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- Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://birthfuture.org/blog/watering-the-seeds-grant monthly 0.5 2024-10-03 https://birthfuture.org/blog/lpctc7o11e7no49t1wvhy5s5js32gx monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://birthfuture.org/blog/we-fund-black-midwives monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/c38e95fb-c0b3-4db2-a0ab-53d413bf3724/1.png BFF Blog - We fund Black midwives. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/717ff75d-336a-4ffc-9464-8ce4286bf598/2.png BFF Blog - We fund Black midwives. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/b12b2af4-4fac-42ee-843b-708b37b654fc/3.png BFF Blog - We fund Black midwives. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://birthfuture.org/blog/2023-grants-awarded monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://birthfuture.org/blog/2023/join-us-dec-7-annual-bff-celebration monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/7adb2aa0-d5c6-4930-9244-503f7e33e2fe/2023+Dec+event.png BFF Blog - Join us Dec 7 - Annual BFF Celebration - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://birthfuture.org/blog/2023-in-memory-of-kirsten monthly 0.5 2023-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1698035719544-OP6SFOMIQDCUYE3MIP1W/In+loving+memory+of+Kirsten+Kowalski-Lane%281%29.png BFF Blog - In Memory of BFF Co-Founder and Midwife, Kirsten Kowalski-Lane - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://birthfuture.org/blog/2023-tending-to-the-soil-grant-cycle-is-open monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/ef21f5da-1f31-4729-b8dc-73885cee993c/5.png BFF Blog - 2023 “Tending to the Soil” Grant Cycle is Open! 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When she learned about the midwifery model of care, it resonated with her desire to promote empowerment and incorporate humanity within health care. Audra trained as an apprentice at a birth center in Michigan, studied at the Michigan School of Traditional Midwifery, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Midwifery from the Midwives College of Utah. Audra’s love of shared learning has found a calling in the classroom and she now serves as a faculty member at the Midwives College of Utah. Through her academic work, she hopes to foster evidence-based, holistic, and inclusive providers. Audra is a former board member and secretary of the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1604952088256-DQVTLNYJAJ9BOUFDGNXP/image-asset.jpeg About BFF - Janis Gildin, CPM Co-founder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/d6b2ca73-9b04-4c3f-a157-9bb2e49a1632/IMG_4525+%281%29.jpg About BFF - Tanya Smith-Johnson Executive Director, co-founder Tanya Smith-Johnson is a mother of six, homeschooler, Naval Hospital Corps veteran, advocate for full spectrum reproductive health care and justice, birth equity and the improvement of health outcomes especially for Black, Native and Indigenous people. In addition to being Executive Director of Birth Future Foundation, Tanya is a Certified Professional Midwife, Board President of Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC), and the President of the National College of Midwifery, a direct entry midwifery school for midwives who practice traditional midwifery and out of hospital birth. Tanya is a fierce leader, strategist and creative thinker. She brings new life and energy to any project or organization she is a part of. She is a critical thinker, program developer, and maternal health specialist. She brings expertise in grassroots strategizing and outreach, consumer education and legislative advocacy in several states. She is skilled at connecting the big picture and grassroots, as it helps to educate and inform how midwives can be implemented in local, county, state systems, institutions and organizational frameworks. Tanya has held many roles in advocacy and leadership including: president of California Families for Access to Midwives; Vice President of the Midwives Alliance of Hawaii; Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery; Policy Director and Community Based Doula Program Director at Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii; Director of Outreach, Advocacy and Education for The Big Push for Midwives; BirthPlace Lab’s Global Perinatal Task Force; and member of the Hawaii Women’s Coalition and the Hawaii Commission on the Status of Women where she co-authored the nation’s first Feminist Economic Recovery Plan in response to Covid-19. Tanya has 30 years of medical experience working in military medicine as well as various birth centers and community birth settings providing medical and midwifery care. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology and Master of Science in Medical Science from Hampton University. She currently resides in Mississippi with her husband of 24 years and six children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1604952134405-1NGUB2XYKT3TPJH5ZLMY/MeganCandid-1.jpg About BFF - Megan Wilder co-founder Megan is a birth and women’s health advocate who found her own journey to motherhood enlightening and empowering. Thanks to her community of caring midwifes, doulas, and birth educators, her mind and story were forever altered during her first pregnancy and the birth of her daughter in the comfort of her own home. She witnessed other mothers experience contrasting journeys and was motivated to help future birthing families have better birth outcomes. Megan is the former treasurer of the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery. Megan currently works as an innovation coach in Silicon Valley and is a certified public accountant, specializing in nonprofits. She brings over twenty years of experience advising businesses in accounting, management, and innovation. Her goal is to increase awareness and access to the midwifery community to help women and families experience the benefits that follow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1ed4dbd4-33ad-4fec-ad7a-ff72056fec90/BFF+team+2023.png About BFF - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1604951772851-UP893PADJIGNCQ656E1D/Chanel.jpg About BFF - Chanel L. Porchia-Albert co-founder Chanel L. Porchia-Albert is the founder of Ancient Song Doula Services, a reproductive health organization focused on providing resources and full spectrum doula services to women of color and marginalized communities. Her work within infant and maternal health has led her across the globe to Uganda where she served as a maternal health strategist in rural war town areas to address the lack of resources to birthing mothers. She is a certified lactation counselor, midwifery assistant, and vegan chef and has served on various advisory boards throughout the country. Currently, she serves as a consultant for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene engaging providers in birth justice and serves on the advisory board at Ariadne Labs at Harvard Medical School. She is a former board member of the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery. When she is not teaching or facilitation workshops, you can find her spending time with her six children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1604952050278-ZU12UOFA7O4NWCT22KAB/emily_sh2.jpg About BFF - Emily Anesta co-founder Emily is a consumer advocate for safe, accessible perinatal care, especially access to midwives for everyone. Emily served as a board member and then president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery from 2017-2020 where she partnered with the Executive Director and Board to guide the organization through a shift in focus to center racial justice in midwifery and birth and equitable approaches to fundraising and grantmaking. Emily co-founded the Bay State Birth Coalition in 2016 to advocate for policies to expand access to midwives and out-of-hospital birth in Massachusetts. Emily is also a co-founder of the Birth Equity and Justice Massachusetts. Emily was an Executive Producer of “Why Not Home,” a 2016 documentary about home birth in the U.S. Emily birthed her two children at home attended by midwives and was herself born at home with a midwife. Emily has a Master and Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. For over a decade, she led technology research and development projects at MIT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1605622412413-FBYSVDQ2TJ2KA3G9UT02/Lauren_photo.jpg About BFF - Lauren Brown co-founder Lauren Brown became enthralled with birth at an early age. While earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology she felt a strong calling to get trained as a doula through The Doulas of North America. During her senior year in college she volunteered as a doula and discovered her passion for women's health. She learned the importance of having an advocate and maintaining autonomy during childbirth and felt very honored to be serving in that role. She has been a birth doula since 2007 and has helped support over 550 families in the Bay Area. Birthwork has been an ongoing journey for her and in 2008 she decided to augment her doula practice and enrolled in Alive and Well! The Institute of Conscious Bodywork. Through her experience in supporting pregnant people, she knew how effective loving touch can be when providing comfort during birth and also saw it as a great way to connect with clients. She strongly believes in providing holistic care to her clients. In 2011, Lauren continued her journey by enrolling in the National Midwifery Institute and went on to be trained as a homebirth midwife in San Francisco. She graduated from NMI in 2014. Since graduating Lauren has found her passion for teaching and has created three childbirth education courses, "Pregnant! Now What?", San Francisco Birth Center's Childbirth Prep Intensive Skills Course and a five week childbirth education class that is specifically designed to prepare people for a homebirth. Lauren now works as a midwife's assistant, birth and postpartum doula, bodyworker, childbirth educator and birth photographer. Lauren was a board member of the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery from 2016-2020 and is grateful for the opportunity to create a new space with BFF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2370c9a528f80546c61ef7/1605623105258-AKRZ640LXV9TF7MSUIT1/RaShaunda_photo.jpg About BFF - RaShaunda Lugrand Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. 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