Nadia Naomi Mbonde
She/They
Title: Dr. Nadia Naomi Mbonde
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Issue Areas: Black Reproductive Mental Health, Family Policing, Mental Health Crisis Response, Mad Liberation, Parenting with a Disability
Dr. Nadia Naomi Mbonde is a Black mother, medical anthropologist, and multimedia artist trained at New York University, whose work centers Black reproductive mental health, from menarche to menopause. A lived experience researcher grounded in Mad Studies and disability justice, she treats madness as embodied knowledge rather than pathology. She is committed to mad liberation and reproductive justice, so birthing people and their families can thrive.
