Maria Mendoza Openshaw, MS, MBA, CNM, WHNP-BC, is a first-year Ph.D. student in Bioethics and Health Humanities. Her prior education includes A.B. in Latin American Studies and Spanish from Bowdoin College, M.S. in Nursing and Midwifery from the University of California, San Francisco, and M.B.A. from Boston University. She also completed the Fellowship in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. As a midwife, she has worked in a variety of birth settings, including academic and community hospitals, birth centers, and rural health centers in low-resource settings; with a special interest in the care of immigrant and refugee communities. As an educator, she has taught nursing, midwifery, and medical students and residents in the U.S. and abroad, including four years in global health implementation research. Maria is currently employed as Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Mass General Brigham University. Her research interests include organizational and reproductive ethics, in particular the structural, organizational, and policy barriers to high-quality reproductive and perinatal care.