Latona Giwa (she/they) is a Full-Spectrum Doula, Registered Nurse, Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and reproductive justice advocate. In 2011, she co-founded Birthmark Doula Collective, Louisiana's first only worker-owned birthworker cooperative. In 2017, she co-founded the New Orleans Breastfeeding Center, Louisiana's first freestanding breastfeeding clinic. Latona has elevated Louisiana Black birth worker and parent advocacy to channel regional and national media and policy action on the Black maternal mortality crisis. In 2023, she became the Executive Director of Repro TLC, which fills gaps nationwide in comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare provider training, education, and movement building. 

Latona has served on the Louisiana Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review, the New Orleans Maternal Child Health Coalition, and reproductive health legislative commissions. Her reproductive justice impact has been featured in the New York Times Magazine and CBS’s 60 Minutes. Her writing has been published in The Nation, Rewire News Group, and Huffington Post. Her forthcoming chapter on cooperative birth worker organizing in “Reproductive Health, Information, and Power” was published by Library Juice Press in 2025.