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Title: Tina Moore Braimah. Certified Nurse Midwife. Raleigh North Carolina.

Speakers: Tina Moore Braimah, Josephine McRobbie, Joseph O'Connell, Nancy Groce
Series: America Works
Date: March 16, 2023
Running Time: 5:17 minutes

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Description:

This America Works episode features excerpts from a longer interview Tina Moore Braimah, a Certified Nurse Midwife and the founder of Sankofa Birth & Women's Care in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was interviewed by folklorists Josephine McRobbie and Joseph O'Connell as part of their Occupational Folklife Project on “Midwives, Doulas, and Birth Workers,” which documented the training, daily routines, experiences, rewards and challenges of birth workers in diverse communities and occupational settings throughout North Carolina.