Acknowledgements

We at Elephant Circle extend immense gratitude to the individuals and organizations without whom this birth justice landscape analysis would not have been possible. We thank the analysis team for their herculean efforts to take this project from conception to delivery. We are in grateful awe of the design team for making our visions a beautiful reality. We recognize our funders for resourcing this expedition and we are thankful for our community partners and reviewers for guiding our exploratory tendrils. We appreciate our outreach supporters for carrying our seeds, like birds, to new places. Most of all, we thank our interviewees; murmuration participants; survey respondents; and all other valiant individuals who make this particular arrangement of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen into a movement—for their persistence in reaching for the sun and their generosity with their experience and wisdom.

This landscape analysis was produced with research and analysis by Cris Alonso, Danika Lâm, Indra Lusero, Keisha Goode, Leila D. Lewis, Maymangwa Flying Earth; writing by Cris Alonso, Danika Lâm, and Indra Lusero; and leadership and direction by Danika Lâm.

The vision for this landscape analysis was first seeded by Indra Lusero and the constellation of relationships that tend to the soil of our movement.

FUNDERS

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Design Team

Mickey Ferrara, Lead Designer

Jenny Lin, UI + UX Support

Zahra Bukhari, Illustration

Birth Place Lab, Data Visualization

Independent Reviewers

Angela Moreno

Jamarah Amani

Kiki Jordan

Lauren Smith

Marinah Farrell

Pia Long

Saraswathi Vedam

Tenesha Duncan

Wicanhpi Iyotan Win (Autumn Cavender-Wilson)

Zintkala Mahpiya Win Blackowl

Zoë Julian

Outreach Supporters

American College of Nurse-Midwives

Center for Reproductive Rights

​​National Association of Certified Professional Midwives

Our Bodies Ourselves & Our Bodies Ourselves Today