The Deep Care Podcast
A podcast about the Black community midwives transforming Black families and futures.
What if the answer to the Black maternal health crisis is already here? Deep Care brings you the intimate stories of Black parents who chose midwifery care, and experienced transformative outcomes for themselves and their babies. Hosted by researcher and mother Dr. Kaytura Felix, this series follows three Black 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.
The Deep Care Podcast officially launches on April 13th, free anywhere you listen to your podcasts. In the meantime, click below to listen to our trailer!
Our Wonderful Podcast Team
Our Podcast Partners
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.
PRX
PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio.
Our Podcast Funders
Wagner Foundation
Wagner Foundation is a private, philanthropic organization funding initiatives designed to foster inclusive economies that provide everyone with the opportunity to achieve economic wellbeing. In their work in art & culture, they aim to nurture a contemporary visual arts ecosystem that cultivates empathy, healing, and a more caring and healthy society.
The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private, philanthropic foundation funding initiatives that promote 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.
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.
Resources
Want to learn more on Black Maternal Health? Here are a couple places to start.