Okunsola M. Amadou has received a Nancy Hanks Award for Rising Stars from the American Alliance of Museums.
Amadou is founder in residence of The Historic Jamaa Birth Village Cultural Heritage Center and founding chief curator of the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum and African Indigenous Midwifery Library & Research Institute.
She is Missouri’s first African American certified professional midwife and the state’s first Black registered CPM preceptor. Amadou also founded Missouri’s first Black midwifery clinic and school.