Sheryl Nestel received her PhD from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she taught between 2000-2011. She is the author of numerous journal articles on race and the health professions as well as of Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery (UBC Press, 2007) which was recognized as the book of the year for 2007 by the Canadian Women’s Studies Association.