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Anna M. Hennessey, PhD, is a San Francisco based scholar, writer, and artist who has written widely about birth for over 15 years. Founder of the Visualizing Birth website (visualizingbirth.org) and the Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (ssprb.org), as well as Co-Founder of the San Francisco Birth Circle (sfbirthcircle.org), Anna is the author of an academic book titled "Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology Between the Sacred and the Secular" (Roman & Littlefield, 2018). She has taught philosophy and humanities classes in both the University of California and California State University systems, and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and events, including at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the American Academy of Religion.

Anna lives in San Francisco with her husband Toni, their two children, Kieran and Montserrat, and their dog Fergie.