Dr. Sharon Dormire is a professor of nursing at Texas A&M University. She is an expert with over 45 years of practice and teaching in maternal-newborn nursing. She is passionate about addressing disparities in pregnancy outcomes for Black women. In a recent qualitative study, pregnant and parenting Black women identified differential treatment as mothers, marginalization by healthcare providers, and alarmingly, fear of sons being killed, as main stressors. Ongoing work will address this health disparity by listening to their voices. Dr. Dormire’s passion for teaching excellence in practice to the next generation of nurses through interprofessional education defines her.