Kene Orakwue [she/they] is a critical race health scholar, researcher, evaluator, and storyteller grounded in Black feminist theory. They are fascinated by the ways in which our social structures and policies deny or grant access to, and quality of, healthcare for certain populations. Guided by Reproductive Justice as their north star, their scholarship challenges and expands the traditional notions of healthcare quality and access in order to ascertain the lived realities of Black people of reproductive age and capacity for pregnancy. They accomplish this by investigating racial formations, the usage in oppressive systems, and the results in maternal health and reproductive health outcomes. They do this all whilst dreaming of a Reproductive Justice future.

Authored by Kene Orakwue, M.P.H.