co-editor of the anthology Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, contributed to Routledge’s Motherhood Companion (2019) examining the collusion of race, class, and gender regarding choices about midwife-attended births, and has forthcoming chapter in Routledge’s Black Feminist Sociology (2020). Lastly, she has served as a keynote speaker for various organizations and institutions such as Doula Trainings, International, UCLA's Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services, and LaGrange College.

email: alicia_bonaparte@pitzer.edu                                            twitter: @adbphd

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