Meet the Team

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Moya Bailey

Director

Moya Bailey is the originator of the term “misogynoir” and author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021). She is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University, the founder of the Digital Apothecary and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020).

She attended Spelman College where she initially endeavored to become a physician. She fell in love with Women’s Studies and activism, ultimately driving her to graduate school in lieu of medicine. As an undergrad she received national attention for her involvement in the Nelly Protest at Spelman, a moment that solidified her deep commitment to examining representations of Black women in popular culture.

Dr. Bailey is a graduate of the Emory University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. She is the founder and co-conspirator of Quirky Black Girls, a network for strange and different black girls. Learn more at moyabailey.com.

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Jason Walker

Cinematographer

With more than two decades of experience in visual art, Jason brings both a creative eye and a technical knowledge to all elements of filmmaking. His ability to construct a narrative with the tools made available to him is enabled through his background in photography and animation. His years spent in the advertising and PR industries give him an understanding of how to cull the good ideas from the bad, and how to turn a fleeting creative spark into an idea that can be communicated to an audience.

In 2020, Jason a unique opportunity to begin working with grassroots BIPOC women-led health interventions on narrative strategy and production. Since 2020, he has worked with numerous BIPOC-led health equity organizations producing critical narrative pieces that have been a key part of broad reaching educational, fundraising, and advocacy efforts.

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Tejumola Adegoke

Executive Producer

Teju Adegoke is a reproductive justice advocate, researcher, and OBGYN physician. Her work focuses on repairing the broken relationship between those who administer OBGYN care and those who receive it, particularly those at the intersection of marginalized racial identity and lower socioeconomic status. She has spent over a decade training, working, and teaching at safety-net institutions in the United States, where she observed the cracks Black and brown patients can fall through in the healthcare system. 

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Whitney Peoples

Executive Producer

Whitney Peoples is an anti-racist feminist scholar, facilitator, and consultant. She brings over 20 years of experience in feminist and critical race research, activism, and teaching to her work as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She holds a PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University, an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Cincinnati, and a BA from Agnes Scott College. She has spoken and written on the intersections of race, gender, health, and popular culture and, more recently, on anti-racist organizational change. Dr. Peoples has deep roots in reproductive justice and black feminist health movements and has had the honor of working and serving with organizations such the Texas Equal Access (TEA) fund; Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice; The National Women’s Studies Association; Birth Center Equity; 500 Women Scientists and many more. She is a co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective and co-editor of the book Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations|Theory|Practice|Critique.