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MEET

OUR TEAM

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Shantay R.

Davies-Balch

MBA, CLE, Doula 

President & CEO

Tinicia

McPeters

Contracts Administrator

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Saloome

Muhammad

Facilities & Operations Manager

Antanae

Brown

Marketing Assistant

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Ta-She-Ra

Manning

Program Coordinator II

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Essence

Woods

Community Health Advocate II

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Lucine

La Porta

 

Legislative Aide

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Clerica

Lopez

Community Health Advocate I

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Kata

Nemeth

Executive Program Manager

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Brittany N. Edwards, CNM, WHNP

Certified Nurse Midwife Manager

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Allison

Birkle

Marketing & Communications Manager

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Breyonna

Gaines

Doula Training Facilitator

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Virginia

Smith-Valencia

Operations Coordinator

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Tanya

Rodriquez

Community Health Advocate III 

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Naury

Ramirez-Casillas

Community Health Advocate II

Hollye

Jenkins

Community Health Advocate I

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Marcie

Santana

HR/Program Manager

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Julie

Bounchareune

Program & Evaluation Manager

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Britany

Rios

Executive Assistant to President & CEO

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Emma

Heinrichs

BLACK Doula Network

Education Coordinator

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Kimsa

Nguyen

Program Coordinator III

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Yuliana

Ochoa

Community Health Advocate I

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Bikere

Ikoba 

Community Health Advocate I

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Maisha

Hicks

Community Health Advocate I

MEET OUR BOARD

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Shantay R.

Davies-Balch

​MBA, CLE, Doula 

President & CEO

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Laura

Ward

Director

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Venise C.

Curry, M.D

Director

Dr. Hovig

Artinian MD, FAAP

Director

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Subhashini

Ladella M.D., FACOG

Director

COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL

Serenity White-Ilole

Advisory Member

Serenity
White-Ilole

Breyonna Gaines-Barrett

Advisory Member

Breyonna
Gaines-Barrett

Nicole Hutchings

Advisory Member

Nicole
Hutchings

Brittany Collins

Advisory Member

Brittany
Collins

Vaunshaie Brown

Advisory Member

Vaunshaie
Brown

Savannah Finley

Advisory Member

Savannah
Finley

Nia Hodge

Advisory Member

Nia
Hodge

OUR INVESTORS

Central Valley Community Foundation logo
PHI logo
Together Toward Health logo
Cradle to Career logo
Anthem logo
Stanford Medicine logo
Blue meridian partners logo
healthnet logo
Elevance Health logo
First 5 Fresno County logo
Healthy Fresno County logo
Horning Family Foundation logo
Flora Family Foundation logo
Women's Foundation California logo
USF California Preterm Birth Initiative logo
The Center at Sierra Health Foundation logo
Facebook logo
United Way Fresno and Madera Counties logo
Saint Agnes Medical Center logo
CalViva logo
Self Help logo
Silicon Valley Community Foundation logo
Black Infant Health logo
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FOUNDING CONTRIBUTORS

Chandelle Black

Anonymous

Kerri Horn

Julie Linxwiler

John Lockett

Nikiko Masumoto

Elaine McGraw

Kaye Bonner Cummings

Daryl Balch

Daren Miller

Scott Miller

Sarah Moffat

Gretchen Moore

Salam Nalia

Nikki Newsome

Gerald Palladino

Elliott Balch

Sandra Thompson

Suzanne Bertz-Rosa

Tonya Reavis

Claudia Ruiz-Alvarez

Antonio Sanchez

Carolina Simunovic

Steven Stegmaier*

Kathryn Stevens

Mark Stout

Network for Good (Facebook birthday fundraiser)

*Largest individual founding contributor--Thanks, Steve!

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