Join the Discovery Center on Wed., April 26 for an engaging discussion on how we can better care for families and communities during pregnancy and parenting. The event is connected to our current exhibition, Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births, and it will delve into such issues as family planning, prenatal care, support for BIPOC families, and what it means to practice self-care.
The panel will feature expertise from advisors to the exhibition, including Angela Garbes, author of “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change,” Dila Perera, executive director of Open Arms Perinatal Services, and Mercedes Snyder midwife and owner of Something Beautiful Midwifery. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation staff member Kaleigh MacDaniels, Program Officer, Global Health will join the panelists to speak about the foundation’s work around family planning & innovations in the field.
Local storyteller Rosette Royale will serve as moderator, and following the discussion, panelists will participate in an audience Q&A.
RSVP at the website below. There is also a virtual option at 5:30-7 pm PST.
