Meet the Team

Meet the Staff

Equity Before Birth embraces culturally affirming support models to be truly responsive to our staff and community.

Executive Director

Joy

Favorite Color: Purple or Orange

Hobbies: Line dancing, attending live shows (concerts, plays, poetry/open mics, etc), attending festivals, reading

Favorite Quote: "There will be many people who don't believe in you, don't you dare be one of them"

Curator of Culture and Experience

T. Luna

Favorite Color: Green

Hobbies: Arts and Crafts! Reading, Birth Work Related volunteering/ teaching

Favorite Quote: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". - African Proverb

Family Programs Coordinator

Star

Favorite Color: Yellow but Pink if I'm feeling like a lady

Hobbies: Sewing, pottery, gardening and thrifting!

Favorite Quote: "If I lack love, then I am nothing at all" - Lauryn Hill

Social Media Coordinator

Breann

Favorite Color: Pink

Hobbies: Singing, binge-watching my favorite tv shows, walking/being in nature/swimming

Favorite Quote: "Comparison is the death of joy, and the only person you need to be better than is the one you were yesterday."

Donor and Volunteer Engagement Coordinator

Liat

Favorite Color: Yellow

Hobbies: Reading, baking, nature walks, knitting

Favorite Quote:

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

― Lilla Watson

Volunteers

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Meet the Board of Directors

The Equity Before Birth Board of Directors are here to enable and support EBB and staff so they can do their life-saving work.

Board Chair

Charity

Favorite Color: Black

Hobbies: Listening (and singing) to 90s and early 2000's R&B; exercising; dancing

Favorite Quote: “If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

—Zora Neale Hurston

Board of Directors

Isabel

Favorite Color: Periwinkle

Hobbies: Cooking, sewing, fussing in the yard (I can’t really call it gardening)

Favorite Quote: “ If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

-Rabbi Hillel in the Pirkei Avot, an ancient Jewish text that has become a clarion call for social activists

Board of Directors

Lasindra

Favorite Color: Blue

Hobbies: Painting, walking, listening to music, watching tiktoks

Favorite Quote: "Due to personal reasons, I will be shining brightly and unapologetically for the foreseeable future"

- Thandiwe Mlauli

Meet the Team

Meet the Staff

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

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Meet the Board of Directors