Sevonna Brown is Co-Executive Director of Black Women’s Blueprint. She leads the Safer Childbirth Cities Initiative through Merck for Mothers maternal health portfolio. She is also recognized as a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellow for her writing through the Op/Ed Project. Her work has been published in Ebony, TIME Magazine, ForHarriet, and Rewire News. She serves on the board of Children of Combahee, which mobilizes against child abuse in Black churches. She has been featured in the documentary “The Business of Birth Control” directed by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein. She is also a recipient of the Mellon Mays fellowship for her research on Black maternal health. At Black Women’s Blueprint she oversees advocacy campaigns, co-chairing the NYC4CEDAW, addressing localized efforts to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. She has provided training and technical assistance to a number of organizations through the Institute for Gender and Culture (IGC) including but not limited to: Jackson State University, Tougaloo College, Florida Memorial University, Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA), the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Assault. Sevonna Brown is certified in the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®),the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence that is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes.