Our Speakers
"A Heart of Worship"
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| Alicia Huntley ACNM, CNM |
Alicia is in a full-scope
midwifery practice. She works in the office doing gynecology and prenatal and postpartum care and delivers at 3 local hospitals. She is a CNM in Illinois, and has been a CNM since 1996. Alicia attended the University of Southern California, Las Angeles CA. She has her Masters in Nursing, and Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery. She was elected to Sigma Theta Tau, nominated for departmental honors. She also has a degree in Literature in English, she majored in French language and literature. Alicia has been published in Midwifery Today, the Birth Kit and several on line publications. She has taught other midwives at various conferences.
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| Doran Richards CPM, Founder at Blessing God's Way (BGW), Owner at BGW Full of Grace Yoga (shown with her husband in the photo) |
Doran became a CPM in 2011 and has been practicing for 5 years as a CPM in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She attended births for 15 years with 9 different preceptors. Doran is the owner and founder of a ministry for women called Blessing God’s Way - Maidenhood, Maternity, Menopause. Doran wrote a book called: A Celebration of Pregnancy which gives instructions on how to perform a Christian blessingway and how to support women in childbearing. Doran began Blessings God’s Way in 2001. She is the author of Maidens by His Design, which a curriculum for young women and their mothers teaching about how their bodies are created to cycle and it is a normal life function. She recently became a registered Holy Yoga instructor with a specialty in pre-post natal yoga. Doran was the director of her state-wide midwifery advocacy organization from 2002-2004 called Midwifery Options for Mothers, has taught for CMI, and helps often with her state organization events. Doran has been married 23 years and they have 6 children.
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| Doreen Lawton M.Ed, CPM |
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| Ireena Keeslar CPM, CBE |
Ireena originally was planning on being a elementary art teacher, and went to school for that. But 6 weeks before she was to graduate, she had her first baby and her life changed! Ireena began her birth work in 1992, after the birth of her 5th baby. She worked as a assistant in OB assisting during the deliveries. She usually cared for the babies. She worked for WIC for a short time. She went on to get her LPN and worked as a LPN from 1993 to 2004. She worked at 2 different hospitals in OB, and on med-surg and worked in a nursing home as a nurse for a short time. She began working as a nurse in a free standing birth center when it first opened in 1997. Soon after that she began her studies to become a midwife. She became a CPM in 2001. Ireena also taught child birth classes from 1992 and still teaches now and then. She built a large Amish class, beginning the first year with only one or two couples that were Amish each year, ending up with 6 classes a year with from 25 to 28 couples in each class. I reena has worked in 2 different free standing birth centers, and started 2 other free standing birth centers, all owned by others. Ireena has worked in the ministry, working with the Lakota Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. She began doing mission work on the reservation in 1993, averaging from one to 3 trips a year. She retired this ministry a few years ago, now that there are 2 people who live out there full time, that first went thru the ministry that Ireena began. Ireena has taught at several state midwife conferences, as well as CMI, and does classes for midwifery students from California, to Tennessee. She has served on the board for CMI for several years, and also on the states Midwifery organization several times. She is has been doing conferences or helping with conferences since she became a midwife. She has been published in Midwifery Today, the Birth Kit, has had photos published. One of her photos won second place in a national contest. She enjoys Vegetable and herbal gardening, painting (artist), crocheting, knitting, sewing, quilting, camping and photography. Ireena has been married for 36 years and they have 5 living children, and 5 grand children. She recently earned her Associates in Midwifery degree and plans to finish her bachelors that she has been working on and then go for her masters.
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| Jill Futch Whitfield ACNM, CNM |
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| Laurie Zoyiopoulos CPM
Laurie was a certified midwife through the Michigan Midwives Association (MMA). She maintained this certification from
1996-2008 until the CM credential was retired by MMA. She then went through the
extensive process of certification through the North American Registry of
Midwives (NARM) in 2008, and became a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) in
November of 2008. She is an apprentice-trained midwife, in private
practice since 1994, and has personally attended over 1000 births. Her apprenticeship spanned 4 and1/2 years, with
Patrice Bobier CPM. Laurie has taught for MMA and CMI in the past.
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| Nan Asher DHHS
Nan has a Masters of Liberal Studies with an
emphasis on Hearing Assistive Technology
and a Bachelors in Health
Administration.
Nan is the current Treasurer for the Michigan
Coalition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People. She is also a five-time Gubernatorial
appointee for the Office of Civil Rights, Advisory Member of Michigan Division
on Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Consumer Representative for ASHA's Council for
Clinical Specialty Recognition Board; Charter member of Hearing Loss
Association of Ann Arbor; Professional member of MI Hands and Voices; HLA-MI,
Hearing Technology Resource Specialist; Adapting to Hearing loss and
Speech-reading teacher.
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