Ca'la Kian Connors
Biological and Medical Anthropologist
PhD Candidate | Department of Anthropology | Northwestern University
Ca’la K. Connors is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Northwestern University and is training to become a DONA International-certified birth doula. As a scholar, she specializes in biocultural approaches to intergenerational transmission of stress and care during pregnancy and birth.
Her work has been generously supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation (through a Graduate Research Fellowship), and multiple Northwestern University grants, including the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Global Health Program, and the Program of African Studies.
"Womanist is to Feminist as Purple is to Lavender”
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)