It’s been a few months since our beloved editor Miriam Perez left the mix here at Feministing–and she has been busy while she’s been gone! First, she crowd funded to create a Radical Doula guide which she has been hard at work on, then she helped run this kick-ass Mother’s Day  Day campaign for the Strong Families Initiative and now, she’s giving TED talks on her important work as a radical doula.

Watch The Business (our nickname for Miriam) shine here at DePaul’s TEDx conference.

As this talk makes clear, Miriam is more than an advocate for women who need support with their reproductive decisions–when she talks about compassion, she means it. Having known her and been friends with her for a few ...