Body Talk: A Reproductive Justice Community of Practice
Interested in reproductive health and justice - either as a scholar, an advocate, an activist, or just a person trying to figure life out?
In Body Talk: A Reproductive Justice Community of Practice, participants will build relationships with themselves and each other as they unpack key reproductive health topics. Part-discussion group, part-book club, part-innovation lab, students will reflect on past and current reproductive and healing justice movements, build personal wellness toolkits, and have a chance to propose action plans to advance broader reproductive justice moving forward. This hybrid community of practice will meet eight (8) times and will be facilitated by seasoned practitioners Shantrice King and Johanna Foster.
Who Can Join:
- Any Barnard student with an academic, professional, or personal interest in reproductive health and justice may apply.
The Commitment: This hybrid community of practice will meet on select Mondays & Thursdays, from 5:30 - 7:00 PM
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Thursday, February 27 (Online)
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Monday, March 3 (In Person)
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Thursday, March 6 (Online)
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Monday, March 10 (In Person)
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Thursday, March 13 (Online)
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Monday, March 24 (In Person)
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Thursday, March 27 (Online)
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Monday, March 31 (In Person)
The Perks:
- Guidance from two reproductive health experts, a free copy of Healing Justice Lineages, a community of peers with the same interest, plus a $150 stipend.
The application to join this Spring 2025 community of practice is now closed.
Great things happen through collaboration. Body Talk is a community of practice run in partnership with The Wellness Spot, a program of the LeFrak Center for Well-Being
Meet our Guest Experts!
Johanna Foster | Reproductive Health Guest Expert
Johanna Foster is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, and co-founder of Our Kitchen Table, LLC. Black and Afro-German-American, she was born and raised in Harlem near Barnard. Her parents, who met doing movement work in 1960s Mississippi, shaped her understanding of health and healing through their stories of the Jim Crow South and post-Holocaust Germany. Their experiences taught her both the profound grief of injustice and the hope, joy, and love found in activism. She now teaches at NYU, where she earned her Master’s in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness.
Read Johanna's full bio here.
Shantrice King | Reproductive Health Guest Expert
Shantrice King is a community-based midwife, women’s health nurse practitioner, and co-founder of HomeGurl HealthCare. Born and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, Shantrice grew up in a family led by Black women and quickly developed a passion for sexual and reproductive health. From 2013-2016, Shantrice lived in Paris, France where she researched the impacts of immigration on the reproductive patterns of first and second-generation Malian women. She spent the 2022-2023 year doing a midwifery postgraduate fellowship in Segou, Mali where she established a postpartum care service cooperative with young Malian midwives. In addition to birth work, Shantrice loves listening to, reading, and telling stories about Black folks and culture. Shantrice holds a Master of Science in Nursing from Yale School of Nursing and a B.A from Carleton College in Women and Gender Studies.
Read Shantrice's full bio here.
Over the course of 8 sessions, participants will receive:
- Guidance from two reproductive health experts
- A free copy of Healing Justice Lineages
- Community with their peers and fellow changemakers
- Dinner at every meeting
- A $150 stipend
This hybrid community of practice will meet on select Mondays and Thursdays, from 5:30 - 7:00 PM
- Thursday, February 27 (Online)
- Monday, March 3 (In Person)
- Thursday, March 6 (Online)
- Monday, March 10 (In Person)
- Thursday, March 13 (Online)
- Monday, March 24 (In Person)
- Thursday, March 27 (Online)
- Monday, March 31 (In Person)
The application to join this Spring 2025 community of practice is now closed.