HIS Client BMMA, Inc. Featured on TIME The Closers List

It thrills us to announce that long-time HIS client, Angela D. Aina, MPH and her organization the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Inc. (BMMA) are recognized as part of this year’s TIME The Closers List, recognizing extraordinary leaders working to close racial equity gaps and create a better future! Here’s an excerpt:

“Throughout her career, volunteering with grassroots reproductive justice organizations and African immigrant-serving groups in Atlanta, Aina noticed a pattern: Black women consistently developed innovative solutions to address community health needs, but rarely received the investment or resources to sustain them. ‘We always come up with the solutions and innovation,” she says, ‘but we’re never fully equipped with the investment and proper resources to actually do the work.’

“It was that observation that pushed Aina to co-found the Black Mamas Matter Alliance in 2016. Aina describes its framework as simple but revolutionary: “Trust Black women, listen to Black women, and most importantly, invest in Black women.” Over the course of a decade of scholarship and organizing, BMMA has advocated for the creation of services to improve experiences and outcomes, including birth centers, wraparound service programs (coordinated support plans that bundle multiple services around one person or family), and reproductive justice clinics. ‘These different types of models of community-based care [are] genuinely what’s needed to address these issues,’ she says. ‘But they need to be funded, sustained, and valued.’”

Since 2018 Human Impact Solutions has represented BMMA, Inc., spearheading their ongoing PR/Media Relations efforts, and designing the digital and social media plan that launched its inaugural Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) campaign. We have also executed live production and media partnerships for BMMA, Inc.’s bi-annual Black Maternal Health Conference and Training Institute (BMHC). Over this time we have borne witness to Angela’s catalytic leadership, the dedicated efforts of BMMA staff and Alliance members nationwide, and the incredible growth of the Black Maternal Health movement over the past decade. Congrats again to Ms. Aina and the entire BMMA community on this historic achievement, one that we hope will power your work for many more decades to come!

Read the full TIME The Closers feature: https://lnkd.in/em83dcPs

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