Kimberly Seals Allers is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, and maternal and infant health strategist.
[1] Allers is the founder of New York City-based Narrative Nation, a media and technology nonprofit that addresses racial disparities in maternal and infant health.
Her first book written in 2005, The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
[5][1] Allers's 2017 book, The Big Letdown, How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding combines research and personal stories on the importance of breastfeeding in the U.S.[6][7] Allers is the host of the Birthright podcast, launched in 2021.
The podcast features positive Black birth stories told from multiple perspectives.