Rachel R. Chapman, PhD. is a sociocultural, applied, medical, activist anthropologist and professor of Anthropology and adjunct in Global Health and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at UW.  Her work addresses transnational intersections of race, class and gender and politics of health justice in the U.S. and Mozambique.   For 32 years she has illuminated community cultural change and continuity, youth resilience and peace-making, power and performance in oppressed communities – especially movements to end health disparities, including state, institutional and intimate partner violence.  Her expertise includes critical race and Black feminist history and theory, global health disparities and austerity policies, the politics of reproduction especially culturally congruent health-seeking and service delivery, HIV and antiretroviral treatment in pregnancy, decolonial pedagogies and community action research methodologies.  She champions Black love, birth and futures, building community conditions where everyone can flourish and reach fullest potential for collective action towards, universal healthcare, food, income, shelter, dignity, equity, peace with justice, and planetary health.  She is proud of her identity as a poet, performer and transformative, somatic social justice worker.