Nashira Baril, MPH
Nashira (she/her), a biracial Black ciswoman, is the daughter and great-granddaughter of midwives. She experienced the sacred care of community midwives at the hombirths of her siblings and her own two children. With a master’s degree in Maternal and Child Health from Boston University School of Public Health and nearly 20 years of experience designing and implementing public health strategies to advance racial equity, she founded Neighborhood Birth Center in 2015 and co-founded Birth Center Equity in 2020. Neighborhood Birth Center will be the first-of-its-kind community birth center in Boston, providing community midwifery to strategically address the maternal health crisis. Nashira brings a structural analysis and embodied practice to the design and implementation of public health strategies that advance justice and equity. She has worked at the Boston Public Health Commission, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Human Impact Partners. A self-identified country-mouse, she feels most free when she is barefoot in the grass or jumping in a lake. Nashira lives with her family in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Pawtucket, Massa-adchu-esset, Pokanoket, and the Wampanoag people.
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Type of financial relationship:There are no financial relationships to disclose.Date added:09/08/2023Date updated:09/08/2023