The Invisible Woman Foundation, founded on the heels of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, was started to fight for legislative change in Texas. At the time, we were advocating for the passing of Texas House Bill 420, a bill that would create a taskforce to investigate the maternal morbidity rate in black women. This taskforce would piggyback off of the progress made by the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee. This committee, backed by the Department of State Health Services, studied the causes of maternal morbidity overall. Publishing biannually since 2014, the committee has published 4 reports outlining their findings including leading causes of maternal death and any oversights observed. The proposed additional task force would provide a more focused approach by studying the maternal morbidity in black women only. Although the bill was not passed in its first run through the house, The Invisible Woman Foundation is working on getting it passed in the next special session.

We are currently spreading the word about our organization and the cause that we are fighting for. So far, we have manned booths at the Sister to Sister Fitness Festival and the Dallas Reproductive Liberation March, raising awareness on the issue and educating women on the discrepancies in our health care system. Our founder, Anjali Pamurthy has spoken at an online town hall meeting, and sat for an interview with Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting, garnering community support. We have many projects in the works aimed at educating and empowering women.