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
Board of Directors
Christopher
Favorite Color: Blue
Hobbies: Traveling
Favorite Quote: "Your setback is a set up for your come up"