Dr. Debra Bingham has over 30 years’ experience in Maternal Child Health Nursing, a master's degree in perinatal nursing from Columbia University, and a doctorate in Public Health from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Most of Debra's career has been spent working in hospital leadership positions at the front lines of healthcare. For example, she has held the positions of Director of Maternal Child Health Nursing for 2 union hospitals in New York City, Manager of a large referral Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in New York City, a stand-alone birthing center in a small community hospital, and a fetal evaluation unit.

Debra has expertise in Quality Improvement (QI), health care safety, and implementation. Her focus is on how to improve front-line clinician’s quality improvement implementation effectiveness. Dr. Bingham has developed and led several QI inter-disciplinary initiatives designed to improve the safety of healthcare. She is an author of numerous articles published in peer reviewed journals and of implementation toolkits. Dr. Bingham was the first Executive Director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative where she helped form the collaborative and the California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (CA-PAMR) committee, co-authored the Obstetric Hemorrhage Toolkit and the Elimination of Elective Deliveries Prior to 39 Weeks Toolkit, and launched the first CA-Obstetric Hemorrhage Multi-Hospital Collaborative. Debra was the Vice President of Research, Education, and Practice for the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) where she led the development and launch of the Postpartum Hemorrhage Project, the Women’s Health and Perinatal Nursing Care Quality Measures, the Maternal Fetal Triage Index, and the #POSTBIRTH Warning Signs program. Debra was the Vice-Chair and Chair of the Council in Patient Safety in Women’s Healthcare (a volunteer organization comprised of representatives from 17 professional organizations). Debra is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and former Chair of Lamaze International's Institute for Safe and Healthy Births.

Debbie Young has dedicated over 35 years to her family and other families in the “childbearing year”. While raising her 5 children with her dedicated husband she found a passion for helping pregnant, birthing and postpartum families. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Promotion: Women’s Health and a Master’s in Leadership. Debbie has worked with over 5,000 families in hospitals and private settings as a childbirth educator, doula and lactation specialist. She is a Past President of DONA International, current President Elect for ICEA and continues her work as an educator, birth and postpartum doula and doula trainer. She is currently the Customer Relations Manager for InJoy Birth and Parenting Education where she connects with professionals to provide materials to educate their clients and patients.

Karen creates learning experiences built from her mindfulness-based embodiment practices that are essential to safe, compassionate and unbiased care delivery, while preventing burnout. Her 30-year career spans the intersections of care delivery and system design, training and mentorship models for birth workers, and health care quality improvement. Leveraging technology and the power of collaboration, she is working to improve access to pregnancy care support systems, while preserving the autonomy and sustainability for the doulas and providers that serve their communities.

Cristina is a midwife and Harvard educated Doctor of Public Health. In over 20 years she has worked to improve access to reproductive rights, choice and care in Central and South America, Mexico, Haiti, Afghanistan, and recently in United States.