In the course of a career largely devoted to womens sexual and reproductive health care, Chidi has been a health educator, a doula, an advocate for reproductive justice for Black and incarcerated women and a startup founder.

One thing has been consistent, through a litany of roles: She wants women especially Black women to understand their bodies, and to be understood.

Sexual reproductive health is the great equalizer, Chidi told HuffPost in a Zoom conversation. She recalled her time as a doula in San Francisco, where she worked with well-off women and couples in the tech field in private practice and also provided those services to incarcerated women as a founding member of the Birth Justice Project. Everyone, regardless of whether you are super wealthy, or you are not wealthy and in a super challenging situation, everybody wants the same information. Everyone wants to know how to protect themselves and take care of their bodies.