Karen Brody is a writer, social entrepreneur, women's empowerment leader, and mother of two boys. After interviewing 118 women about their birth experiences, she planned to write a book. But instead, with no playwriting experience, she decided to write a play about birth to, in her words, "Put pregnant mothers' voices center stage." Within a year after writing Birth she founded BOLD, a movement that uses the play Birth and Red Tents to help communities Be BOLD and improve birth.