reelaviolette botts-ward, PhD, is a homegirl, an artist, and a community curator from Philadelphia, PA. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the REPAIR Project at the University of California, San Francisco, ree brings radical Black feminist healing arts to healthcare and medical science spaces. As founder of blackwomxnhealing, ree curates healing circles, exhibitions, courses, and publications for and by Black womxn. Her first book, mourning my inner[blackgirl]child, was published with Nomadic Press in 2021, and she has published articles, book chapters, and creative works with the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, Routledge Press, the University of Arizona Press, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly, among others. ree received her PhD in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, her MA in African American studies from UCLA, and her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College. For more on ree’s work, visit blackwomxnhealing.com / @blackwomxnhealing / @dr.reelaviolette on instagram.