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  • Shafia Monroe, MPH, DEM, CDT

    Shafia Monroe, MPH, DEM, CDT
    Feb 3 2026
    Shafia Monroe is deeply devoted to reproductive justice as the crux of Human Rights. She is a Master of Public Health, author, traditional midwife, doula trainer, motivational speaker, and a lover of people. Her spiritual calling to midwifery began as a teenager, inspired to reduce the high infant mortality rate in her city. Mama Shafia is a guardian of African American birth traditions and postpartum rituals. With over four decades of experience, she has researched the lives of 20th-century African American midwives and traveled nationally to interview and observe them, learning traditional postpartum practices. Honoring her Alabama roots, she practices the laying on of hands with pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, and families. For over 30 years, Monroe has been an active organizer for reproductive justice. In 2011, she led the Oregon Coalition to Improve Birth Outcomes (OCIBO) in a study investigating the use of doulas to enhance birth outcomes. This initiative led to the creation of legislative concept HB3311, making Oregon the first state in the nation to reimburse doulas’ services through Medicaid. Shafia Monroe continues to shape a world where equitable healthcare enhances maternal and infant health, and birth workers become pillars in their communities. She is the CEO and founder of SMC Full Circle Doula Birth Companion Training, LLC (SMC Doulas), which created the first led Black doula curriculum in 2002. She has trained over 5,000 doulas and mentors hundreds of individuals to embrace their roles as healers, midwives, doulas, and leaders. Her contributions are highlighted in the books “Granny Midwives and Black Woman Authors” and “Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness.” In 2016, Madame Noir recognized her as the “Queen Mother of a Midwife Movement” for her pioneering work in the 1970s, which introduced midwifery and home birth services to Boston’s Black community in Massachusetts. In 2022, Scientific Americanfeatured her as one of four individuals nationally recognized for “People Who Are Making Health Care Fairer.” Monroe has received numerous awards for her work, including five Lifetime Achievement Awards. She is a board member of the National Black Midwives Alliance, the Oregon Doula Association, the Oregon Community Doula Association, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, and the National Muslim Business Coalition. She served for eight years at the Oregon Health Authority Office of Equity and Inclusion: Cultural Competency Continuing Education Advisory Committee. She is a wife, a mother of seven, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking for family and friends, walking, gardening, studying herbal medicine, singing, praying, writing, dancing, fishing, and horseback riding. On January 27, 2026, Monroe launched her book, “Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions, Recipes and Healing,” a heartfelt book for Black mothers, providing guidance for healing after childbirth with time to bond and enjoy their baby. Mothering the Mother is especially vital for Black women who are disproportionately affected by maternal mortality and morbidity. Reclaiming culturally rooted postpartum care is healing and lifesaving. Mama Shafia wants this book to be in every person’s hand who wants to see new mothers nurtured, celebrated, and thriving. Learn more about the book and author at www.shafiamonroe.com Shafia Monroe, MPH, DEM, CDT https://wholemothershow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260202-Whole-Mother-Show-Mothering-the-Mother-Afridan-American-Traditions.mp3
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  • Jackie Griggs, CNM, and Toni Kimpel, CPM, LM, and Diana Nash, CPM, LM

    Jackie Griggs, CNM, and Toni Kimpel, CPM, LM, and Diana Nash, CPM, LM
    Jan 27 2026

    Jackie Griggs, CNM, is a Certified Nurse Midwife who has been practicing in the Houston/Beaumont area for the past 35 years. She is a mom of 5 grown sons, 3 born at home with the help of midwives. – Three grandchildren are the light of her life. She has helped mainly with home and birth center births, but has worked in the hospital some as well. She is the owner of birth center of Beaumont, and also helps with home births in the Houston area. She has been on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Birth Centers, until just recently, and still is a very big advocate for midwifery care at a birth center or home, for the women of this country. She is also focused on training new midwifery students and helping to increase the number of birth centers in Texas and the United States.

    Toni Kimpel, CPM, LM, is the owner, Director and Senior Midwife at Jubilee Birth Center. She earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Mobile, where she achieved a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Business Administration, with a minor in Biology. Her mathematics degree is actually used in midwifery in figuring angles and vectors for getting babies to come out, her business administration has been helpful in running a business, and of course biology is involved in the science of midwifery. She has been a midwife since 1985. She completed the certification process to become a Certified Professional Midwife in 1996. She currently holds a Texas Department of Health Services Midwifery License. She opened Jubilee Birth Center in 2012 in Bryan, Texas. She gave birth to eight children between 1977 and 1998. And adopted a daughter in 2004. So,she raised nine children and now have 21 grandchildren and 6 great grand-children. She delivered five of her grandchildren and 2 of her great-grandchildren.

    Diana Nash, CPM, LM, and her husband, Don have been married almost 25 years. We’re a blended family of 6 grown children – 5 boys and 1 girl – and have 13 grandchildren, ages 16 years to 3 weeks! She was a late bloomer and didn’t start her Midwifery training until 2005 with the Association of Texas Midwives and graduated in 2007. Since then, she has worked in both home and birth center settings in Texas and Arkansas, but returned to the Piney woods of East Texas 5 years ago. She serves a large area surrounding Polk County, much of which is a maternity desert. She is in the process of starting a freestanding birth center in Livingston, TX. She offers twin, breech and VBAC delivery and recently had the joy of attending her 500th birth!

    Jackie Griggs, CNM, and Toni Kimpel, CPM, LM, and Diana Nash, CPM, LM

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  • Jaelin Stickels, DNP, APRN, CNM

    Jaelin Stickels, DNP, APRN, CNM
    Jan 20 2026

    Jaelin Stickels, DNP, APRN, CNM, co-owner, founder of Holistic Heritage Home Birth and cofounder of She is.com, a site for women by women. Also, on the show is her mid-husband who is so supportive for Jaelin and midwifery.

    A certified nurse midwife who is honored to work with families as they experience pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. Jaelin followed her passion into midwifery and has been practicing with women and babies since 2010. She has spent the last 40 blissful years married to her high school sweetheart and “midhusband”. She has three children and one brilliant grandbaby. In addition to her passion for women’s health; she loves quilting & is enamored with her granddaughter. Jaelin is proud to be known as the designated Birth Hog. No one has ever loved birth as much as this girl.

    Jaelin Stickels, DNP, APRN, CNM

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