Red Emma’s

Our featured speaker for June is Tanay Lynn Harris, CBS, CPE, PD. She is a Certified Lactation Specialist, Certified Perinatal Educator, a Postnatal Doula and a co-founder of The Bloom Collective. The Bloom Collective is a collective of reproductive health and wellness practitioners providing holistic care and support to women, femmes, mamas, birthing persons and families. They understand firsthand what our minds and bodies endure to create and sustain new life. The Bloom Collective understands the power behind centering Black/African and Indigenous traditions in holistic wellness and care during each phase of our reproductive health, pregnancy, birthing and postpartum experiences. Tanay is a community centered researcher and ethnographer focused on Black maternal health, breastfeeding medicine, transnational reproduction, abolition and human rights. Tanay has worked with various national and international human rights and racial justice institutions over the past 18 years, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Tanay is a trusted advisor and strategist to countless social impact organizations. She is an Advisory Board member of CLLCTIVLY, Board Co-Chair with Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT), has been a Partner with the Black Mamas Matter Alliance since 2017, and is currently the co-chair of the Maryland Maternal Health Improvement Task Force alongside Dr. Donna Neale, MD. Her work through the years has deepened her commitment to the otherwise possibilities, coined by Dr. Ashon Crawley, that building the world we need and deserve is an everyday practice and she attempts to embody in her work as a birth worker, educator and reproductive health practitioner. In addition, she is a co-editor of a maternal health equity toolkit for Maryland Hospitals that was developed through the Maryland Maternal Health Innovation Program (MDMOM). She also helps facilitate the community of learning to support birthing hospitals to implement the maternal health equity toolkit. Tanay provides consultation to organizations and institutions that want to advance perinatal and obstetric health equity and reproductive justice. Tanay is a graduate of Africana Studies at Temple University and the School for Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Come and check it out! Attendees at this event may be included in photos, video recordings or audio recordings that may be made public.