WASHINGTON -- For Jennie Jacoby, JD, healthcare bias is a two-generation problem in her family. "My story started with my mother, who is a Black woman," Jacoby said in a phone interview, adding that her father is white and Jewish. "When my mom was pregnant with me 32 years ago, she had access to really great care, but unfortunately due to some implicit bias and medical racism, she had preeclampsia and the doctors completely missed it -- they assumed she was just an overweight black woman, which is really a dangerous assumption to make; that, on top of doctors being distracted by the fact that my parents were in an interracial marriage, really caused harm to her pregnancy. She almost lost her life and I was born at 3 lbs. 12 oz."