Walker Karraa, PhD, is a provocative thought leader in the field of maternal mental health. Through her writing and research, Walker pushes the edges of current concepts of maternal mental illness in order to reveal unexplored terrain in women's psychology and philosophy. After the traumatic birth and severe postpartum depression of her son in 2000, she dedicated her career to advancing knowledge regarding mental health in mothers. She was a certified birth doula CD(DONA) for nearly a decade before returning to school to complete her doctorate in transpersonal psychology. Walker is the Founder of STIGMAMA, a site dedicated to supporting women's writing about the stigma of maternal mental illness.