Photo by Janet Casey

24/7 with Ananda Lowe

My family: is bi-racial.

My work: teaches women they have choices.

My passion: salsa dancing.

My favorite possession: ultra pillow-top bed.

My hometown: the Koreatown area of Los Angeles.

I'm thinking about: walking epidurals.

Words I live by: birth is not an illness.

I can't live without: my 2 half-sisters in Israel.

I am most proud of: my upcoming book with Random House.

What keeps me awake at night: helping moms through childbirth!

If I could be totally wild, I would: go to Africa and build safe birth centers.

Right now I'm reading: The Jewish Pregnancy Book.

The one item that has changed my life: my new condo.

Favorite web site: Match.com.

Last major purchase: my first TV ever in 2007.

My theme song: “I Am Not My Hair” by India.Arie.

If I could do it all over again: I’d talk to my mom more.

My favorite body part: my natural African-American hair.

The food I could eat every day: capers and olives.

The most important thing I ever lost: my dad, who passed away in 2000.

I still can’t get the hang of: 9 to 5 jobs.

I wish I'd known: buy your first home early.

The world would be a better place, if only: \ world leaders danced together.

I'd like to learn to: drive.

Something most people don’t know about me: I helped a woman give birth in her car.

The smartest woman I know: the environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Also in photo: new mom Alisar Cohen with baby Leila.