Stephanie Murillo lives and works in the borderland of El Paso, TX, and Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, where she was born and raised. She is a mother, midwife, student mentor, and reproductive justice advocate. Stephanie's professional collaborations include working within a birth center collective with Luna Tierra Birth Center, serving as a board member for a reproductive health center in the making as a project of Bold Futures. As co-founder of El Nido collective she is working along with community birth workers, in the hopes to offer doula services, postpartum healing foods, ceremonies and more. She is also passionate about supporting policy change that benefits BIPOC women and birthing people and organizing events that support an end to obstetric violence. Stephanie is also committed to reconnecting and providing traditional care practices such as cerrada de caderas and herbal remedies.

Ebony Marcelle is the Director of Midwifery at Community of Hope that includes Family Health and Birth Center. Formerly the Administrative Chief of Midwifery Service at Medstar Washington Hospital Center she completed her nursing education at Georgetown University, Midwifery at Jefferson University and her Doctorate at Frontier University. In 2019 she was inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Nurse Midwives. In 2018, she completed Duke University and Johnson & Johnson Nursing Leadership Fellowship. She adjunct faculty at Georgetown University and has been guest faculty at IHI (Institute of Health Improvement) focused on rebuilding systems to address racism and health equity. Her advocacy work has included multiple congressional briefings creating awareness around the need for policy changes to reduce maternity care disparities. Dr. Marcelle is known for her passion in midwifery and midwifery’s role in reproductive justice. She has built culturally aware clinical models of care specifically for under resourced Black women. She is currently serves on the following boards: National Association for the Advancement of Black Birth, March for Moms, American Association of Birth Centers and is a collaborator with Black Mamas Matter Alliance. In 2019 she was appointed to the District’s Inaugural Maternal Mortality Review Committee and currently in her second term.

She resides here in Washington, DC, with her husband, Step-son, and daughter.

Trinisha became a Fellow in 2017 and completed a degree in Midwifery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2003. She spent the next decade working as a midwife and educator in New York City hospitals, and she founded her home birth midwifery practice, Midwife in the City, in 2014. She currently teaches midwifery students at SUNY Downstate and mentors several aspiring midwives. In June 2019 she became the Director of Midwifery at Brooklyn Midwifery Group until July 2020, where she carried the center through the Coronavirus Pandemic and opened a second location, Jazz Birthing Center of Manhattan. In 2019, Trinisha was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Birth Centers. After leaving the BBC, she created a nonprofit called Midwifery Collective where she is working to form Haven Midwifery Collective, NYC first midwifery-led birthing center, where she is the President and Founder. She has attended over a thousand births in her career both in hospitals, homes, and birth centers. Trinisha is committed to improving maternal health disparity by having birthing centers as a viable option for all low-risk birthing people. Currently, she is a homebirth midwife at Midwife in the City. She is married, an aunt of 12, and a native New Yorker who resides in Brooklyn. She was recently elected President Elect of AABC.