1. Kristin Z. Black, Ph.D., MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Black is committed to utilizing community-based participatory research, mixed methods, and racial equity approaches to understand and address individual-level and systemic inequities in reproductive health and chronic disease outcomes.
2. Yanica F. Faustin, Ph.D., MPH, is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Studies at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. Faustin is Haitian-American and from Brooklyn. Her research interests are largely shaped by her diasporic upbringing in a majority minority and immigrant neighborhood. Faustin’s research investigates the relationship between Nativity, Racism, and Maternal/Infant health outcomes.