Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG (she/her), proudly stands as the Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist, Founding CEO, and Owner of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, with over 25 years of supporting women, girls, and gender expansive individuals across the sexual, reproductive and perinatal life course. Based in Tennessee, Dr. Scott is a national and international speaker about the ways in which obstetric racism violates the humanity, bodies, and lives of Black women, girls, and gender expansive individuals throughout health services design, provision, evaluation, and training, in the afterlife of slavery.  She identifies as a “recovering and dissident” board certified obstetrician and gynecologist, applied epidemiologist, public health scholar, and Black feminist health scientist. Her work interrogates and transforms quality and patient safety paradigms through application of participatory multilevel quantitative, multilevel quantitative, and mixed methods and methodologies that simultaneously operationalize Black feminism, reproductive justice, and research justice at the intersection of cultural humility and scientific rigor, also known as cultural rigor. Dr. Scott and her team developed the first and only validated Patient Reported Experience Measure of obstetric racism© (the PREM-OB Scale® Suite) for prevention of and mitigation against obstetric racism during childbirth hospitalization in the afterlife of slavery. Dr. Scott is also the author of SACKRED Birth: Mobilizing A New Quality Paradigm in Obstetric Care, a vital call for prioritizing Black mothers’ expectations, and experiences in clinical practice, decision making, and care delivery using new quality norms and methodologies to amplify the humanity and power, not pathology, of Black reproducing bodies and Black births.