Our worlds make us who we are. That has been the lesson I have learned again and again since I was a young child. Growing up in a majority-minority neighborhood in Washington, DC, I learned the value of encounter with difference across racial and class lines. At college in Pennsylvania, and in a year-long fellowship in West Virginia, I came to appreciate the way that rural worlds shape their residents. I also spent a year studying abroad in the Czech Republic, and later spent two years teaching in South Korea. Both of those places revealed to me the degree to which political, social, and cultural worlds shape their inhabitants. But we also shape our worlds in turn. My scholarship, professional trajectory, and personal passions all focus on what kinds of worlds we might fashion, given the practices and habits we have inherited. I focus especially on the ways our bodies are shaped by the worlds within which we live, and how we might use our bodies to make those worlds just a little bit better. My research focuses specifically on how pregnancy and gender fit into our desire to bring about a more just world. My classrooms, too, are laboratories for ethical embodied living in the world.