by Comms & Outreach | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
VOICE FOR EVERYONE | Share your voice with KSHB 41’s Rachel Henderson Uzazi Village, a Kansas City-based nonprofit aimed at providing community-based maternal care, is hosting its ninth annual Black Infant Mortality Awareness Walk on Saturday. “We really just want to...
by Comms & Outreach | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
For the last 5 years, Black documentary filmmaker Emmett Williams has been producing a project titled SISTER DOULA, a one-hour documentary about Black infant and maternal health in America. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles...
by Comms & Outreach | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Announcing our next speaker for our Sept. 29 maternal health workshop, Hakima Payne! Hakima Tafunzi Payne is the founder and Executive Director of Uzazi Village, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating disparities in maternal and infant health in African American...
by Comms & Outreach | Aug 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hakima Payne founded Uzazi Village, a nonprofit that trains doulas and focuses on reducing birth inequities for Black mothers and infants in Kansas City. BY ANNA SPOERRE| JILL TOYOSHIBA Editor’s note: During the month of February, in honor of Black History Month and...
