Applications due by July 15, 2022! - Six $5,000 scholarships will be awarded in September 2022!
NACPM is excited to announce a new initiative to grow the number of Black and Indigenous midwives in the CPM workforce: the Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship Fund. This scholarship fund is made possible by a generous grant to NACPM from Direct Relief International.
The Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship Fund will provide support for tuition and related educational expenses to second- and third-year Black and Indigenous midwifery students enrolled in programs accredited by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC).
This Fund is a celebration of the legacy of Dr. Tanya Khemet Taiwo, NACPM’s longest-serving Black Woman on NACPM’s Board of Directors, as well as an exemplary community health innovator, epidemiologist, researcher, and midwifery educator. Tanya served the maximum allowable three three-year terms on the Board of NACPM from 2012-2021, including as Secretary, Co-President, and President. NACPM has launched this fund in Tanya’s name as an acknowledgement of her legacy of outstanding service and her commitment to eradicating inequities in birth outcomes for Black and Indigenous birthing people and their babies in the U.S.
To hear directly from Tanya about her story and journey with NACPM, listen to this podcast from Shirley McAlpine’s She’s Got Drive with Dr. Tanya Khemet Taiwo and NACPM Vice President Dr. Keisha Goode.
This Fund expands on NACPM’s history of success in supporting midwifery students from communities most in need of midwifery care through our Bigger Table Fund, which as of Spring 2022 has provided over $43,000 to more than 50 midwives since 2018.