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April 8, 2025 35 mins

Author, health educator, entrepreneur, advocate, founder + advisor Erica Chidi downloads Tabria on how her multifaceted career organically evolved, her approach to feeding as a doula and why she was one of the first to promote “fed is best” + the story behind co-founding LOOM and raising a record-breaking $3 million – making her the 35th black female founder to raise more than $1 million in venture capital – right before the pandemic. Find out why Erica is fighting to close the longstanding gap in research + funding for women’s health, how this gap disproportionately endangers Black women, ways to support her work + a surprise announcement about Erica’s new project!

 

Call on Congress to increase funding for women’s health research initiatives through the National Institutes of Health and other federal channels by signing and sharing Perelel Health’s Close The Research Gap petition today. 


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