Mia is a dynamic, inspiring speaker who connects with a diversity of audiences. Some of her most popular talks include:

• Reimagining the future of family in America

• America’s way forward: Black women leading, shine theory, and love

• Action into being: Be a better ally

• The story we tell about poverty isn't true

• Bravery and generosity: Crossing borders and creating community

Watch Mia speak. Read her words. 

• Watch Mia's TED talk.

• Watch Mia’s PopTech talk.

• Watch Mia's talk about liberation in the context of education.

• Mia discusses poverty on the Tavis Smiley Show.

• Watch Mia’s TED interview the Black Lives Matter co-founders.

• Mia and Anne Marie Slaughter talking about policy for America's modern families on Forum.

• In this piece for the Pacific Standard, Mia Birdsong advises looking past stereotypes and to black Americans for models of 21st-century families.

• In Praise of the Auntie, Mia's piece for Slate.