CBDLI Advisory Board
The Community-based Doula Leadership Institute Advisory Board is made up of key experts in maternal and child health and providers of community-based doula services. The Board focuses on three areas:
- Public education to promote the use of the community-based doula model
- Advocacy to encourage public/private partnerships to advance fiscal sustainability of community-based doula programs
- Evaluation of outcomes from the network of community-based doula sites
The CBDLI Advisory Board meets three times each year, in-person or by conference call.
CBDLI Advisory Board Members:
- Yeashea Braddock, Community-Based Doula, Brooklyn Young Mother's Collective
- Sheila Capestany, Executive Director, Open Arms Perinatal Services
- Jessica Carda-Auten, Director of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health, Injury and Violence Prevention, National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
- Georg'Ann Cattelona, Executive Director, Bloomington Area Birth Services
- Claire Dunham, Senior Vice President, Ounce of Prevention Fund
- Hawa Egal, Community-Based Doula, Open Arms Perinatal Services
- Rosalba Felix, Community-Based Doula, Access Community Health Network
- Michael Fraser, CEO, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
- Angela Girgenti, Ex-Officio, Women's Health Coordinator, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health - Region VI
- Phyllis Glink, Executive Director, Irving Harris Foundation
- Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, Director, Birthing Project USA
- Arden Handler, Professor, UIC School of Public Health Maternal and Child Health Program
- Angela Hayes-Tolliver, Ex-Officio, Senior Project Officer, HRSA/MCHB/Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services
- Michelle Hoersch, Ex-Officio, Women's Health Coordinator, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health Region V
- La'LaKesha Holmes-Allen, Doula
- Lisa King, Ex-Officio, Women's Health Specialist, HRSA/MCHB/Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services
- Rieko Kishi, RN, NM, PHDc
- Benita Miller, Executive Director, Brooklyn Young Mother's Collective
- Ellen Pliska, Senior Analyst, Maternal and Child Health Policy, ASTHO
- Rise Ross Ratney, Project Director, Northwest Indiana Healthy Start
- Alma Roberts, President/CEO, Baltimore Healthy Start, Inc.
- Margie Schaps, Executive Director, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
- Molly Schlife, Project Coordinator, City MatCH
- Glendean Sisk, Ex-Officio, Interim Title V, Bureau of Infant and Maternal Health, IDHS
- Myrtis Sullivan, Ex-Officio
- Margaret Turner, Director, Heart of Georgia Healthy Start
- Loretha Weisinger, Community-Based Doula, Marillac House
- Beverly Wright, Ex-Officio, Team Leader, Healthy Start Branch, HRSA/MCHB/Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services
Last updated January 2012
