Ep 06: Kathryn Hall-Trujillo
Kathryn Hall-Trujillo | Founder, The Birthing Project
For over forty years, as a public health administrator, community health educator and advocate in the public and private sectors, Ms. Kathryn has been addressing the racial and gender divide in women’s access to healthcare. Her work has culminated in Birthing Project USA: The Underground Railroad for New Life, which is a global maternal and child health organization. Working in 13 countries. Her experience in understanding, translating and bridging policy, administration, services delivery and client cultures have earned her national and international recognition, including CNN Hero and one of Twenty One Leaders of the 21st Century by Women E-news.
Ms. Hall-Trujillo has received the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health Life Time Achievement Award and is an Ashoka Global Social Entrepreneur Fellow. She is an Independent Scholar of the Cuba Public Health System, serves on the Medical Advisory Board of IFCO, the administrator of the US Cuba Medical School Scholarship Program and serves as adjunct faculty for CDU and visiting professor for the Cuba National School of Public Health, where she facilitates Immersion Course for US students and professionals.
As faculty at University of San Francisco, she was co-developer of the Public Health Leadership Program for the Sacramento campus. Ms. Kathryn is a consultant and mentor to many community leaders, students and young professionals, to whom she is affectionately known as Mama Katt.
Birthing Project USA Company Profile: The Underground Railroad for New Life is an international organization to improve birth outcomes for women of color by providing technical assistance and support to replicate and sustain the Birthing Project models of providing education, support and access to care and services to women and their families. The projects are based on grassroots, community-based leadership, womanish principles and belief in the power of sisterhood. More than 13, 000 babies have been born into Birthing Projects in the US, Canada, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba; Malawi, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria.
