Book Talk: Information, Power, and Reproductive Health (Part 1)

by Sophie

See Recording Here

Join editors Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, Renée Ann Rau, and Alanna Aiko Moore, along with chapter authors, as they discuss the new book Information, Power, and Reproductive Health.

This is Part 1 of a two-part book talk. Part 2 is scheduled for Nov. 3.

 

Chapter Authors for Part 1:

  • Latona Giwa (she/they) is a birth justice advocate, Registered Nurse, full spectrum doula, and IBCLC lactation consultant based in New Orleans, LA. Latona is currently the Executive Director of Repro TLC, a national provider training non-profit, and previously co-founded Birthmark Doula Collective and the New Orleans Breastfeeding Center.

  • Emily Vardell (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University. Her research interests focus on information behavior, including health insurance literacy and infertility information practices.

  • Brenda Linares (she,ella) is Associate Dean of Library Services at UMKC Libraries, University of Missouri – Kansas City. She has over 15 years experience in health sciences librarianship with emphasis is outreach, consumer and patient education, leadership, evidence-based research, and diversity.
  • Mondo Vaden (He/They) is a DeafBlackTrans Intersectional Librarian, artist, and activist. He is the founding Librarian of the Library of Intersectionality and runs a DEIA consultancy and independent research and information business as Mondo Connections.

  • Jennifer Marino (she/they) is a first-year psychiatry resident at the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital. They are a graduate of UMass Chan Medical School, where they led a reproductive justice campaign to incorporate abortion care into the medical school’s curriculum.

  • Emerson Meinhart (he/they) is the Research Services Coordinator for Tomlinson Library at Colorado Mesa. He is currently working on his master’s in Gender Women and Sexuality studies at ASU, with an eye towards reproductive and health care advocacy for transgender people.

  • Margaret Ansell is the Nursing & Consumer Health Liaison Librarian and Associate Chair for the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. She is passionate about empowering health consumers, nurses, and librarians to understand and conduct research to improve health and advocate for their health needs and professional interests.

  • Jane Morgan-Daniel (she/her) is the Community Engagement and Health Literacy Liaison Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. Her research interests include social justice in health sciences librarianship, accessibility, and health literacy. 

  • Shannon Simpson

  • Tanesa King (she/her) is a cataloging librarian at Binghamton University (SUNY) and is a recent transplant from Texas to New York. Her research interests include radical and critical cataloging, slow librarianship, trauma-informed librarianship, and reproductive/sexual health and bodily autonomy resources and their cataloging.