About
Dr. Nadia Naomi Mbonde is a medical anthropologist, Family Systems Strategist, and multi-media artist. Her research centers Black reproductive mental health across the full lifespan—from menarche to menopause—examining the structural conditions that shape how Black women and birthing people experience care, crisis, and survival.
She holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from New York University. Her scholarship is grounded in reproductive justice and mad liberation, and moves across peer-reviewed research, film, photography, and digital media.
Based in New York City, she works directly with mothers and parents navigating family court, child welfare systems, and high-conflict family situations. As a trained birth and postpartum doula and mental health peer support specialist, she brings together siloed fields.