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Kimberly Seals Allers
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"Kimberly is one of the most powerful keynote speakers we have ever contracted. Her presentation was eye-opening, engaging, and sincere. I have never seen such overall approval and admiration from the crowd as I did after Kimberly's keynote. I would be surprised if there was a dry eye in the audience and anyone left seated when it was over."John Rabold, CMPEventGlide, Maternal and Child Health Conference, IndianapolisKimberly Seals Allersis an award-winning journalist, author, international speaker, strategist and advocate for maternal and infant health. Kimberly consistently leads powerful presentations across the U.S. as well as in Australia and the U.K. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a recognized thought-leader on the socio-cultural and racial complexities of birth, breastfeeding and motherhood.Kimberly is currentlythe director of the Maternal and Child Health Communication Collective, a national consortium of over 80 organizations working to shift the narrative of maternal and infant health issues, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.Shewas recently named one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” for 2018 by Women’s eNews for her media advocacy work. A frequent contributor toThe New York TimesandWashington Post, Slate and others, her online commentaries received over 10 million page views last year.Kimberly’s fifth book,The Big Let Down—How Medicine, Big Business and FeminismUndermine Breastfeedingwas published by St. Martin’s Press in January 2017.As a consultant, Kimberly provides strategic communication services to corporations that impact mothers, non-profits, public health-related organizations and others, with an expertise in engaging communities of color.For over seven years, she has led innovative community-based projects in New Orleans, Birmingham, Detroit and Philadelphia that explore the impact of “first food deserts”—communities that severely lack accessible resources to support mothers who choose to breastfeed—and designed community-partnered strategies to transform these areas into more breastfeeding supportive environments.Kimberly serves on the advisory board of 1000 Days, a non-profit focused on early nutrition and is the former vice president of the Board of Governors for the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC). In 2018, she foundedNarrative Nation, a non-profit that creates community-centered media and technology to eradicate health disparities. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @iamKSealsAllers.
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