Sevonna Brown

National Director

Black Women's Blueprint

Sevonna Brown, National Director of Black Women’s Blueprint at Restore Forward, leads the Safer Childbirth Cities Initiative through Merck for Mothers. Brown is a certified doula and has clinical experiences in postpartum support, home visiting, prenatal care and childbirth education. She currently sits on NYC’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee. She trains midwives and doulas at colleges and universities. She co-authored the Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline Report (2019) with Farah Tanis and Cathy Tanis, which offers a comprehensive examination of the “sexual abuse to maternal mortality pipeline” and its markers.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

19 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
02:30 pm EEST	04:00 pm EEST	When Truth is Justice: Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Concurrent Room MH 4-2	The session is an opportunity to engage key feminists, clergy, scholars, activists, journalists and lawmakers and showcase sustainable solutions for gender equality Read More The session is an opportunity to engage key feminists, clergy, scholars, activists, journalists and lawmakers and showcase sustainable solutions for gender equality through efforts like the Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (BWTRC). Held by Black Women’s Blueprint in 2016, this BWTRC is the first of its kind to focus on sexual assault and Black women in the United States. During the session we will showcase sustainable solutions for gender equality and processes for community liberation, such as the truth commissions which are best understood as one of many complementary strategies for addressing legacies of human rights violations, abuse and violence. Session format: Skills Building Organized by Black Women’s Blueprint Read Less Speakers Sevonna Brown National Director Black Women's Blueprint Farah Tanis Co-Founder/CEO Black Women's Blueprint, Inc