Latona Giwa

Latona Giwa is a perinatal health advocate, registered nurse, and lactation consultant in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the executive director at the nonprofit reproductive health advocacy and training group Repro TLC (formerly Midwest Access Project). In 2011, Giwa co-founded Birthmark Doula Collective, Louisiana’s largest doula organization and one of the only worker-owned cooperatives in New Orleans. In 2017, she co-founded the New Orleans Breastfeeding Center. Latona speaks, writes, and builds community around the intersections of birth justice, racial justice, parenting for liberation, and Black body politics.