Join the Discovery Center, and co-host ParentMap for an engaging discussion on how we can better care for families and communities during pregnancy and parenting. The event is connected to our current exhibition, Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births, and it will delve into such issues as family planning, prenatal care, support for BIPOC families, and what it means to practice self-care. The panel will feature expertise from advisors to the exhibition, including Angela Garbes, author of “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change," Dila Perera, executive director of Open Arms Perinatal Services, and Mercedes Snyder midwife and owner of Something Beautiful Midwifery. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation staff member Kaleigh MacDaniels, Program Officer, Global Health will join the panelists to speak about the foundation’s work around family planning & innovations in the field. Local storyteller Rosette Royale will serve as moderator, and following the discussion, panelists will participate in an audience Q&A.