Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings

I am a Radical Doula, Educator, Doula Business Coach and Reproductive Justice Advocate. In 2015, my doula journey began as a volunteer doula with The Prison Birth Project. In my role as a volunteer doula, I assisted incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents, as well as parents in recovery for two years. In these two years, I gained knowledge not only about birth but also about topics such as, obstetric violence and reproductive justice.

I have taken this knowledge and infused it in my practice as a professional doula in Atlanta, Georgia. I love my profession and I love to take care of my clients as if they were my own family, essentially they do become a family member to me! I support all families regardless of race, culture and sexual orientation.

Due to my personal success as a doula, I have been able to educate and improve the birth outcomes of the clients that I serve, while coaching doulas on the best ways to create a sustainable business to serve the families that need us. I am also continuing to bring attention to reproductive health disparities in America by providing amazing and selfless volunteer doulas to under-served families in San Diego through my nonprofit organization, For The Village.

My experience and knowledge inspired me to create Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings with the goals of bringing necessary education to doulas that are seeking to go beyond the  traditional doula role and into advocacy work for the communities that need them. The second goal was to make these trainings accessible by creating an online platform and providing affordable options to participating doulas. In order for change to happen, I realized there would be have to be shifts in educational accessibility for doulas in order to create positive change in their own communities!

Raven E. Freeborn (they/themme), is a savvy queer black woman who holds space as a healing justice and liberation strategist. Raven is a trained and licensed clinical social worker, full spectrum doula, harm reductionist, community educator, storyteller, and a damn good cook. They are the founder of Legacy Healing and Therapy Services, LLC and Third Way Solutions, Inc.; two unique community focused businesses offering strategy, coaching, and therapeutic partnership for individuals, groups, and organizations. Raven’s mission is to build beloved community that reckons with the truth of historical oppressions to actualize equity, justice, and liberative solutions for all people - particularly people who are Black, brown, queer, and trans identifying.

Jenna "JB" Brown (they/he) is a full-spectrum doula and community educator, with a passion for pelvises, humans, trauma-informed care, and restorative justice. As a trans non-binary person, he is practiced in the art (and awkwardness) of transition, and he brings this knowing and compassion to his work as a doula and educator, supporting individuals and families through their own transformations in conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond. As a teacher and the Program Director at Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings (BADT), JB works with students and professionals to be partners and accomplices in the movement to change the current birth environment locally, nationally and globally. In addition to work in the perinatal space, JB does advocacy, education, mentorship, and consulting work around gender, both for trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people, as well as folks looking to include these individuals in their work. http://www.loveoverfearwellness.com