OCTOBER 16-17, 2025, CINCINNATI, OH
at the Graduate by Hilton Cincinnati Hotel
Cradle Cincinnati is proud to host the 4th Annual Cradling Cincinnati Summit, bringing together community leaders, healthcare professionals, advocates and changemakers to drive innovation and equity in maternal and infant health.
This year’s event is part of a two-day experience:
On Thursday, October 16, we will convene a private Queens Village Leadership Summit, where cohort leaders from 14 chapters across the country will gather to connect, reflect and co-create strategies that improve Black maternal and infant well-being and health. This intimate session centers leadership development, collective power and cross-chapter learning.
On Friday, October 17, we open the doors to the broader community for the Cradling Cincinnati Summit, where we’ll showcase bold ideas, proven strategies and community-led solutions to tackle the systemic inequities impacting Black birthing people and their families.
Join us in celebrating and elevating the work happening across Cincinnati and beyond to ensure every baby — and every mom — has the best start.
Keynote Session
What Harriet Sees When She Dreams: Black Women’s Self-Making, World-Building, and Future-Casting in a Time of Erasure
In this timely and unflinching discussion of the threats (and opportunities) impacting Black women’s health, socioeconomic wellbeing and leadership, award winning public intellectual and advocate, Tracie D. Hall, draws on lessons from the life and history-shaping vision of abolitionist Harriet Tubman whose dreams of freedom paved the way for her healing and liberation and that of hundreds of others.
Tracie D. Hall
Professor of Practice at the University of Washington Information School
Presenter Bio
Tracie D. Hall is Distinguished Professor of Practice at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle, Washington.
Formerly executive director of the American Library Association, Hall was the first Black woman to helm that organization in its 150-year history and has previously served in key library, arts, and philanthropic leadership roles nationwide.
Holding degrees from University of California at Santa Barbara, Yale University, and University of Washington, Hall’s work has focused on advancing early and adult literacy, intellectual freedom; and the right to read.
In 2022, Hall received the National Book Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023, Hall was named to TIME Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people and received the Medal for Freedom of Speech and Free Expression from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Institute.
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