Kimberly Seals Allers

Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, author of five books, and maternal and infant
health strategist. She is the founder of Irth, as in Birth but without the B for bias, a doctor and hospital
review and rating app for Black and brown parents, designed to address racism and bias in maternity
and infant care. Kimberly is also the host of Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth. A
former senior editor at Essence magazine, her most recent book, The Big Letdown–How Medicine, Big
Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding was published in 2017. Kimberly's upcoming book,
Birthing in Colour: The Black Mother's Guide to Pregnancy, Birth & Breastfeeding will be published in
2022.