Selected journalism stories

• Some big companies are starting to cover the cost of doulas. Will others follow? (The Lily, May 21, 2021)

• Home birth requests ‘went through the roof’ when the pandemic hit. Are they here to stay? (The Lily, May 5, 2021)

• How Wisconsin organizations supporting reproductive health and parenting weathered the pandemic (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 28, 2021)

• Medicaid coverage for doulas and the postpartum period, grants for Black women's health, all part of Gov. Tony Evers' budget proposal (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 28, 2021)

• Behind the growing movement to include doulas under Medicaid (The Lily, March 1, 2021)

• Oregon’s Medicaid program covers doula work, but progress is moving at a ‘glacial pace’ (The Lily, March 1, 2021)

• Doula work is ‘taxing’ with little pay. Can Minnesota make it more sustainable? (March 1, 2021)

• Black maternal health is in crisis. Here’s how lawmakers hope the ‘Momnibus’ package will help. (The Lily, Feb. 8, 2021)

• Anger builds in Black community over Trump’s claims of voter fraud in big cities (The Washington Post, Nov. 20, 2020)

• ‘We’re all in the same family’: These restaurant workers became new parents when the pandemic hit. Here’s how they coped. (The Lily, June 24, 2020)

• ‘Survival mode is in our blood’: How these sibling-owned restaurants are making it through the pandemic (The Lily, June 23, 2020)

• You won’t find these women in textbooks. But in their families, they made history. (The Lily, March 28, 2020)

• Kirkland, Wash., becomes epicenter of coronavirus response as cases spread (The Washington Post, March 1, 2020)

• No one wanted to talk about her mother’s death. So she wrote a play about it. (The Lily, Nov. 11, 2019)

• Jenny Han, author of ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,’ on consent, coming of age and the best type of rom-com (The Lily, May 8, 2019)

• These sexual assault survivors felt betrayed by America’s justice system, so they passed their own laws (The Lily, Feb. 11, 2019)

• ‘Some people say women aren’t funny.’ Midge Maisel proves them wrong. (The Lily, Dec. 6, 2018)

• The sisterhood behind ‘Queen Sugar’ (The Lily, Aug. 15, 2018)

• Women are the fastest-growing group of veterans. Do they get the recognition they deserve? (The Lily, Nov. 9, 2017)

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Alson, J. G., Nguyen, A., Hempstead, B., Moore, A., Wilson, M., Sage, L., Cheng, G., & Doll, K. M. (2021). "We Are a Powerful Movement": Evaluation of an Endometrial Cancer Education Program for Black Women. Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 15(4), 439–452. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2021.0057

• Doll, K. M., Nguyen, A., & Alson, J. G. (2022). A conceptual model of vulnerability to care delay among women at risk for endometrial cancer. Gynecologic oncology, 164(2), 318–324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2021.11.010

• Gamble, C. R., Sage, L., Nguyen, A., Hempstead, B. H., Moore, A., Wilson, M., & Doll, K. M. (2022). Social support and resilience in Black women affected by endometrial cancer. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 226(1), 145–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2021.08.041