Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of HOMELAND MATERNITY: US CULTURE AND THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE REGIME (University of Illinois Press, 2019), an award-winning book that examines the policing of pregnancy and parenting in the United States from a rhetorical perspective, and DOING GENDER JUSTICE: QUEERING REPRODUCTION, KIN, AND CARE with Professor Shui-yin Sharon Yam, currently in production with Johns Hopkins University Press. She has published numerous essays on rhetoric and reproductive justice in outlets such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Women's Studies in Communication and Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies. Fixmer-Oraiz co-directs the Reproductive Justice Obermann working group at the University of Iowa with Professor Lina-Maria Murillo. Her scholarship and teaching emerge from a combination of academic training alongside two decades of experience in reproductive politics as a community organizer and advocate in a number of local and regional contexts.