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Erin Miles Cloud

Erin Cloud is a founding co-director of Movement for Family Power. She was previously a supervising attorney and team leader at the Bronx Defenders, a holistic public defense office located in the South Bronx, where she specialized in family defense and represented adults entrenched in the child welfare system. She has published articles and given lectures on the racial disproportionality of the child welfare system and its impact on Black and Brown women and children. In collaboration with the greater fight for reproductive justice for all women of color, she works with Black Mamas Matter to increase equity in maternal outcomes for all Black women. She is a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and Fordham Law School.