Join us in New Orleans, August 26th – 28th, 2026 where Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, Inc. (ROSE) and Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere (ROBE) will gather lactation support providers, birth workers with clinicians, parents, fathers, elders, scholars, researchers, policymakers, allies and community partners for our 15th Breastfeeding & Birth Justice Summit: “The 92%: Breastfeeding, Power & Birth Justice”. All are welcome who are ready to learn, listen, share and act to help to increase breastfeeding in America’s underserved communities.
Together, we will examine how “Breastfeeding in the United States”, reproductive control, and medical exploitation continues to shape who gets to birth, breastfeed, parent, and protect their families with dignity, and how we can expand their rights.
Grounded in community wisdom and lived experience, this summit is more than a conference; it is a strategy room. Participants will identify and uplift community-led models that center in proving support for those communities in need of maternal and child health support. Several dedicated sessions will focus on fatherhood highlighting ROBE’s work, father-focused breastfeeding and safe-sleep education, and strategies to bring fathers from the margins into the heart of perinatal decision-making. Through plenaries, story circles, fatherhood tracks, and action planning, we will leave New Orleans with concrete tools, shared language, and a sharper roadmap to advance breastfeeding support, father-inclusive care, and Birth Justice across the South and the nation.