Executive Director
Executive Director
Stevie Merino
Håfa Adai, Stevie Merino (Sol and Roots) is a proud queer indigenous islander woman (CHamoru & Boricua) raised in the diaspora of the LBC. She wears many different hats as a: cultural practitioner, community organizer, anthropologist, birthworker, IBCLC, speaker, and trainer. She has been a doula since 2015. Stevie has been a community organizer & activist since 14 years old, her politics shape the way she approaches life & this work. She is a mami to a 7 year old. Stevie is the Executive Director, and co-founder of the Birthworkers of Color Collective and doula of Color training
Board of Directors
Advisory to the Board
Academic Advisory
Alexandrina Agloro
Alexandrina Agloro (Indigenous Chicana/Filipina) is an ancestral technologist whose work spans the intersection of media art, community-based research, and birthwork. She is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation in the Borderlands at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University. Dr. Agloro’s work lingers on how decolonization is deeper than a set of values, and anticipates how land, water, body, and internet sovereignty can move us from the imaginary into collective action. She is a Director of Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM), a multiverse collaborative feminist technology organization, and is the Futurist for the Latinx Pacific Archive. She is also part of the advisory circle for Parteras de Maíz, an Indigenous and traditional midwifery advocacy organization.
Medical Advisory
Jadah Parks Chatterjee
Jadah Parks Chatterjee is a maternal child health Registered Nurse & International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. Jadah values evidence-based, quality care, that is collaborative, compassionate and shared with love.
Jadah assists families during the prenatal period by providing safe infant feeding education to empower and implement informed decisions during the postpartum journey. As a Registered Nurse, Jadah supports families during the postpartum period at a local hospital in Los Angeles .
A graduate of Louisiana State University and Mount Saint Mary’s Nursing School. Jadah co-authored, "Sticky, A Germ’s Story".
Jadah is a badass #rockmom, born and raised in Louisiana, residing in Los Angeles. She works full time, raises a young brown boy, loves being #wifey, and passionate about improving the maternal and infant mortality rates for her community.