Ebony Marcelle is director of midwifery at Community of Hope, which includes Family Health and Birth Center. Marcelle was previously administrative chief of midwifery service at Medstar Washington Hospital Center. She is a fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives and adjunct faculty at Georgetown University. Her advocacy work has included multiple congressional briefings creating awareness around the need for policy changes to reduce maternity care disparities. Known for her passion in midwifery and midwifery’s role in reproductive justice, Marcelle has built culturally aware clinical care models for under-resourced Black women. She serves on the boards of the National Association for the Advancement of Black Birth, March for Moms, and American Association of Birth Centers and is a member of the District of Columbia’s inaugural Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
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If Black women bear the heaviest burdens of the maternal mortality crisis—they are 2.6 times more likely to die during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth—they are also the...
