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Peyton Brooks pey-ton bruks (she/her/hers)

Peyton Brooks is a 2023 graduate from the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon, majoring in visual journalism and minoring in bio-cultural anthropology. She has worked internationally as a newsroom intern as well as with a group of other students to produce documentaries in Oregon.

In the South, grassroots activists are working to combat maternal mortality rates. Among them, from left, are: Maya Hart and Monica Simpson of SisterSong; Iesha Lynch, a birth, death and postpartum doula; Maya Jackson, founder of MAAME; and Tina Braimah, a midwife and owner of Sankofa Birth and Women’s Care. (Photos by Shelby Rae Wills/News21)

Activists unite to fight maternal mortality post-Roe

Black women are far more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white women across the U.S. In the South, activists and providers are working to overcome these disparities, which they worry will worsen amid abortion bans.