Keisha Goode, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York-College at Old Westbury. Her primary research area is the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S., with a focus on Black midwifery. She was appointed as the first Public Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) in 2015, and still proudly serves on the Board. She is the co-author of Pregnancy and Birth: A Reference Handbook, published with ABC-CLIO press in June of 2021. She is most proud of her book Birthing, Blackness and the Body: Black Midwives and the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice that is under contract with Columbia University Press. It is an update and expansion on her 2014 dissertation about the experiences and perceptions of contemporary U.S. Black midwives.