Talita Oseguera

Talita Oseguera is a midwife, full-spectrum doula, breastfeeding peer counselor, placenta encapsulator, advocate for reproductive justice, and mother.

She recently completed nurse midwifery training at the University of California, San Francisco. As a graduate student, she worked as a field nurse with SOLARS, one of the first, large-scale studies designed by women of color partnering with pregnant through postpartum Black and Brown women and individuals to understand the impact of stress, anxiety, and racism on preterm birth in addition to resilience and coping as protective factors.

She is a former cocoordinator of the Family Planning and Reproductive Choices elective within the Obgyn Department at UCSF and member of Nurse Students of Color. Talita coauthored Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis, the second publication of Oakland-based Black Women Birthing Justice, of which she is a collective member. Her interests include reproductive justice, honoring and amplifying the voices, experiences, and issues of Black women and individuals across the sexual, reproductive and perinatal continuum, walking alongside birth workers of color who reflect the communities they serve, and improving care for and with Black women and individuals.