Amínata (Amíkolé) Maraesa is an adjunct assistant professor at NYU School of Professional Studies and Fordham University. Her academic works include In a Good Position for Birth: Pregnancy, Risk, and Development in Southern Belize (2018, Vanderbilt), Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience (2012, Vanderbilt), and Woman to Woman: Addressing the Need for Doula-Assisted Childbirth (2003, DER). Amíkolé is a certified yoga instructor and developing a non-profit holistic health institute, Mango Meditation Healing Arts Center, in Punta Gorda, Belize (www.mangomeditation.com). And her line of shea butter beauty products has gone international at www.amikole.com.