
E954: Rushion interviews Director Tonya Lewis Lee about Black Maternal mortality addressed in her documentary, Aftershock!
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Tonya Lewis Lee is a producer, film director, writer, entrepreneur, and women's health advocate who has been delivering meaningful content that resonates with marginalized communities for over twenty years. Her latest project, Aftershock, is an Original Documentary from Onyx Collective and ABC News Studios, streams Tuesday, July 19 on Hulu. It journeys into the world of childbirth complications experienced by minority women.
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What is MOVITA ORGANICS
PLEASE, BABY, PLEASE
Maternal death rate during birth.
Why C-Sections are so prevalent during birth.
THe importance and history of mid-wives.
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Tonya Lewis Lee is a producer, film director, writer, entrepreneur, and women’s health advocate, delivering meaningful content that resonates with marginalized communities for over twenty years. As a television producer, Lee served as Executive Producer on the episodic Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It. She produced her first limited series, Miracle’s Boys, at Nickelodeon based on the Jacqueline Woodson Novel of the same name which remains classic television today.
Tonya Lewis Lee created Movita to help women gain a baseline of good nutrition, and a practice of positive choices that support a lifestyle of well-being. Tonya’s professional journey into health and wellness started in 2007 when she began serving as the National Spokesperson for the “A Healthy Baby Begins with You” campaign initiated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. It was through this work as a women’s health advocate that her own health journey took form, ultimately embarking on a lifestyle of wellness. This personal health journey coupled with her entrepreneurial spirit led Tonya to create Movita for women.
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