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Update from Organizational Development

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Monday, November 16, 2020 - 12:00am

Hello midwives and supporters, 

 

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Nominations Open for 2020 Board Elections

Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 2:22pm

Nominations are being accepted for the following positions on the MANA Board. 

All nominees must be current voting members. Click here to read full job description for each open position on the MANA Board page.

Director of Public Affairs
Director of Professional Development

President (must have previous MANA Board experience)

Make your nomination online HERE
 

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Board Election Results: Congratulations and Welcome!

Monday, March 19, 2018 - 12:42pm

The MANA Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Sarita Bennett, DO, CPM was re-elected to the position of Vice President, and Nadia D. English-Williams, ND was elected to the position of Treasurer. Congratulations and welcome!

Our Secretary Judith Levinrad-Norman has had to resign due to family needs. We thank her for all of her good work and wish her well in her current situation and in the future. Nadia has graciously agreed to be appointed to the secretary position until her term begins at the spring board meeting in May.

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Nominations Open for MANA Board

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 9:24pm

Do you have an opinion about the best way to care for people during pregnancy and birth? Does it concern you that one in three US births are by cesarean section? Are you horrified at the knowledge that the US is the only country in the entire world with a rising maternal death rate, and that those statistics are driven by a black maternal death rate quadruple that of white women? Do you have an opinion? Of course you do, you’re a midwife!

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Meet Nicole, MANA Director of Events

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 4:50pm

Hello MANA members and friends,

I am your Director of Events, Nicole Marie White, CPM. I am from Michigan and currently working as a member of the Coalition to License Certified Professional Midwives in Michigan. We just passed the house in December!

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Meet the MANA Board

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Monday, June 1, 2015 - 8:44pm

Colleen Donovan-Batson, Director of Health Policy and Advocacy

Way on way back when, I repaired helicopters for the US Army. It was the 1970s, and next to the hangar I worked in was the Medevac hangar, where the lifesaving Huey helicopters lived. If you're of a certain age, you know what a Huey is, and with them lived the Medevac nurses that made them lifesaving. I'd look at those nurses and think, who would ever want to be a nurse?

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President Marinah Farrell Reports From the Midwives Alliance Spring Board Meeting

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 1:52pm

Spring is the perfect time for renewal and budding ideas. The Midwives Alliance Board of Directors took advantage of this fertile time to hold our annual spring board meeting. Together, we narrowed down our 2015-16 initiatives, including:

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Meet Treesa McLean, Director of Public Affairs

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 9:11pm
Author: 
Treesa McLean, LM

As a part of our Meet the MANA Board series, we've asked Treesa McLean, Director of Public Affairs, to tell us a bit about how she became a midwife and her goals and vision for MANA.

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Director of Organizational Development

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 5:11pm
Author: 
Adrian Feldhusen, NHCM, CPM

I live in southern New Hampshire with my husband of 24 years and my three children, ages 23, 21, and 14. I also have an adopted 23 year old son and daughter-in-law, who currently serve in the Army and live in California. I have developed two free standing birth centers with integrated home birth practices here, the second of which currently serves well over 100 families each year and is growing at an unprecedented rate.

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Meet Amy Smith, Director of Professional Development

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Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 12:46am

I live in Phoenix Arizona where I currently attend homebirths. I have three beautiful boys, one courageous husband, amazing parents and wonderful there "in a pinch" friends that make my work and service as a midwife possible. It is my great honor and privilege to serve families during pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum and like many midwives the calling to serve families has been both joyous and challenging. 

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