Intimate Spaces in Carceral Places: An Examination of Black Doula Care with Incarcerated Pregnant and Postpartum Women

Part of the Emerging Scholars Symposium

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Meeting Room A

Denae Bradley-Morris (she/her), MA, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, USA. She is also a Health Policy Research Scholar (HPRS), a national leadership program supported by the Roberts-Wood Johnson Foundation. Her research is guided by Black feminist perspectives and informed by a reproductive justice praxis. Her research interests lie at the intersection of reproductive health and mass incarceration. She is especially interested in how processes  (i.e., maternal substance use and risk of incarceration) and practices (i.e., shackling pregnant people) within the carceral state influence reproductive healthcare experiences, particularly for Black pregnant and postpartum people. Over the course of her graduate career, she has worked extensively to research the impact of psychosocial factors and racism on health outcomes and the effects of policing and COVID-19 on the Black community. She previously worked in community development in the Mississippi Delta.