From Conversation to Coordination:Advancing Birth Justice Through Community-Led Data
Measure is partnering with Funders for Birth Justice and Equity to transform the conversations, experiences, and insights shared at the 2026 Birth Equity Summit into actionable intelligence that supports collective progress.
About the Partnership
Centering Community Voice in Birth Justice
The 2026 Birth Equity Summit brings together community-based organizations, philanthropic leaders, researchers, and birth justice advocates to explore how resources, relationships, and decision-making can better support birth equity.
Measure serves as the Summit's facilitation, harvesting, and live sensemaking partner, helping ensure that community knowledge is not simply collected but thoughtfully interpreted and translated into opportunities for meaningful action.
Our approach centers lived experience as valuable data while supporting transparent, community-informed decision-making.
Event Day
The Summit in Action
What Measure Is Doing
Our Role in the 2026 Birth Equity Summit
Strategic Facilitation
Led by Measure President and Founder Meme Styles, our team facilitates collective interpretation, strategic dialogue, and action-oriented conversations that help participants move from shared understanding toward coordinated solutions.
Real-Time Community Data Harvesting
Measure uses a structured digital harvesting process to capture insights from plenaries, breakout discussions, and strategy labs. This approach preserves the knowledge, priorities, and experiences shared by participants throughout the Summit.
Live Sensemaking & Responsible Technology
Through a custom digital harvesting and analysis tool built using Lovable, Measure organizes qualitative insights and identifies emerging patterns in real time.
AI-assisted analysis supports the process, but human researchers review and validate insights before they are presented as findings.
Action Planning & Strategic Synthesis
Measure supports the translation of collective insights into priorities, opportunities, and coordinated next steps, including a focus on 90-day commitments with identified owners.
Following the Summit, Measure will prepare structured harvest materials and an executive synthesis to support continued collaboration.
Our Approach
Lived Experience Is Data. Community Voice Drives Action.
At Measure, we believe that the people closest to an issue hold essential knowledge about what needs to change.
For the Birth Equity Summit, our team uses a structured sensemaking framework to organize community insights across nine interconnected dimensions:
Signals
Conditions
Connections
Sustainment
Power
Possibilities
Tensions
Actions
Questions
These dimensions help identify emerging patterns, systemic barriers, opportunities for collaboration, and pathways toward sustained action.
Technology With Accountability
Responsible AI. Human-Led Interpretation.
Measure's approach combines innovative technology with rigorous research ethics.
Our digital harvesting system supports timely organization and interpretation of qualitative data while maintaining clear commitments to privacy, non-attribution, data ownership, and human oversight.
AI is used to assist with identifying and organizing patterns, never to replace community interpretation or researcher judgment.
All findings intended for presentation are subject to human review.
Project Deliverables
Turning Insights Into Tools for Action
Through this partnership, Measure is supporting the development of:
- Summit Facilitation and Sensemaking Alignment BriefPlanned
- Strategy Lab Facilitation ToolkitPlanned
- Digital Data Harvesting FrameworkPlanned
- Structured Summit Harvest PackagePlanned
- Executive Synthesis for FBJE leadership and funding partnersPlanned
- Strategic Handoff Session to support continued coordinationPlanned
These outputs are designed to help FBJE preserve institutional learning, strengthen ecosystem alignment, and inform next steps beyond the Summit.
Meet the Measure Team
The Team Behind the Work
Meme Styles
President & Founder | Anchor Facilitator
Leading Summit facilitation, collective interpretation, and strategic conversations.
Vanetta Johnson
Sensemaking Operations & Technology Management
Supporting onsite technology deployment and real-time harvesting operations.
Dr. Jazmyn Ferguson
Research & Rapid Synthesis Lead
Overseeing remote research operations, rapid qualitative synthesis, and human review of emerging insights.
TC Mack
On-Site Operations & Session Support
Supporting onsite technology, troubleshooting, and key breakout and reflection sessions.
Your Community Has the Insights.
Let's Turn Them Into Action.
Whether you're convening community leaders, developing an equity-centered strategy, or seeking to transform complex conversations into meaningful data, Measure can help.
We partner with foundations, nonprofit organizations, community coalitions, and institutions to facilitate conversations, gather insights, evaluate impact, and support actionable change.