When it comes to comprehending disparities in maternal care,
you can talk statistics and epidemiology.
You can talk about people's stories.
In your experience, what works best
to reach people and activate them to try and close
these care gaps?
I always like to start with stories.
I enjoy writing stories and relating it to real outcome.
And I think it makes it more real and personal.
Obviously, as physician, we need facts.
We need data to support what we say.
We can't just kind of be arbitrary about what we claim.
But I always like stories to bring it home.
And it makes it, to me, more deeply personal.
And you can connect more with a story.
When I first-- well, not really first--
when I did more and more in this work,
the stories really motivated me to continue to do more.
For example, Dr. [INAUDIBLE] story really
pushed me to keep doing more and more and more.
So the stories really bring it home,
and I think stories are very important.
People deserve a face.
They deserve that their stories--
they deserve-- their stories should be told.
They deserve that.
And women have earned the right to have their stories told
in a way in order to make things better for them,
not to make things worse.
Not a disparaging story, not a humiliating story--
a story that gives hope or a story that can catalyze
change for the better.