Kimberly Seals Allers
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Kimberly Seals Allers

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Kimberly Seals Allers has a vision for shifting the experience of birth and breastfeeding for all women. Kimberly is an award-winning journalist and author turned global maternal and infant health advocate. A former writer at Fortune magazine and senior editor at Essence, Kimberly's own motherhood journey inspired her to pivot her creative focus and analytical mind to writing about motherhood and the intersection of race, culture, policy and commercial interests. Her first book, The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy(Amistad/HarperCollins), a first-of-its-kind pregnancy guidebook for black women from a sociological perspective, was released in 2006 and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. The top-selling Mocha Manual series continued with The Mocha Manual to Turning Your Passion into Profit and The Mocha Manual to Military Life. In 2017, Kimberly turned her attention to the issue of the culture of infant feeding in the U.S., writing The Big LetDown-How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding (St. Martin's Press). The book examines the societal norms, commercial interests, and policy gaps that influence how women feed their infants and why that matters to our society and public health. A frequent contributor to The Washington Post, Huff Post and New York Times, Kimberly travels the world speaking about her big ideas for transforming the motherhood journey and sharing findings of nearly a decade of on-the-ground community work. A divorced mother of two, Kimberly loves traveling with her teenage children and taking Zumba classes.
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