Kimberly Seals Allers

Kimberly Seals Allers is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, and maternal and infant health strategist.

Kimberly Seals Allers
Occupation	Author
Notable work	The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy

Allers is a former writer for Fortune magazine and senior editor at Essence. Allers has authored five books on maternal and infant health.^[1]

Career

Allers is the founder of New York City-based Narrative Nation, a media and technology nonprofit that addresses racial disparities in maternal and infant health.^[1][2]

The first project developed out of Narrative Nation, was the Irth app, a Yelp-like community-based app for Black and Brown women to find and review prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric care experiences.^[3][4][1]

Allers has authored five books on maternal and infant health. Her first book written in 2005, The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.^[5][1]

Allers's 2017 book, The Big Letdown, How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding combines research and personal stories on the importance of breastfeeding in the U.S.^[6][7]

Allers is the host of the Birthright podcast, launched in 2021. The podcast features positive Black birth stories told from multiple perspectives.^[8][9]

Allers created the Black Birthing Joyline, a phone number people can call to hear joyful stories about birth from people who have been guests on her podcast.^[9]