Dr. Monica R. McLemore is a visiting professor at the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University. Prior to this, she was a tenured, full professor and the Director for the Manning-Price Spratlan Center for Anti-Racism and Equity in Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 145 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, eight amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and four National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American. She became the Editor in Chief of Health Equity Journal in 2022.