About the founder....
Hi 👋🏼 I’m Molly Dickens, founder and director of The Maternal Stress Project.
I’m a stress physiologist with a convoluted career path: over a decade of academic research → founding team member at a maternal health startup → co-founder and founding executive director of a non-profit focused on gender equity and working motherhood. To make a long story short, throughout these experiences (and the incredible people I have learned from along the way), I've become interested in (dare I say obsessed with?) the intersection of perinatal physiology, motherhood, women’s health, and stress.
The Maternal Stress Project was born out of a personal drive to pull all the pieces together. A way to make stress, as a term and concept, actionable. Creation of a reframe that could open new opportunities to improve health by giving weight to what we know and what we need to know in order to link societal issues, structural and systemic failures, and key solutions (big and small).
While I am leading the project, the work is collaborative by nature and there are a number of key people, who have informed everything up to this point, along with future voices who will continue to shape it. The site will be updated with more about collaborators and experts soon.
The next phases will open up the additional layers of the project so…. stay tuned!