Meet the Team
Meet the Staff
Equity Before Birth embraces culturally affirming support models to be truly responsive to our staff and community.
Curator of Culture and Experience
T. Luna
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Favorite Color: Green
Hobbies: Arts and Crafts! Reading, Birth Work Related volunteering/ teaching
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Favorite Quote: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". - African Proverb
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Family Programs Coordinator
Star
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Favorite Color: Yellow but Pink if I'm feeling like a lady
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Hobbies: Sewing, pottery, gardening and thrifting!
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Favorite Quote: "If I lack love, then I am nothing at all" - Lauryn Hill
Social Media Coordinator
Breann
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Favorite Color: Pink
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Hobbies: Singing, binge-watching my favorite tv shows, walking/being in nature/swimming
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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 Manager
Liat
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Favorite Color: Yellow
Hobbies: Reading, baking, nature walks, knitting
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“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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― Lilla Watson
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Executive Director
Joy
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Favorite Color: Purple or orange
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Hobbies: Line dancing, attending live shows,attending festivals, reading
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Favorite Quote: "There will be many people who dont believe in you, don't you dare be one of them"
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
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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
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Hobbies: Cooking, sewing, fussing in the yard (I can’t really call it gardening)
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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?”
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-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
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Hobbies: Painting, walking, listening to music, watching tiktoks
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Favorite Quote: "Due to personal reasons, I will be shining brightly and unapologetically for the foreseeable future"
- Thandiwe Mlauli
Board of Directors
Christopher
Favorite Color: Blue
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Hobbies: Traveling
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Favorite Quote: "Your setback is a set up for your come up"