In this episode, Holly Varnell, Founder, and Chair, of DREAM BIG shares her professional journey and how she is driving change in the state of maternal care in the U.S.
There is a quote by Desmond Tutu that states: “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
Holly is using this analogy to get to the root causes of the dismal maternal mortality rates for black and brown women in the U.S. and working toward a solution.
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