Julia Chinyere Oparah

Julia Chinyere Oparah is a transformational leader, executive coach, social justice educator, and activist scholar. Oparah has published extensively on black maternal health, decarceral politics, research justice and transnational black feminisms. She is co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice, and co-author of Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, a seminal text that puts black women at the center of debates about the crisis in maternal health care. She is lead author of Battling Over Birth, a human rights report that challenges existing research paradigms used to investigate black women’s perinatal health, using a research justice framework. More recently she has published on Black birthworkers and Birthing mamas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinyere is a National Equity Project fellow and member of the Center for Executive Coaching. She lives in Oakland with her partner, daughter and labradoodle. She can be found at the Center for Liberated Leadership.