Adonica
Shaw

Advocate. Educator. Author. Founder.

Advocate and educator for women's health and justice, four-time TEDx speaker, and author of nineteen books, teaching, building, and fighting for the care and rights women are too often denied.

19
Books published
4×
TEDx speaker
20+
Technologies
Adonica Shaw

“Believe women before you treat them.”

— Adonica Shaw

Women's Health✦
Femtech✦
Software✦
Medical Devices✦
Advocacy✦
Reinvention✦
Women's Health✦
Femtech✦
Software✦
Medical Devices✦
Advocacy✦
Reinvention✦

[ Biography — File 01 ]

01The Record
02The Work
03Recognition

Pasadena, CA —
Women's health, justice,
engineering & story

The Bio

Love live and ready to fight... for change.

Adonica Shaw is an advocate, educator, entrepreneur and author whose work sits at the intersection of women's health, justice, engineering and storytelling. She is the founder of Wingwomen, a company reborn across several iterations, from a peer support platform, to surgical device work under Operyx, to an AI Health Navigator built on Anthropic's Claude.

Her work is shaped by lived experience: a code blue eclamptic crisis during the birth of her third child. A trained doula and student midwife, she was named one of the Top 136 Black Innovators in STEM and Arts by Wonder Women Tech, and her portfolio spans more than twenty women's health technologies.

“Believe women before you treat them.”

19Books published
20+Health technologies
4×TEDx speaker
136Top Black Innovators in STEM
Adonica Shaw portrait

Recognition

A-01FemTech Device of the Year, MedTech World
A-02Nasdaq Milestone Makers
A-03Wharton Entrepreneurship Growth Accelerator
A-04Contributor, TechCrunch
Adonica Shaw, childhood archive photographArchive — Pasadena, CA

Fig. 01 — Where the work began

Roots & Education

Pasadena born. Shaped by many places.

Born in Pasadena, California, and raised between Youngstown, Ohio and Upland, California, Adonica carries the imprint of every place that made her, and the discipline of the programs that trained her.

Academic RecordEducation & Training
EDU-01UC Irvine
EDU-02MIT Bootcamps (MIT Harvard Medical, MIT Sloan Ventures)
EDU-03Wharton
EDU-04Duke
EDU-05National Midwifery Institute
CertificationsPractice
CRT-01DONA Doula
CRT-02Certified Integrative Health Coach
The Story

A Life Measured in Reinventions.

05 Reinventions — Scroll →
01Reinvention 01

Wingwomen

Building technology around lived experience.

Wingwomen transforms Adonica's reproductive health experience into AI-powered tools, peer connection, and support for women navigating healthcare.

Chapter 01 / 05
02Reinvention 02

Advocacy

Turning survival into advocacy.

Her experiences with reproductive coercion and sexual violence shaped a commitment to reproductive justice, survivor rights, safety, and the right to rebuild.

Chapter 02 / 05
03Reinvention 03

Medical Device Design

Redesigning what was never designed well enough.

Blending clinical experience, technology, and a lifelong love of art and design, Adonica creates medical devices built around real bodies and real clinical needs.

Chapter 03 / 05
04Reinvention 04

Books

Making hard-earned lessons useful.

Her books transform experiences of motherhood, healthcare, entrepreneurship, loss, and reinvention into stories and ideas people can understand, carry, and use.

Chapter 04 / 05
05Reinvention 05

Poetry

Giving experience another language.

Writing began in childhood and became poetry, a lifelong practice of turning observation, emotion, and lived experience into creative expression.

Chapter 05 / 05
The Books

Titles dedicated to finding your voice, becoming accountable, healing, justice and the work of starting over.

Adonica Shaw holding her book, What No One Tells You About Motherhood
From the author

“Every title begins with a truth I lived, then wrote down.”

The Shelf — Selected Titles

Forthcoming

The Poetry

Spoken word and oral essays for the tender parts.

Under Wingwomen Omnimedia, Adonica writes and performs poetry and oral essays on reproductive health, loss, healing and the work of starting over. Listen on your platform of choice.

Listening Room — Wingwomen Omnimedia

Tracklist03 Recordings

Select a track, then stream it on your platform of choice.

The Technology

More than twenty women's health technologies, spanning AI, software and titanium.

Lab Index — 08 Technologies
Adonica Shaw prototyping a medical device by hand[ Fig. 01 — Prototype Trials ]
Designed for precision

I test prototypes for real-world accuracy and precision.

[ Fig. 02 — Instrument ]
Calibryx General Surgery Forceps engraved with SHAW
Calibryx · General Surgery Forceps

Ergonomic Design

Ergonomic design to support physician hand fatigue.

P-06Biodata

NINA

An AI-driven biodata platform reimagining gynecological tools and collecting the reproductive health data research has long overlooked.

P-07Medical Devices

Operyx

Surgical tool development and medical device manufacturing, engineering instruments around the bodies they serve.

P-08Surgical Instrument

Calibryx Forceps

Titanium atraumatic forceps, an ergonomic redesign recognized as FemTech Device of the Year by MedTech World.

In The News

Recent media around the obstetric forceps redesign.

Advocacy & Education

The causes I advocate for, and teach.

Advocacy is not separate from the work, it is the reason for it. Alongside these fights, I educate audiences, students and boards on what the systems get wrong and how we change them, lending my voice, my platform and my time.

The Docket05 Active Causes
[ CAUSE-01 ]

Reproductive Justice

Bodily autonomy and equitable access to reproductive care for every person, everywhere.

[ CAUSE-02 ]

Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights

Believing survivors, and reforming the systems that are meant to protect them.

[ CAUSE-03 ]

Civil Gideon Protections

The right to counsel in civil, domestic violence, custody and divorce cases, so justice is not reserved for those who can afford it.

[ CAUSE-04 ]

Public Figure Defense Rights

Fair process and real protection for those who live and work under public scrutiny.

[ CAUSE-05 ]

Transparent Investment Rights for Tech Companies and Founders

Clear, honest terms so founders and companies can raise capital without being exploited.

New Advocacy Project

Reproductive Reconciliation

An education and advocacy hub for survivors of sexual assault and reproductive coercion, a place to learn, to be believed, and to begin again.

01Learn
02Be believed
03Begin again

An education & advocacy hub for survivors of sexual assault and reproductive coercion

The Values

Four principles I refuse to compromise.

Pillars of Impact — 04
PILLAR-01

Radical Self Advocacy

Women deserve to be believed before they are treated. Every product and page begins there.

PILLAR-02

Evidence & Craft

Empathy is the brief; engineering is the discipline. Beautiful things that also hold up under load.

PILLAR-03

Lived Experience

The work is authored by someone who has been the patient, not just studied one.

PILLAR-04

Relentless Reinvention

A crisis, a pivot, a return. Progress rarely arrives in a straight line, and that's allowed.

The Mission
“

To create products that contribute to the positive wellbeing of men, women and children across healthcare, law and self-development.

That means software and devices engineered based on real use cases, technology that listens before it prescribes, and books that say the quiet parts out loud.

Speaking & Education

Invite Adonica to speak, teach or advise.

Keynotes, workshops, lectures and fireside conversations on women's health, reproductive justice, survivor advocacy, maternal care and building through reinvention, for conferences, universities, boards, healthcare teams and media.

Reproductive Justice & Survivor AdvocacyMaternal Health EducationFemtech & Women's Health InnovationDoula & Midwifery EducationBuilding & Rebuilding a StartupResilience After Crisis
Adonica Shaw speaking
Inquiry DeskKeynotes · Workshops · Press
05Inquiry type

Rebuilding in healthcare, law and design: its tools, its data and its language.

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