Good Birth Podcast

Sally Pairman is a New Zealander and arrived in the Netherlands in January 2017 to take up the role of CEO at International Confederation of Midwives (ICM).

Bounmy Inthavong, is a current recipient of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Young Midwife Leader (YML) program and the acting Vice-President of the Association of Ontario Midwives (Ontario, Canada).

Motivated by a passion to help pregnancy families experience safe and healthy births, Lakisa Muhammad serves as a community midwife.

Michelle Ivette Ponce is a multi-disciplinary artist, celebrant, and spiritual life coach.

Nashira Baril (she/her) a Black cis woman, is the daughter and great-granddaughter of midwives, who birthed both of her children at home and has experienced firsthand the transformative experience and liberation of midwifery support.

Leseliey Welch, is co-founder of Birth Detroit. She leads a team of birth workers, birth advocates and public health workers planning Detroit’s first freestanding birth center.

Indra Wood Lusero, Esq., (Director, President) is a Staff Attorney with National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and Founder of Elephant Circle, a Colorado-based birth justice organization.

Cris Alonso, MPH, CPM founded the Luna Maya Birth Centers in Mexico. She collaborates with the Goodbirth Network supporting midwifery centers around the world.

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.

Franka Cadée is an expert on Midwifery and advisor on international maternal health, with over 30 years of strategy and policy developments, advocacy, leadership, project management and partnership.

Amy resides in Denver, CO with her husband Paul and six beautiful children. She graduated with a BFA in Illustration in 2005 and has since applied herself to many different artistic venues.

Betsy McNamara serves as Consultant to the Transforming Birth Fund, a donor advised fund of the New Hampshire charitable Foundation. Betsy's career has focused on fundraising for community-based nonprofits. She has raised tens of millions of dollars for organizations in education, human services, affordable housing, the arts, and land conservation.

Michael C. Klein Dr. Michael C. Klein received theOrder of Canada in 2017. His citation reads: "Refusing to serve as an officer in the US Army Medical Corps during the Vietnam War, he fled to Canada in 1967 with his wife Bonnie.

Amy Wright Glenn Amy Wright Glenn earned her MA in Religion and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

RaShaunda Lugrand is an artist, wife, mother and social entrepreneur. Now residing in Oklahoma, RaShaunda is a certified homebirth consultant and homeschool learning coach.

Indigenous Women’s Health and Reproductive Justice Program Manager, has been working with Tewa Women United since 2010 as a community doula, childbirth educator, Certified Lactation Educator and in her current position since 2015.

is the current Yiya Vi Kagingdi Doula Project Coordinator at Tewa Women United. Steph's work at TWU has ranged from coordinating direct services for families in the six Tewa speaking Pueblos and Rio Arriba County..

Belin Marcus is a midwife and founding community stakeholder of BMH. She is a member of Ohkay Owingeh pueblo and the first Pueblo midwife to receive licensure under the LM credential in NM. She trained with BMH from 2012-2017 and is a single mother and Sii’ya (grandma).

Gina Dacosta, de Morovis, PR, asistió a la Universidad de PR. Trabajó como profesora de idiomas y profesora universitaria durante 6 años en Nueva York y Puerto Rico.

Tina Sherman is the Campaign Director for the Breastfeeding and Paid leave Campaigns at MomsRising, an on-the-ground and online multicultural organization..

Professor Saraswathi Vedam will Chair theUS Birth Summit IV: Addressing Our Shared Responsibility to Ensure Equity, Safety, and Respect Across All Communities.

Lena S. Wood is a feminist nurse-midwife, educator, trans-national adoptee, and mindfulness practitioner and teacher, among many other identities.

Suzanne Wertman, State Government Affairs Consultant for the American College of Nurse-Midwives, discussed the impact of the new Title X funding and eligibility rules in the first of a two part podseries on Title X.

Jessica Frechette-Gutfreund LM, CPM, IBCLC, MSM is a midwife and executive director of BMH

Amy Chen, Senior Staff Attorney National Health Law Program, discussing Medicaid coverage of doula care, the process of careful advocacy and bringing the critical voices to the table when beginning any process of accessible doula care for all.