Jennifer Stevens has been a midwife for over 15 years. As director at Reading Birth Center, she attended births in home, hospital and birth center settings. She began global work in 2010 in Haiti, interned with WHO in Geneva, and is currently working with UNFPA in Bangladesh on their Strengthening National Midwifery Program. She is co-founder of GoodBirth Network, networking midwifery centers globally, especially in low resource areas, to encourage their growth and high quality with standards. At GoodBirth Network she facilitated consensus around the global definition for midwifery centers, completed a pilot study demonstrating their safety, and created and validated process standards for quality. She is currently finishing her doctorate in Public Health at Boston University, focusing on a human rights based approach to maternal health care.