Kiwasi Apeh, a mother of three and wife, brings 23 years of experience in maternal health, where she excelled as a Birth Doula and Childbirth Educator. Throughout her journey, she also worked extensively in health and human services, providing essential social services support to underserved populations. Though now a retired Birth Doula, Kiwasi continues to apply her expertise in servant leadership and population health.

She is the Founder/CEO of Black Birthworkers Rock, Patern-ology Solutions and her international initiative Ufedo Birthwork and Global Resources. In her current roles as a consultant, public health nurse, advocate, and community organizer, she remains focused on addressing disparities and improving public health outcomes worldwide.

We will also interview Christina Jemine, LM, CPM, Founder and CEO of Black Sisters Birth Academy, Birth Assistant Instructor.

Christina Jemine is a devoted mother, midwife, motivational speaker, teacher, and accomplished children’s book author. Before founding Black Sisters Midwifery Services and becoming a midwife, Christina dedicated over a decade to the field of maternal-child health. This included six years as a Mother-Baby and Pediatric nurse at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, her hometown. Christina loves teaching others about the beauty of birth and gets great joy from sharing her gift of learning with others. She is a graduate from The Florida School of Traditional Midwifery in Gainesville, Florida; a 3-Year Direct Entry Midwifery Program.

As Founder and CEO of Black Sisters Birth Academy®, Christina trains aspiring Black community midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants through her curriculum-based birth assistant programs that are intentionally designed for them. Her programs equip them to support community midwives with births in out-of-hospital settings as certified birth assistants. The academy’s creation was stemmed from Christina’s own need to find a birth assistant training that was for us and by us to train her own birth assistant and the options were not there. As Christina puts it, “if you don’t see what you want, build it.” And that’s exactly what she did. Black Sisters Birth Academy® has since successfully trained and certified birth assistants across the nation.

She is also the author of “My Mommy Makes Milk” – you don’t want to miss hearing her wise words.

Kiwasi Apeh, Madriella Certiifed Birth Doula, & Christina Jemine, LM, CPMI