Current Projects 

Every Baby Guilford

​Amplifying Every Voice
By listening to Guilford County birthing people, particularly people of color's experiences with health care, and amplifying their voice to our health care systems, policy leaders, and decision makers, Every Baby Guilford aims to change the lived experiences that racism and implicit bias has created for birth people of color. To reach these goals we believe a focus on language use and the narrative experiences of birthing people can help foster trust between patients and care providers, help care providers understand the power of language use in their interactions with patients, and provide a systemic change to the experiences of mothers of color in Guilford County.

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​UNC & NC A&T BELIEVE
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BELIEVE

Building Equitable Linkages with Interprofessional Education Valuing Everyone (BELIEVE), will be led by Janiya Mitnaul Williams, director of the Human Lactation Program at N.C. A&T; Kimberly D. Harper, perinatal neonatal outreach coordinator at the UNC School of Medicine; Alison Stuebe, M.D., M.Sc., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine; and Kimberly C. Harper, Ph.D., an associate professor in A&T’s English department whose research interests include Black maternal health and reproductive justice.
The project’s goal is to assess gaps in current practice, create a curriculum to address them, and implement the curriculum across a network of hospital and community providers.

Black Rhetorics of health Communication 

BRCH

BRHC seeks to redress social injustices within the medical system by approaching medical discourse from an Afrocentric and African-American rhetorical understanding of community, language, and ethics. The activities generated from using BRHCC as a methodology for health communication can be used to tackle anti-black and social justice practices within healthcare. The praxis includes:
  • Training for medical students and current practitioners
  • Purging ourselves of language that is toxic and disempowering
  • Decentering whiteness as the starting point  for intercultural interactions
  • Citing Black scholars
​This research is supported by a grant from the Council for Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication (CPTSC).