FOUNDERS & BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Laureli Morrow has been serving women since 1987 when she first began her training as a midwife. With years of experience in both home and hospital based care and owner of a private practice in the US, she also volunteers in developing nations providing midwifery care and training and education to traditional birth attendants, midwifery students and other medical personnel. As a board member of Global Midwife Response, Inc. she helps to oversee programming and education. A staunch advocate for health equity and sexual and reproductive health rights, Laureli has dedicated her life to ensuring that all women receive skilled and respectful care.
Sarah Wallis, MSN CNM WHNP
Vice President, Global Midwife Response
Wellspring Women's Health
Sarah Wallis is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner whose private practice provides holistic gynecology to a diverse community in Central New Jersey. Sarah has worked in women’s health for fifteen years in various roles, with a background in developing health education resources for people around the world without access to medical care.
Vice President, Global Midwife Response
Wellspring Women's Health
Sarah Wallis is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner whose private practice provides holistic gynecology to a diverse community in Central New Jersey. Sarah has worked in women’s health for fifteen years in various roles, with a background in developing health education resources for people around the world without access to medical care.
Nadine Hottat, MSN CNM RN
Founder & Director,
Global Midwife Response
Enlighten Health Care
Nadine Hottat is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and Certified Nurse Midwife. She has a private practice focusing on integrative and mind/body medicine for chronic illness. Her overseas experience includes volunteer care at a field hospital and birthing tent in Port au Prince, Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. She also worked as a nursing instructor in a rural area of Jamaica, West Indies. She currently divides her time between New Hampshire and Jamaica.
Founder & Director,
Global Midwife Response
Enlighten Health Care
Nadine Hottat is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and Certified Nurse Midwife. She has a private practice focusing on integrative and mind/body medicine for chronic illness. Her overseas experience includes volunteer care at a field hospital and birthing tent in Port au Prince, Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. She also worked as a nursing instructor in a rural area of Jamaica, West Indies. She currently divides her time between New Hampshire and Jamaica.
Jeanna Deswert, MA LM CPM
Education Committee & Director,
Global Midwife Response
Jeanna is an author, an international midwife, and advocate for global maternal and reproductive rights. She began her career in midwifery in 2015 and has dedicated a significant amount of time serving in crisis settings. Jeanna has worked as a midwife in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Bangladesh, and many other under resourced areas across the world. She specializes in special circumstance births where she combines her education, expertise, and experience to develop safe and innovative approaches to healthcare in the field. When she is not working internationally, she splits her time between California and Texas, where she works at a high volume birth center on the border of Mexico.
Education Committee & Director,
Global Midwife Response
Jeanna is an author, an international midwife, and advocate for global maternal and reproductive rights. She began her career in midwifery in 2015 and has dedicated a significant amount of time serving in crisis settings. Jeanna has worked as a midwife in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Bangladesh, and many other under resourced areas across the world. She specializes in special circumstance births where she combines her education, expertise, and experience to develop safe and innovative approaches to healthcare in the field. When she is not working internationally, she splits her time between California and Texas, where she works at a high volume birth center on the border of Mexico.
Taya Mohler, CPM LM
Greece/Turkey Contact, Education Committee
Director, Global Midwife Response
Taya Mohler is a Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife and Clinical Herbalist who has been working as a womenʼs health care provider, advocate, and educator since 2009. In January of 2016 she began working internationally as a volunteer Midwife through, then Midwife Pilgrim, providing care for the refugee crisis in Europe, the Middle East and Bangladesh. Her focus and passion in her work with Global Midwife Response is to help women in low resource settings by bringing compassionate and skilled care, resources and education to the most vulnerable in need. Her current projects include a home birth practice located in Northern California, collaborating in the creation of an education program for health care workers who work in situations of crisis and the continued support and care of bringing resource and aid to the developing nations families around the world.
Greece/Turkey Contact, Education Committee
Director, Global Midwife Response
Taya Mohler is a Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife and Clinical Herbalist who has been working as a womenʼs health care provider, advocate, and educator since 2009. In January of 2016 she began working internationally as a volunteer Midwife through, then Midwife Pilgrim, providing care for the refugee crisis in Europe, the Middle East and Bangladesh. Her focus and passion in her work with Global Midwife Response is to help women in low resource settings by bringing compassionate and skilled care, resources and education to the most vulnerable in need. Her current projects include a home birth practice located in Northern California, collaborating in the creation of an education program for health care workers who work in situations of crisis and the continued support and care of bringing resource and aid to the developing nations families around the world.
Cindy Nelly, DNP, CNM, APRN
Lebanon Coordinator,
Education Committee
Director, Global Midwife Response
Cindy Nelly is passionate about public health, humanitarian health, and providing care to vulnerable populations. She is dedicated to promoting collaborative healthcare education and training to healthcare providers worldwide.
Cindy is a Doctor of Nursing Practice and a Certified Nurse-Midwife. She has worked in full-scope women’s health and high-risk obstetrics as an educator, administrator, and in executive management. Cindy has served as Chief Operating Officer and managed large medical teams.
She has been at the frontlines of the COVID response, working in over 15 US states, including service with asylum seekers on the southwest border, New York and in Ghana, where she was the medical lead in setting up a UN COVID-19 medevac hospital.
Her experience includes over two decades as an international coordinator for healthcare projects in several countries, including the DRC, Kenya, Gambia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Colombia. Cindy served as an emergency/trauma obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) medical lead and provider in Mosul, Iraq. Cindy worked as a disaster relief first responder for two decades, including Haiti, Louisiana, and Florida. Domestically, Cindy worked in the Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Florida and in private practice. She was the clinical director of the midwifery team responsible for setting up a free-standing birth center for physician-owned practice.
In addition to Cindy has been in academia. She was preceptor for Yale University and an educator at University of Florida in Morocco and Spain. She taught at the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery. Cindy provides education and training programs in collaboration with National Health Ministries in the Middle East, South America, and Africa. Additionally, Cindy is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honors society.
Lebanon Coordinator,
Education Committee
Director, Global Midwife Response
Cindy Nelly is passionate about public health, humanitarian health, and providing care to vulnerable populations. She is dedicated to promoting collaborative healthcare education and training to healthcare providers worldwide.
Cindy is a Doctor of Nursing Practice and a Certified Nurse-Midwife. She has worked in full-scope women’s health and high-risk obstetrics as an educator, administrator, and in executive management. Cindy has served as Chief Operating Officer and managed large medical teams.
She has been at the frontlines of the COVID response, working in over 15 US states, including service with asylum seekers on the southwest border, New York and in Ghana, where she was the medical lead in setting up a UN COVID-19 medevac hospital.
Her experience includes over two decades as an international coordinator for healthcare projects in several countries, including the DRC, Kenya, Gambia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Colombia. Cindy served as an emergency/trauma obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) medical lead and provider in Mosul, Iraq. Cindy worked as a disaster relief first responder for two decades, including Haiti, Louisiana, and Florida. Domestically, Cindy worked in the Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Florida and in private practice. She was the clinical director of the midwifery team responsible for setting up a free-standing birth center for physician-owned practice.
In addition to Cindy has been in academia. She was preceptor for Yale University and an educator at University of Florida in Morocco and Spain. She taught at the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery. Cindy provides education and training programs in collaboration with National Health Ministries in the Middle East, South America, and Africa. Additionally, Cindy is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honors society.
,Rachael Hubbard, CPM LM, Diploma of Art
Founder & Board Member 2015-17, Midwife Pilgrim
Rachael has years of international experience, having pursued an art degree in New Zealand and spending more than a year studying midwifery in the Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti and Uganda. She is a published author as well as a mason in her family business. In addition to her practice split between her homes in W. Virginia and Vermont, she has found time to continue to share her skills with the women of Haiti and now embark on this passion to serve women globally but especially those in need. She is currently pursuing a degree in nursing.
Founder & Board Member 2015-17, Midwife Pilgrim
Rachael has years of international experience, having pursued an art degree in New Zealand and spending more than a year studying midwifery in the Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti and Uganda. She is a published author as well as a mason in her family business. In addition to her practice split between her homes in W. Virginia and Vermont, she has found time to continue to share her skills with the women of Haiti and now embark on this passion to serve women globally but especially those in need. She is currently pursuing a degree in nursing.
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600 Elm Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
All donations are 100% tax-deductible as provided by law of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
