Speaking

Dear Mama - ATL

Desiree J. Logan, MBA

Founder & President, Mamas Mosaic Collective · Maternal Health Advocate · Duke MBA, Forté Fellow

Desiree Logan speaks at the intersection of maternal mental health, health equity, and community-centered storytelling — bringing the rare combination of lived experience, academic rigor, and strategic expertise to every stage she steps on.

As founder of Mamas Mosaic Collective, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit designated a National Perinatal Task Force Safe Spot for Mothers, Desiree has built and sustained peer support communities for Black mothers across the prenatal-to-postpartum continuum. She has designed and executed multi-partner programming, including Athens, Georgia's inaugural Black Maternal Health Week — and has done it all with the precision of a Duke-trained strategist and the warmth of someone who has walked the road herself.

She doesn't just talk about closing gaps, she builds the infrastructure to close them.

Signature SpeakiNG TOPICS

Maternal mental health

Perinatal mood disorders, postpartum depression and anxiety — destigmatized through data and lived truth.

Black maternal health equity

The systemic disparities, advocacy strategies, and community-led solutions that move the needle.

Storytelling as healing

How naming our experiences — out loud, in community — becomes the first act of recovery.

Peer support & grassroots care

How peer-led communities fill the gaps clinical care leaves behind — and why that model works.

Health system & community partnerships

Building the bridge between clinical institutions and the communities they struggle to reach — through trust, co-design, and replicable collaboration models.

Purpose-driven leadership

Turning personal experience into organizational mission — and sustaining it with strategy, not just passion.

Speaking Experience

• Creator & host — "Dear Mama, Tell Your Story" community storytelling series and recurring Mom Social gatherings centered on connection and maternal mental health.

  Ongoing

• Creator & host — "Grace in Grief", a community space for Black women navigating loss in all its forms — held with honesty, tenderness, and the belief that grief deserves community, not silence.

  Ongoing

• Featured guest — Highlight Your Healing Podcast, "Navigating Motherhood While Grieving Your Mom." An honest conversation about grief, postpartum depression, identity, and what it means to step into motherhood without your mother — and why healing was never meant to happen alone.

  2026

• Lead organizer & speaker — Athens, Georgia's inaugural Black Maternal Health Week, a multi-event, multi-partner initiative addressing perinatal disparities and honoring Black mothers.

  2024–2026

• Panelist — DL Handy Foundation "Break the Stigma" Community Event. Spoke on perinatal mood disorders and shared personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety.

  2024

• Keynote speaker — Annual Conference of the University of Wisconsin System on student-faculty partnerships in learning and teaching.

  2014

• Panelist — AAC&U National Meeting, Washington D.C., presenting research on student experiences with high-impact educational practices.

  2014

• Workshop presenter — ISSOTL Conference, Raleigh, and Gateway Course Initiative Conference, Charlotte, on pedagogy and student-faculty partnership.

  2013 · 2015

Format & availability

Keynotes | Panels | Community workshops | Mental health panels | Corporate Programming | Healthcare Conferences | Virtual & in-person

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