A Beginner’s Guide to Making Imposter Syndrome Your Friend

Guide to Writing for AMPLIFY

A Global Health Corps Publication

Searching For Home

Acknowledging the Limitations of Words in Defining Identity

Housing as a Human Right in the South Bronx, NYC

Diana* had arrived in New York City just one week ago and did not understand how the subway worked. Puerto Rico, her home, was still without power and water after Hurricane Maria. She was pregnant and alone, and when I met her she told me, “I…

Striving For A Day When No Mother Dies During Child Delivery

“When I grow up, I will be rich. I will have a…

Stigma, Strength, and Storytelling

Nadia found out she was HIV positive when she was ten years old. Immediately, she started taking medication and stopped feeling sick. She didn’t realize the weight HIV carried until returning to primary school months later. 
 
“Once my teachers found out, they would…

Strengthening Community-Based Primary Healthcare in Malawi: Developing Health Leaders for the Future

Why Women?

Working at an organization that focuses on women’s empowerment, I get asked the question a lot: why women?

In fact, the question is asked far more often than I would expect it to be. Why is your name The Women’s Bakery? Do you only help women? Why is it focused on just women? Why…

A Supreme Threat on Reproductive Freedom

I consider myself an advocate for reproductive rights. I have my monthly donations set up…