The Deep Care Podcast

A podcast about the Black community midwives transforming Black families and futures

What if an answer to the Black maternal health crisis is already here?

Deep Care brings you the intimate stories of Black parents who chose community midwifery care, and experienced transformative outcomes for themselves and their babies.

Hosted by researcher and mother Dr. Kaytura Felix, this series follows three Black community midwives who are making joyful, empowering, and safe birthing possible. Listen to find out how deep care can change your life—and help build a new future for Black families.

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Our Wonderful Podcast Team

Kaytura Felix, MD

Host & Executive Producer

Camara Aaron

Lead Producer

Gabrielle Horton

Story Editor

Sally Beauvais

Audio Producer

Kimberly Pothemont

Research Assistant

Brier Evans

Associate Producer

Maria Owens-Fajardo

Creative & Strategy Producer

Our Podcast Partners

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Birth Center Equity (BCE)

Birth Center Equity is a national catalyst working with and for BIPOC community birth center leaders to collectively access full spectrum capital at scale, to nurture beliefs, practices, and models of abundance among community birth centers, and to build beloved communities with caregiving, regeneration, and mutuality at the heart of our health system and our economy.

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PRX

PRX is is a Pulitzer-winning public media organization serving as one of today’s top podcast publishers and public radio distributors.

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Southern Birth Justice Network

Southern Birth Justice Network (SBJN) is the pioneering organization that established the birth justice movement. They focus on making holistic, culturally abundant midwifery care and reproductive health resources more accessible to marginalized communities. Rooted in ancestral wisdom and guided by the belief that everyone has the right to safe and respectful birth experiences, SBJN combines hands-on services, workforce development, advocacy, and storytelling to bring about real change in perinatal health systems through inspiring initiatives like the Mobile Midwife Clinic, doula training programs, community education, and their efforts to establish South Florida’s first nonprofit birth center!

Our Podcast Funders

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

RWJF is a leading national philanthropy paving the way, together, toward a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. What started as a mission to support vulnerable populations has transformed into a commitment to address structural racism, a root cause of health inequities.

Through funding, convening, advocacy, evidence building, and impact investing, we work side-by-side with communities, practitioners, and institutions to get to health equity, faster and together.

Griotte’s Beat

Griotte’s Beat LLC is a production company, founded by Kaytura Felix. Across their work, they are committed to deepening the discourse around the values of truth and justice by centering the wisdom of Black women from across the African diaspora. Their podcasts explore contemporary social issues with a focus on how individuals assess their context and build capabilities and community to improve it.

Griotte’s Beat LLC has produced two shows: their eponymous podcast, an interview series exploring how Black women tackled injustice in their everyday lives, and the upcoming Deep Care, a nonfiction series looking at Black community midwives as a solution to the ongoing Black maternal health crisis.

Wagner Foundation

For more than two decades, Wagner Foundation has been committed to building healthier communities by investing in and accompanying organizations dedicated to health equity, economic wellbeing, and the transformative power of art and culture.

Together with their partners in the US and around the world, we celebrate their shared humanity and strive for long-term solutions to some of our most complex global challenges.

The Commonwealth Fund

The Commonwealth Fund is a private, philanthropic foundation promoting a high-performing, equitable health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including people of color, people with low income, and those who are uninsured.

The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy.