~~Midwives, Witches, and Harlots~~Arisika Razak~~~

– Arisika Razak, RN (Registered Nurse), CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife), MPH (Masters in Public Health) has worked for over thirty years in the fields of Women's Spirituality/Women's Studies/Women's Health, Spiritual Dance, and Nurse-Midwifery. She has achieved local, national and international recognition in these fields as an educator, artist, practitioner, and author. Presently, she is the director of the WSE program at CIIS in San Francisco, CA. As an educator in the field of Women's Studies/Women's Spirituality, Ms Razak has been interviewed in the publications: New Age Journal; Women of Power; Snake Power; and Goddessing Regenerated. She is one of 18 extraordinary women featured in Cathleen Rountree's book of interviews and photographs: On Women Turning Forty, which includes Susan Griffin, Barbara Boxer, and Maxine Hong Kingston. She has articles in three books: Children of the Dawn: Visions of the New Family; Reweaving the World: the Emergence of Eco-feminism, and the introduction to Childbirth Wisdom. In Fire Eyes, the full-length feature film by an African woman to discuss the issue of female genital mutilation/female circumcision, Arisika discusses her work with women and their bodies, as a midwife, healer, and workshop leader.