Co-Fouonder and Executive Director
Black Women Birthing Justice
Oakland, CA
Linda Jones is a Birth and Postpartum Doula, Photographer and mother of two, grandmother of four and great-
grandmother of four, who lives in Oakland, CA. and has been a part of the natural birth advocacy and
reproductive justice community in the Bay Area for over three decades.
She is one of the co-founders and Executive Director of Black Women Birthing Justice (BWBJ) (blackwomenbirthingjustice.com) (2011-
present) and is co-author of Battling Over Birth; Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis in California.
Linda is the facilitator/instructor for BWBJ’s Doula Collective Training Program.
Linda’s recent work has been centered around training and mentoring women of color to be Doulas for low income
women of color. This was started in 2014 when she was a part of the East Bay Community Birth Support Project.
Linda has been a part of the UC San Francisco Preterm Birth Initiative Community Advisory Board (UCSF Preterm
Birth Initiative-CAB) (pretermbirth.ucsf.edu) for the past five years. (2016-2022) In this capacity she reviews grant
requests and co-authors research studies and their impact on the preterm birth issue for women of color.
Linda is the Director of Community Collaboration and Board Member for Mothers for Mothers Postpartum Justice
(MPJ) (m2mpostpartum) (2020-Present) working to provide a program that provides restaurant meals to postpartum
women for six weeks after the birth of their child. This program supports BIPOC women and BIPOC owned
restaurants. MPJ works with established organizations in the Bay Area that provide innovative ways to deal with the
problem of disparities that occur around the perinatal period.
Linda is also a consultant with BelovedBirth Black Centering (2020-Present) at Highland Hospital
(http://www.alamedahealthsystem.org/family-birthing-center/black-centering/).
She provides maternity and or birth photos for the participants at no charge to them.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT