 My name is Micah and I are a fine-a, my pronouns are she, they, and I have a bachelor's in anthropology and I went back 10 years later and got a master's in applied anthropology. I guess I initially thought of myself as a nutritional or nutritional anthropologist, but now I actually mostly work in birth equity and looking at the maternal, specifically the black maternal health crisis and why anthropology, you know that is a question. I just keep getting pulled back to it over and over again. I honestly believe that it's what really keeps pulling me back is the black anthropologist and especially the black feminist anthropologist. I didn't discover that until almost halfway through my graduate career and coming to the ABA, to the ABA, and actually attending the the ABA Association of Black Anthropologists sponsored events really changed my perspective and even pulled me more into anthropology and I just find that the tool of ethnography, the complicated history with anthropology, all of those things are useful even in the critical reflection and I find that it's the one field that I can take into other aspects no matter what the training that I have as anthropologists, the way I think about things, research things, write about things, and you know critically engage and the methodologies of ethnographies are really just interesting enough to keep me coming back and wanting to continue to engage with discipline.