The National Midwifery Institute will host a talk with a talk with Hakima Tafunzi Payne, MSN, RN - Manifestations of Racism in Midwifery Education on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at 4 pm Pacific / 7 pm Eastern.

This session is a safe space for Black, Brown, and Indigenous midwifery students. The discussion will center around the phenomenon of racism as it occurs in both didactic and clinical learning (including apprenticeships) during midwifery education. Students will be offered opportunities to share their stories and experiences in order to process and begin to heal from the trauma associated with midwifery education for BIPOC candidates.

Hakima Tafunzi Payne, known to her community as Mama Hakima, is the founder, and Executive Director of Uzazi Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating health outcome disparities in maternal and infant health in African-American communities. She holds a Bachelors in Nursing and a Masters in Nursing Education. Ms. Payne is the creator of the Sister Doula Program (a community-based home visiting community health worker program for pregnant individuals), Chocolate Milk Café, (a breastfeeding support group for Black families), the Village Circle, an Afro-centric group prenatal care model, and Culturally Congruent Care (an anti-racist medical education curriculum). She sits on her local Fetal Infant Mortality Review Board (FIMR) to address Black infant mortality and has been appointed by her city’s mayor to serve as a Health Commissioner. She is a certified trainer for Community Health Workers, and speaks nationally on the topics of Black maternal and infant health. Ms. Payne works tirelessly to make birth safer, the village healthier, and to promote anti-racist care models for Black and African-American families. She is the subject of an upcoming documentary, “Mama Hakima”. Ms. Payne resides in Kansas City, Missouri.

To learn more and to register, visit National Midwifery Institute.