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Chinyere Oparah
Julia Chinyere Oparah, Ph.D. (“Chinyere”) is a transformational leader and coach, social justice educator and researcher. In addition to a career in academia, she has co-founded and led nonprofits and headed a national development agency. Chinyere is co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice, her books include Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, and Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis. She can be found at myliberatedleadership.com.
Subjects: Gender & Intersectionality Studies
Biography
Julia Chinyere Oparah ("Chinyere") is a transformational leader, coach, social justice educator, and activist scholar. Chinyere is founder of the Center for Liberated Leadership and Professor of Sociology. Previously, she served as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of San Francisco. Prior to that, she pursued a career in nonprofit administration, taught within the University of California system, served as Canada Research Chair in Social Justice at the University of Toronto and was Provost and Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College. Oparah has published extensively on black maternal health, decarceral politics, research justice and transnational black feminisms. She is co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice, and co-editor of Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, a seminal text that puts black women at the center of debates about the crisis in maternal health care. She is lead author of Battling Over Birth, a human rights report that challenges existing research paradigms used to investigate black women’s perinatal health, using a research justice framework. Her most recent project using a sheltered-in-place research justice methodology, has resulted in an open-access article on Black birthworkers and the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous books include Activist Scholarship, Global Lockdown, and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. She lives in Oakland with her partner, daughter and labradoodle. She can be found at myliberatedleadership.com.Education
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Ph.D. Sociology, University of Warwick
M.A. in Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Warwick
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Black maternal health, birth justice, health equity. Decarceral feminisms and prison-industrial complex abolition. Transformational leadership, strategic planning, managing change and co-designing institutions for equity.
Personal Interests
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Yoga, mindfulness, hiking.
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