Cindy Nelly
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Jeanna Deswert
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Taya Mohler
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FOUNDERS & BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Laureli Denique Morrow, MSN CNM Founder & Executive Director, Midwife Pilgrim
North Branch Midwifery & Women's Health
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 care, she also volunteers in developing nations, providing midwifery care and training to traditional birth attendants, midwifery students and other medical personnel. In addition to overseeing Midwife Pilgrim's programming, her personal work includes developing a curriculum to train health care workers in safe maternity practices in the midst of the Ebola crisis, helping with the Nepal earthquake relief, and assisting in the Refugee Situation in Europe.
North Branch Midwifery & Women's Health
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 care, she also volunteers in developing nations, providing midwifery care and training to traditional birth attendants, midwifery students and other medical personnel. In addition to overseeing Midwife Pilgrim's programming, her personal work includes developing a curriculum to train health care workers in safe maternity practices in the midst of the Ebola crisis, helping with the Nepal earthquake relief, and assisting in the Refugee Situation in Europe.
Sarah Wallis, MSN CNM WHNP
Vice President, Midwife Pilgrim
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, Midwife Pilgrim
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.
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Nadine Hottat, RN MSN CNM
Founder & Director, Midwife Pilgrim Vision Hill Midwifery & Women's Health Care A registered nurse with 20+ years of health care experience, Nadine earned a Master's Degree in Nursing in 2012 from Frontier Nursing University, focusing on midwifery and women's health. She currently lives in Jamaica, West Indies where she is a nursing educator. Her experience in disaster relief includes working in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake working in a field hospital and birthing center at a camp for displaced persons in Port au Prince. Nadine has a special interest in the problem of disrespect and abuse in maternity care, and in working to support caregivers and families to experience skilled, compassionate, respectful reproductive health care in settings worldwide. 
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Jeanna Deswert, MA SM
Education Committee & Director,
Midwife Pilgrim
Jeanna began her career in midwifery in 2015. Combining midwifery with her background in foreign politics and her years of experience in international work, she has dedicated her career to global health and advocating for global reproductive rights. Since then she has provided midwifery and reproductive healthcare services in several countries across the Middle East and Eastern Europe focusing on the refugee crisis stemming from Syria. When she is not volunteering overseas she splits her time between California and Texas, where she works in an established midwifery practice that focuses on special circumstance deliveries.
Education Committee & Director,
Midwife Pilgrim
Jeanna began her career in midwifery in 2015. Combining midwifery with her background in foreign politics and her years of experience in international work, she has dedicated her career to global health and advocating for global reproductive rights. Since then she has provided midwifery and reproductive healthcare services in several countries across the Middle East and Eastern Europe focusing on the refugee crisis stemming from Syria. When she is not volunteering overseas she splits her time between California and Texas, where she works in an established midwifery practice that focuses on special circumstance deliveries.
Megan Mays, SM
Iraq/Kurdistan Coordinator & Director, Midwife Pilgrim
Megan Mays is a student midwife with over a decade of experience in international work including literacy and community health education in Albania, humanitarian aid during the refugee crisis in Lesvos Greece, and collaborating with Midwife Pilgrim to bring compassionate midwifery care to refugees and internally displaced people in Iraqi Kurdistan, where she now lives. She will graduate with her degree in Midwifery in 2018, and is grateful for the opportunity to support other midwives as part of Midwife Pilgrim even before she can join them as a provider herself next year. Megan is passionate about inclusive healthcare and practicing cultural humility in the communities she serves.
Iraq/Kurdistan Coordinator & Director, Midwife Pilgrim
Megan Mays is a student midwife with over a decade of experience in international work including literacy and community health education in Albania, humanitarian aid during the refugee crisis in Lesvos Greece, and collaborating with Midwife Pilgrim to bring compassionate midwifery care to refugees and internally displaced people in Iraqi Kurdistan, where she now lives. She will graduate with her degree in Midwifery in 2018, and is grateful for the opportunity to support other midwives as part of Midwife Pilgrim even before she can join them as a provider herself next year. Megan is passionate about inclusive healthcare and practicing cultural humility in the communities she serves.
Taya Mohler, CPM LM
Greece/Turkey Contact, Education Committee
Director, Midwife Pilgrim
Taya Mohler is a Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife and Clinical Herbalist who has been working as a womenʼs health care provider and educator since 2009. In January of 2016 she began working internationally as a volunteer Midwife for Midwife Pilgrim, providing care for the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East. Her focus and passion is to help women in low resource settings by bringing compassionate care, resources and education to the most vulnerable in need. Her current projects include a small home birth practice located in Northern California, continuing to bring care and aid to the Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis, the start up of a contraception distribution and education program for refugee women and collaborating in the creation of an education program for health care workers who work in situations of crisis.
Greece/Turkey Contact, Education Committee
Director, Midwife Pilgrim
Taya Mohler is a Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife and Clinical Herbalist who has been working as a womenʼs health care provider and educator since 2009. In January of 2016 she began working internationally as a volunteer Midwife for Midwife Pilgrim, providing care for the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East. Her focus and passion is to help women in low resource settings by bringing compassionate care, resources and education to the most vulnerable in need. Her current projects include a small home birth practice located in Northern California, continuing to bring care and aid to the Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis, the start up of a contraception distribution and education program for refugee women and collaborating in the creation of an education program for health care workers who work in situations of crisis.
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Cindy Nelly, MSN CNM APRN
Lebanon Coordinator,
Education Committee
Director, Midwife Pilgrim
Cindy Nelly works as a full-scope midwife, a first responder, humanitarian and development practitioner for maternal-child health. Her current projects focus on the refugee crisis in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq. She is interested in bridging humanitarian and developmental programming to promote local care system response. She has worked in Gambia, Kenya, Rwanda, DRC, Morocco and Colombia and Venezuela. When in the US she works as a midwife and reproductive health care educator in schools in the southeastern US.
Cindy Nelly is on the COREGroup Humanitarian-Development Task Force as well as a board member of Safe Passage to Motherhood.
Lebanon Coordinator,
Education Committee
Director, Midwife Pilgrim
Cindy Nelly works as a full-scope midwife, a first responder, humanitarian and development practitioner for maternal-child health. Her current projects focus on the refugee crisis in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq. She is interested in bridging humanitarian and developmental programming to promote local care system response. She has worked in Gambia, Kenya, Rwanda, DRC, Morocco and Colombia and Venezuela. When in the US she works as a midwife and reproductive health care educator in schools in the southeastern US.
Cindy Nelly is on the COREGroup Humanitarian-Development Task Force as well as a board member of Safe Passage to Motherhood.
,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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