Name: Th 7/25 9:30am PST *Kathleen Dowd's Donation* Stop Drop and Dance Class!
Start: 2024-07-25T09:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-26T23:30:00-07:00
Location: 240 Channing Way

$Th 7\/25 9:30am PST *Kathleen Dowd's Donation* Stop Drop and Dance Class!$

Join Kathleen Dowd for her Liberation and Gratitude Birthday Dance Celebration for the California Nurse-Midwives Foundation!
About this Event
About our birthday host, Kathleen Dowd, and her foundation:

Kathleen has been a midwife for over 25 yrs in the greater Bay Area and has worked in many settings, including hospitals, out of hospital birth centers and community settings. As the President of California Nurse-Midwives Association, she crafted and negotiated new legislation to remove barriers to midwifery in Ca. She continues her work to ensure all individuals have access to midwifery care as a way to improve reproductive and maternal health in the state. As such, she founded the and is currently the Chair of the Board.

Funds are raised to support strategies to improve maternal and newborn outcomes, improve access to high quality maternity care, and address inequities in care for Black, Indigenous, People of Color and other under-resourced individuals and communities. The Ca Dpmt of Public Health released a report addressing maternal outcomes in our state and Black persons are 3-4 times more likely to die related to childbirth as white persons. This is appalling and must be addressed urgently. We support aspiring and current midwifery students, programs, policies, and advocacy that uplift people of color; and those who are doing innovative work to change our current systems and institutions.

Thank you for your donation and support for Kathleen Dowd and the California Nurse Midwives Foundation! We look forward to dancing together!

After your donation, you will receive an EVENTBRITE CONFIRMATION in your email with a unique ZOOM link at the bottom. SAVE this email and click the link on Thursday, July 25th at 9:30am to join our class! Also as a thanks for your contribution, you will receive the on-demand recording of our class to access for one week afterwards.

If you are in the Marin area, with your donation, you are encouraged to join Kathleen IN-PERSON at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin located at 240 Channing Way in San Rafael at 9:30am.

The theme will be RAINBOWS, so please wear colorful workout clothes!