Episode 1: Jallicia Jolly on Transnational Reproductive Justice Organizing

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This week's podcast features a conversation with Dr. Jallicia Jolly. Dr. Jolly is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Black Studies at Amherst College, and a poet, public scholar, equity practitioner, and reproductive justice organizer. In the podcast, she discusses what led her to focus on the subject of HIV organizing and grassroots women's reproductive health in her work as a practitioner and a scholar concerned with transforming structures of power, advancing equity, and affirming health justice. She shares what aspects of research and ethnography are most meaningful to her, the people who have influenced and shaped her thinking, and inspiring advice she has for young scholars beginning their journey.