The one thing The Afiya Center wants the people that walk through its new birthing center’s doors to know is that they are the people it serves. The Afiya...
D’Andra Willis, birth justice coordinator, Qiana Lewis-Arnold, fun spectrum doula and birth justice associate, Marsha Jones, executive director, and Cerita Burrell, director of programs, pose at The Afiya Center, a reproductive justice and maternal health organization.The one thing The Afiya Center wants the people that walk through its new birthing center’s doors to know is that they are the people it serves.
The nonprofit organization is founded and run by Black women and focuses on issues that affect the Black community. Many of those on the team have been in the exact positions as the people they serve.Executive director Marsha Jones grew up in Joppa and was a teen mother herself. “They really began to examine the wholeness of Black women under the reproductive justice framework,” Cerita Burrell, director of programs, said. “From there, the work was expanded beyond HIV to also address the issues of maternal mortality, and also began to work around doing some abortion-forward work.”
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