Latoya Bartley

Latoya Bartley is a senior undergraduate student at Mercer University studying history, anthropology, and global health studies. She is deeply committed to addressing the US’ Black maternal mortality crisis. Through professional experiences at Georgia’s Department of Public Health and similar organizations, she has witnessed the effects of inequitable health policies on Black American mothers and other minoritized populations–in both the US and abroad. She seeks to harness historical and anthropological methods to better incorporate the lived experiences of marginalized communities into the creation of health policies. Her goal is to ensure that Black mothers and their families have the ability to access optimal health on the same grounds as their counterparts.

Margaux Fisher

Margaux Fisher is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.  Fisher’s dissertation examines American public health ideologies–that is, the assumptions about public health, and how public services should operate–and considers their implications for advancing health equity. Fisher is passionate about teaching medical and environmental anthropology, and is a graduate student researcher with EcoGovLab, a social science collaborative focused on formulating and implementing next-generation environmental governance.