This month's WomenTalk is about women's health for all ages, and features two guests: Dr. Nikia Grayson and Dr. Diane Pace.

Dr. Nikia Grayson is a Reproductive Justice informed public health activist, anthropologist and family nurse-midwife who has devoted her life to serving and empowering people in underserved communities. Nikia is the Chief Clinical Officer at CHOICES Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, where they have opened the first non-profit comprehensive reproductive health care center in the country and the first birth center in the city. More about Nikia on her website.

Dr. Diane Pace, associate professor at UTHSC College of Nursing, is a certified menopause practitioner and the first nurse practitioner to serve as president of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS). She provides primary care and menopausal health care at the Methodist Teaching Practice as a family nurse practitioner. She is the only non-physician to serve on a menopause curriculum task force to develop a curriculum for residents and other clinicians for the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO). Dr. Pace has published on menopause and is a contributor to NAMS’ “Menopause Practice: A Clinician’s Guide,” “The Menopause Guidebook,” and the NAMS MenoPro app.

This series of WomenTalk are open conversations leading to our Grateful for Great Women celebration on November 14, 2024. Each month we are focusing on exciting and informative topics, to chat, to be inspired and to applaud great women from our nation’s history and our own.

Come yourself or share the invitation with women you know. Join us for conversation and commentary about the world around us, plus enjoy a beverage! WomenTalk is always interesting and exhilarating! 

WomenTalk is an open house tradition initiated by the board of the Memphis Area Women’s Council in 2013, gathering when anything can be discussed and all opinions and fervor are welcome.