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Welcome back to the Untaming Podcast! It is currently the Full Waking Moon Moon here in the Southern Hemisphere. Each episode of this third season will be released on the New and Full Moons. A 10 Questions in 10 Minutes episode will be released to coincide with the First & Last Quarter Moons.
Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, author of five books and a nationally recognized media commentator, consultant and advocate for women and infant health. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate and HuffPost, Kimberly was named one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” for 2018 by Women’s eNews.
Kimberly’s fifth book, The Big Let Down — How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding was published by St. Martin’s Press in January 2017.
Kimberly Seals Allers is the founder and executive director of Narrative Nation, a non-profit organisation that campaigns to tackle racial disparities in health. She recently created and launched a new app called Irth (birth, with the “B” for bias removed) to publicly collect and share experiences of bias in maternity and infant care.
Further Information:
Birthright Podcast: https://birthrightpodcast.com/
Irth App: https://irthapp.com/
Narrative Nation: https://wewriteus.org/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlysealsallers
IG: @iamksealsallers
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Book: The Big Let Down: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26114282-the-big-letdown
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