Angela is a graduate of Alcorn State University in Mississippi. She is a pediatric nurse with over a decade worth of experience to include emergency care. She enjoys the fast pace of the ED and being able to be there during the stressful times families may experience. Outside of nursing, Angela enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 children. Her hobbies include baking and traveling.

Maddie has enjoyed the role of full-scope midwifery for the last 7 years at a Federally Qualified Health Center. She spent 13 years prior to that as a full-time labor & delivery and postpartum nurse. Women’s healthcare has been her lifelong passion and professional calling. Improving healthcare access and care equity are high priorities. This includes a focus on fostering health literacy, client autonomy and empowerment. As the mother of twins and a beloved rainbow baby, Maddie understands the importance of feeling informed and receiving respectful care. When she isn’t caring for women and families, she loves to spend time hiking and camping.

Ellie has over 10 years of experience as a midwife including prenatal, labor, postnatal care and education. She has worked extensively with young parents delivering all aspects of midwifery with the caseload model of care and the Family Nurse Partnership programme. Her main passion lies in empowering women to be confident in their ability to grow and care for their babies. Ellie currently works with vulnerable families in a large teaching hospital.

Lizzie is an experienced International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and has been a qualified Nurse-Midwife for over a decade. She has worked since 2008 in numerous roles as a Nurse, Midwife, Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife and Specialist Public Health Nurse. All of which adds to her being able to offer holistic and in-depth breastfeeding support. Lizzie’s main role at the moment is being a mom to her two gorgeous children. Lizzie cares deeply about giving families compassionate care, practical support and comprehensive information to support families in their individual breastfeeding journey.

Maha is a Registered Midwife practicing full-scope in a diverse community. Maha provides prenatal and postpartum care in the community, and intrapartum care wherever her clients choose to birth – whether that be at home, hospital, or birth centre. In addition to English, Maha is fluent in Urdu/Hindi and American Sign Language, and has an educational background in linguistics and languages, with a particular focus on language acquisition in utero. Maha is committed to making midwifery more accessible to ethnically and linguistically diverse communities and currently serves on various provincial and national associations whose aim is to make midwifery care more inclusive.

Roshena is a Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with 15 years of experience in the realm of maternal child health. Her experience in the clinical setting, combined with teaching in the university setting, has given her a wealth of experience in many aspects of maternal and newborn care. As a mom of two, Roshena also brings valuable real-life experience and understands the various successes and challenges that come with parenthood.

She is passionate about empowering families by utilizing the most up-to-date evidence-based information in a supportive environment. She truly believes that parent education is imperative in one of life’s most vulnerable moments, and bringing evidence into practice helps parents to establish and fulfil their goals. Roshena is excited to work with you in our classes in hopes of leaving you feeling confident and well prepared for your exciting journey ahead.

Jennifer is a full scope Certified Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner who has over 10 years experience working with birthing families through prenatal, labor and delivery and postpartum care in a busy healthcare facility. She has speciality training in supporting vaginal birth and trauma-informed care. Jennifer believes birth has the power to instil trust and confidence in our bodies individually and collectively and this experience is passed down through generations of birthing people. She is passionate about reproductive justice, ending disparities in care and building strong, healthy communities through investing, empowering and educating birthing people. In her free time, Jennifer enjoys traveling and making art.

Belisia has been working with families and their babies since 2017. She began her career as a Certified Lactation Counselor for a supplemental nutrition program which specializes in better health outcomes for mothers and babies. During this time, she wanted to learn more about lactation and furthered her education to become an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. She was determined to learn more about maternal child health and received her bachelor's in applied science shortly after. Since then, she has worked with many moms and their babies to overcome breastfeeding challenges. Being a Lactation Consultant for Belisia never feels like work because she truly loves what she does.

Belisia is also a wife to her supportive husband and mother to her three children (and fur babies). She breastfed her three children successfully but not without some obstacles along the way. Each of her children presented individual struggles with breastfeeding which made her so driven to work with families to help them achieve their goal of breastfeeding. Belisia believes every family deserves the utmost care which is why she strives to give her all when educating about lactation.

LaKasha's healthcare profession spans 17 years. She always aspired to be in maternal child health nursing. She holds Bachelors' and Masters' degrees in Nursing from Winston-Salem State University and a Doctorate of Nursing from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. LaKasha's passion for birthers led her to become a midwife.

LaKasha started her career as a Labor and Delivery Nurse and later worked in private practice, college health, and public health. LaKasha's many years of women's health experience gives her a strong understanding of pregnancy, family planning, breastfeeding, and gynaecology health– including how to converse with patients about these sensitive issues and supporting patients in risk reduction behaviors. Her approach to care is education, prevention, and shared decision-making.

She states, "One thing that excites me most about my midwifery career… is that we (healthcare providers) can provide education, integrative and collaborative care for women and families." In her spare time, she enjoys sports, dancing and singing with her husband and children.

Emily has been practicing as a full-scope certified nurse-midwife for over a decade having earned her master’s in midwifery from The Ohio State University. She is nationally board certified and has been lucky enough to “catch” almost 1,000 babies so far! Emily has experience attending births in both in a hospital setting and in a freestanding birth center. In 2019, she authored a journal article on the outcomes of water birth in the hospital, as well as a textbook chapter on evidence-based OB care. In 2020, she began a full-time faculty position and is now teaching certified nurse-midwife students. She places great value on patient education, whether during pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum, or well visits. Informed consent and shared decision making have always been cornerstones of her practice. She is committed to furthering equity in pregnancy care in the US in order to address racial disparities in pregnancy and infant outcomes.

Jannah is a Nurse-Midwife with over a decade of experience and also a Mom of three. Having started as a birth doula for low-income families, Jannah went on to complete a BSc in Nursing and a MSc in Nurse-Midwifery over the course of her career. As well as becoming a childbirth education instructor, Jannah is hugely passionate about helping expectant parents prepare for the wonderful journey ahead. Jannah believes that education truly is power and understands that increasing the knowledge of childbearing families can decrease the echoing, trans-generational economic, and racial disparities that they are faced with. Jannah brings with her a wealth of knowledge, having empowered families across numerous States in the country.

Dr. Elyse Cho graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. After graduation, Elyse worked as an RN in a labor and delivery ward in a large hospital. With a special interest in breastfeeding and delayed cord clamping, Elyse graduated with honors Doctorate of Nursing Practice in Nurse-Midwifery soon after. Elyse believes pregnancy and birth are naturally beautiful and is passionate about providing supportive midwifery care to all women who desire it. Elyse has experience at a public hospital, helped establish midwifery at a private practice and hospital, and has experienced home birth with her own children. Elyse lives and works in Texas with her daughter and their furry friends. In her free time, Elyse enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, and baking, spending time at the beach, and traveling.

Having obtained her Masters in Nursing, CNM and WHNP certifications in 2014, Laura has done a large portion of her training working in the area of homebirth, and after graduation attended births in the hospital setting. Prior to then, she worked as a nurse and postpartum doula where she would educate new parents both in their homes and in the hospital setting regarding infant care, breastfeeding and postpartum care. Currently, Laura cares for patients within a large community health clinic providing family planning, women’s health, obstetric, and postpartum care with a sex-positive and body affirming approach. Her greatest joy in her practice comes from seeing the clients in her care feeling educated, heard and empowered. Aside from work, Laura is also a busy mom!

Cris has been a practicing Nurse Midwife for 28 years and a busy mom of 4 children! She has delivered well over a thousand babies during her career. She spent several years doing a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at Duke University. Cris has practiced in all areas of women’s health at both large university medical centers, clinic settings, as well as private practice. She is passionate about empowering women and helps them to realize their internal strength during pregnancy and delivery.

Siobhan has been professionally caring for women for nearly 30 years and has had the honor of attending thousands of births. She is a natural teacher with over 20 experience as both a Certified Nurse-Midwife and childbirth educator. As Siobhan guides families through pregnancy, she draws from her own experience as a mother of twins and an extensive and varied midwifery career. She shares her expertise from attending births in homes, free standing birth centers and hospitals including waterbirths and as a surgical assistant for cesarean sections. She has taught maternity care to both nursing and midwifery students. She is passionate about helping growing families understand their birth options and make informed decisions.

Emily has been working with moms and babies since 2003. She started her work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as an RN. In the NICU, she discovered her passion for empowering families to make informed decisions and become active participants in their care. She completed her Masters in Midwifery through Frontier Nursing University in 2015. She started as a midwife in a freestanding birth center, then transitioned to “catching” in the hospital setting for private practice. She now works as a hospitalist in a busy labor and delivery unit. More than anything, she loves to witness the birth of a parent. She believes education is the foundation which helps women step into their own power during their pregnancy and birth. She has 2 girls, one born in the hospital and one at home with a midwife.

Regina has been caring for women, birthing people, and families for close to 15 years. She holds a BA in Development Economics, a BSN in nursing and an MSN in both nurse midwifery and family medicine. She is currently a doctoral candidate in advanced nursing practice. Gina began her career as an advanced practice nurse with the United States Indian Health Services. She did so in an effort to serve communities affected by colonization and institutionalized racism. Within IHS, Gina provided midwifery care and full scope family practice medicine to indigenous and underinsured populations. Now, Gina practices full scope midwifery in a major academic medical center and free standing birth center. She also is appointed faculty in her institution’s School of Nursing where she teaches in both the registered nurse and nurse midwifery programs. Gina is deeply committed to equity, inclusion and justice. She believes that the empowerment of families through their reproductive years allows for direct healing of our communities.

Hannah loves being a midwife! She completed doula training while earning her Bachelors of Science in Nursing and then went on to complete her Masters in Midwifery through Vanderbilt University in 2015. She began her midwifery career at a federally qualified health center and then moved into a private practice, both in the hospital setting. Hannah is passionate about partnering with and empowering women during one of the most vulnerable times in their life. Her areas of interest are vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) and peripartum mental health. She has two daughters and loves that she is able to use her personal birth and postpartum experiences to help other women!

Lucina has practiced full spectrum midwifery for almost twenty years and has been an IBCLC for close to a decade. In her career, she has served hundreds of families through preconception, pregnancy, birth, the postpartum and beyond. She is committed to providing the most current evidence based care and served on her state midwifery licensing board. Lucina was also the director of an urban community breastfeeding center that supported families from all backgrounds through their entire breastfeeding journeys. She was recently appointed to the steering committee for her state’s universal home visit program, which will provide home visits from healthcare professionals for all families with new babies. Lucina is passionate about equity and inclusion and believes that parents are the ultimate experts on themselves, their babies, and their own unique families. She is the devoted mom of three awesome children.

Penny has been a Nurse-Midwife for over 3 decades and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) since 1999. She earned her PhD in Nursing Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago with research examining how healthcare providers learn to support breastfeeding mothers. In addition to her midwifery practice and teaching, Penny worked as an IBCLC for a service that covered 300 births per month. Penny is a Mom to 3 grown sons and most recently served as Director of the Nurse-Midwifery and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner programs at The Ohio State University.

Larissa is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), a registered Dietitian, and a Doctor of Health Sciences. She has experience as a Lactation Consultant in both the acute hospital setting as well as her own private practice. Larissa works as a part-time adjunct professor teaching nutrition and lactation courses at multiple universities. Her passion lies in educating expectant and new parents with lactation knowledge to give them the skills and confidence to reach their breastfeeding goals. She is also a busy mom of 3 boys.

Marisa has been working with families and their babies since 2003. She began her career by spending 12 years as an RN in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and it was here where her passion for working with moms and their babies began.
Driven by her unwavering desire to help new mothers, Marisa became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 2015. Since then, she has had the pleasure of working with thousands of mother-baby dyads as the lead lactation consultant in her local hospital. Her enthusiasm for her work is evident in her first meetings with patients.

Marisa maintains just as much love and dedication in her home life. She is the mother to three beautiful children who she successfully breastfed and a wife to a devoted husband. Her family’s support, and her motivation to ensure that a new mom’s experience is a smooth and joyous one, gives Marisa all of the energy she needs to continue to give top notch instructions to her patients and students.

Molly is an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and has been working with breastfeeding families since 2016. She has a bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology but quickly found her passion for breastfeeding shortly after graduating from college. Molly owns her own private practice where she works inside a birth center supporting those who have just given birth, as well as members of her community. She believes that it is important to provide unique evidenced based support to breastfeeding parents to help them meet their feeding goals. She loves empowering them along the way and making sure to customize each visit to that family’s specific needs.

Molly enjoys spending time with her loving husband and amazing one year old daughter who she is still breastfeeding. She loves to bake, spend time outside and drink coffee.

Rebecca is a Registered Nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and is also certified in Perinatal Mental Health. Rebecca has been working with babies and families since 2005. She has experience in antepartum, postpartum, newborn nursery, and Neonatal Intensive Care settings. Through her experience as a nurse, Rebecca developed a love of helping families on their breastfeeding journey, and became a Lactation Consultant more than 10 years ago. As a Lactation Consultant she has worked in the community seeing families in their homes, and in several hospital settings, including one large maternity hospital that delivers more than 9,000 babies per year. Rebecca is a mom to 3 gorgeous boys and is a military spouse.

Hannah is a Nurse-Midwife and proud mama of one. From an early age, she was intrigued by pregnancy, birth, and newborns, so after training as a nurse, it was obvious that becoming a midwife was the perfect next step. With experience in a bustling academic facility, a community hospital, and a busy private practice, Hannah comes to The Baby Academy deeply passionate about maternal health education and believes it is one of the most meaningful and impactful elements of her work.

Lindsey is a Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN) who specializes in children’s emergency care. She works in one of the nation’s top 10 best children’s hospitals, specifically within the busy Emergency Department.
Her current role involves pediatric emergency care research nursing, where she collaborates with in-hospital interdisciplinary team members, outlying hospital systems, and other academic research centers across the nation and world to continually improve the standards of care for pediatric emergency patients.
In addition to her extensive pediatric emergency care knowledge, she also has experience working as a labor and delivery nurse. These experiences have involved caring for mothers and babies throughout the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum stages. Lindsey has a strong passion for educating others, family-centered care, pediatric health promotion, and primary injury prevention.

Alycia is a Pediatric Nurse and IBCLC. She has worked with new families for over twenty years as an IBCLC, nurse, birth and postpartum doula, and nanny. For the last five years, she has worked as a nurse in pediatric primary and urgent care at a large community health center, helping triage parent’s concerns over the phone and in person. Alycia also works as an IBCLC at a large academic medical center, a community hospital, and in private practice, helping parents learn to feed their infants. She has had the pleasure of serving on the boards of both the Massachusetts American Nurses Association and the Massachusetts Lactation Consultant’s Association. She is currently enrolled as a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student with a focus in Pediatrics at Boston College. Alycia looks forward to utilizing her DNP education to help close the gaps in the public health system that adversely affect new families and new immigrants. She is passionate about helping families navigate the many challenges of parenthood. Alycia is also the mother of a busy two and a half year old.

Lydia is a registered nurse with over 12 years of experience. She has worked in pediatrics, labor, delivery and postnatal care, and currently works in urgent care. Prior to becoming a nurse, she was a birth doula providing families with education and support before, during, and after the birth of their babies. Lydia loves caring for young children and families, and empowering parents with knowledge and encouragement. Most importantly, Lydia is the mother of two children who keep her learning all the time! She enjoys sharing her expertise and is passionate about increasing the support around other parents and caregivers!

Sue is co-founder of The Baby Academy, Midwife, Childbirth Instructor and a busy Mom of two. With over 15 years’ experience Sue has worked in all areas of Midwifery such as Birthing Suite, Antenatal wards, Postnatal wards and currently manages The Antenatal Education Department in a large Maternity Hospital.

Emrist is a licensed professional counselor and has over ten years experience working in mental health and social work settings. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama in the area of psychology and her master’s degree from Oklahoma State University in the area of counseling. Emrist has advanced training in the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders through postpartum support international and is pursuing certification. She is passionate about educating and supporting moms and families during the perinatal period. Emrist lives with her husband and daughter and enjoys spending time at the beach.

Jubi is a compassionate Midwife with over 5 years of hands-on experience. Over this period, she has developed a deep understanding of a woman’s physical and emotional needs on their journey to motherhood. Beyond Jubi’s clinical expertise, she is also committed to educating and empowering women to make informed decisions about their health and pregnancy.

As well as this, Jubi is passionate about raising awareness for equality in maternity healthcare settings. She does this by sharing empowering information on how women from black and brown communities can advocate for themselves during pregnancy and birth.

Angie is a highly experienced nursing professional with over two decades of diverse clinical expertise, including high-risk Labor and Delivery, Neonatal ICU, Mother-Baby Care, Mental Health Nursing, and Nursing Education. Her extensive career spans across both the east and west coasts, where she has taught newborn care, birthing, and parenting classes in military and civilian communities. Angie's dedication to patient education and her ability to empower individuals to achieve their health and wellness goals have been a cornerstone of her career. In her leisure time, she coaches Special Olympics and finds serenity in nature by paddle boarding with her faithful companion, Shadow.

Jenn has worked as a Registered Nurse and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) for almost a decade. She has spent most of her time as an RN working on a very busy postpartum floor. It wasn't long into her career as a nurse that she discovered her passion for supporting breastfeeding mothers. Jenn values compassionate care and evidence-based education for families as they step into the wonderful season of parenthood! She continually strives to empower parents to have the knowledge and confidence to care for their newborn.

Jenn loves traveling with her husband and 2 boys! Her perfect day is watching a beautiful sunset with her toes in the sand and a sweet tea in hand.

Maria has been supporting women and babies for more than a decade. First as a patient care assistant in Postpartum, then as a prenatal educator in a birth center and community clinic for underserved families, and then as a nurse in Labor & Delivery, Antepartum, Postpartum, and the Newborn Nursery. When she discovered midwifery, Maria knew she finally found her calling. She earned her Masters in Midwifery at Frontier Nursing University, and completed her training alongside brilliant and intuitive midwives in a variety of settings, both in hospital and out of hospital. Empowering families through education and encouraging women to trust their inherent intuition are the most rewarding aspects of the job. She considers it a deep honor to do this sacred work, along with her own motherhood journey of raising 2 babies!

Paige began her career as a massage therapist, focusing on fertility, pregnancy, and infant massage. She has a degree in psychology, where she studied women’s mental health specifically. Paige has been a registered nurse, focusing on Maternal Child Health and Mental Health for over a decade, working in a high-risk hospital, a free-standing Birth Center, a perinatal mental health clinic, and building educational digital coaching programs. Paige believes in caring for the “whole” person, which is why she addresses not only physical health but also social-emotional into her practice of education and community outreach. She is passionate about improving Birth Equity for Women of Color and other marginalized communities, striving to improve the experience and outcomes for all birthing people and their families. Paige has 3 young children, each delightful in their own special way, and each with their own special birth story.

Andrea is a Nurse Midwife who has over a decade of experience in caring for women, babies, and their families. She is a firm believer in "knowledge is power" and loves helping families navigate their pregnancy and parenting journeys through education, support, and real-life experience. Andrea enjoys crafting, running, and traveling with her husband and four children.

Nikki has been practicing as a Certified Nurse-Midwife for nearly 10 years. She has worked in a full-scope role at a private practice where she saw patients in the office and delivered babies at a small community hospital. Most recently she has worked as a hospitalist on the labor and delivery unit of a larger teaching hospital. For the past several years Nikki has also served as a clinical preceptor, teaching and training the next generation of midwives. She recently became a mom herself to a darling and spirited 8 month old girl and she considers it a joy and a privilege to accompany parents on their own journeys through pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and parenthood. In her spare time she enjoys reading books and drinking coffee, preferably at the same time, but she's not picky.