Advisory Board

Lisa Bacus
Lisa Bacus is an accomplished executive, advisor and strategic leader. For over 30 years, Lisa has served in key corporate roles and helped Fortune 500 companies become industry-trend leaders with a keen focus on driving customer centricity and business results. She currently serves on several boards in both the public and private sectors.

Lisa served as Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Cigna, a global health services company, where she was responsible for Cigna's global marketing and communications capabilities including operations, marketing research and insights, customer experience, branding, advertising, media, digital marketing and public relations. She also served as President, and later Chairman, of the Cigna Foundation.

Prior to joining Cigna, Bacus enjoyed a successful 22-year career with the Ford Motor Company, followed by five years at American Family Insurance where she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketer, overseeing all marketing, public relations, communications and actuarial functions.

Bacus has won numerous marketing awards, including multiple Cannes Lion and Effie awards, for innovative and growth-oriented business and marketing efforts. She has also been recognized with numerous leadership and civic awards. In 2019 she was named to the Wall Street Journal Network’s 50 Most Influential CMOs, Top 100 Brand Innovators, Top Women in Marketing and Diversity Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Corporate America. She served as the executive sponsor for Cigna’s Hispanic/Latino Colleague Resource Group, which serves as a way to enhance diversity across multiple stakeholders, including customers, clients and employees.

Bacus earned two bachelor’s degrees from Northern Arizona University and an MBA from Duke University.

She, along with her husband and children, runs the Bacus Family Foundation, which provides scholarships to college-bound Hispanic youth. She is based in her home state of Arizona where she is building an equine therapy business to help children with autism.

Susan Barela, Esq.
Susan serves as an attorney for a civil law firm in New Mexico. Susan began her legal profession as an Assistant District Attorney. After serving in the private sector in commercial litigation firms, she returned to state government working for the Office of the Attorney General as an Assistant Attorney General prior to her current position in the private sector.

While in law school Susan served on the New Mexico Natural Resources Journal and Vice-President of the Student Bar Association. As a 3L, Ms. Barela was recognized by the Mexican American Law Student Association at the 2013 Fighting for Justice Banquet with the Outstanding 3L Award for her significant contribution to the law school and legal community.

Susan is proud to have served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where she was awarded with the Army Commendation Medal and Army Service Ribbon. Susan makes her home in Albuquerque, NM with husband, Marcos, their two children, and their Weimaraner, Gunnar.

Alex Briscoe
Alex was appointed director of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency in 2009 where he led one of the state’s largest public health systems, overseeing health and hospital systems, public health, behavioral health, and environmental health departments with an annual budget of $700 million and 6,200 FTE contracted and civil service staff. Before joining the county, he was the director of the Chappell Hayes Health Center at McClymonds High School in West Oakland, a satellite outpatient center of Children’s Hospital and Research Center. Mr. Briscoe’s work has helped design the nexus of public health and public education. He has designed and administered a number of mental health and physical health programs and services in child serving systems, including home visiting programs, programs for medically fragile children, and clinical and development programs in child welfare, juvenile justice, and early childhood settings. Mr. Briscoe has served on the Alameda County First Five Commission, The Alameda Alliance, and The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and The Uninsured, as well as a number of other public and private boards and commissions. Mr. Briscoe is a mental health practitioner specializing in adolescent services and youth development. He has advised or collaborated with a number of local and national foundations including The Atlantic Philanthropies, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The California Endowment, and most recently with Tipping Point Community. He has specialized in Medicaid policy and administration, emergency medical services, youth voice and crisis counseling, and safety net design and administration.

Shelley Brown, MPH
Shelley is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Boston University, and her research focuses on the key linkages between health, human development and human rights, especially women’s mental health during the perinatal period. She is currently involved in a number of research projects in the United States and South Africa. Shelley’s research is deeply interdisciplinary and engages the larger themes of health equity, global health, health systems and women’s health, utilizing both health systems information and qualitative research to inform proposed changes in policy and clinical practice. Research projects include implementation and promotion of perinatal mental health policies in practice, health system responses to intimate partner violence in South Africa; translation of evidence-based policy into practice in low and middle income countries; unmet mental health and social service needs of formerly incarcerated women living with HIV in the Deep South; and the legal obligation in South African to provide human-rights based mental health services in the perinatal period. She teaches courses in Global Mental Health; Global Health Governance and Non-Communicable Diseases.

Rosanna Durruthy
Head of Global Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn.
Rosanna is considered a thought leader, strategist and business influencer. Her orientation toward diversity and inclusion enables solutions that drive talent engagement, business growth, customer satisfaction, thriving partnerships and empowered communities. 

As the leader of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn, Rosanna is leading a team who focused on creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. 

Rosanna has held several leadership roles prior to joining LinkedIn, including serving as CEO of AEQUUS Group, Rosanna led an organizational consulting practice designed to empower adaptive emerging leaders. Through executive coaching and personal network analysis, I coached women and people of color to achieve new thresholds of leadership and successful career progression within “Fortune 150” companies. Operating from a different philosophy on talent and leadership, Rosanna's practices have been cited in several publications, including the books Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg, Princeton University Press (2010), and Latinos in College (2010) and Poder de Mujer (2012), along with the English translated Find Your Inner Red Shoes (2012) by Mariela Dabbah.

Nakeya T. Fields, LCSW, PPSE, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist
Nakeya is a mental health entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She is an alumna of the University of Southern California where she received a BA in Communication, a Master's in Social Work and a Pupil Personnel Services Credential in School Social Work and Child Welfare & Attendance. Nakeya is also a Registered Play Therapist - Supervisor and a certified field instructor and clinical supervisor. Nakeya is a 200 HR TT Yoga instructor, certificated in trauma informed restorative yoga and is certified in Mini Yogis Yoga for Kids yoga. She is licensed by the Board of Behavioral Sciences as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California. She is also a Community Based Doula/Perinatal Support Specialist that addresses transitional difficulties that come up for new and expecting mothers/families and has launched the MOMMY MATTERS initiative through her organizations that incorporates a mental health professional, resource/case manager and doula throughout pregnancy and postpartum.

She is the owner of Fields Family Counseling Services, which specializes in mental health services that serve the complete family unit. Nakeya is also the Founder, President and Chair of the Board for The Therapeutic Play Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks to build a healthier, more resilient world for those in disadvantaged communities through empowerment, education and play, starting with the Mother. She is also the Director of The Feel Well Empowerment Center which offers wellness resources such as community workshops (chakra healing, acupuncture, parenting, restorative yoga), books, candles, and aromatherapy.

Further, Nakeya acts as a program development and staffing consultant to develop progressive health and wellness programs that incorporate creative modalities within educational, corporate and community driven organizations. She also provides in-service seminars and is available for book signings, expert panels, speaking engagements, and consultation.

Bridget Frese Hutchens, MSN, RN, CNM
Bridget a nurse, a midwife, Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholar and a PhD student at Yale School of Nursing with a focus on maternal mental health. With over twelve years of maternity nursing experience, Bridget has worked in hospitals, birth centers, and as a nurse home visitor supporting young first-time moms. Her current research focuses on women's hospital experiences for birth and postpartum depression. Read her “My Why” story here.

Danielle Friend, RN MSN
Danielle is a registered nurse in the perinatal unit, a recipient of the Ida Cannon Social Service award and a Doctor of Nursing student at California Baptist University, with a focus on maternal mental health. Danielle has over 10 years experiencing working with the perinatal population. Her current research focuses on education of healthcare works and patients on perinatal depression and identification and screening in the hospital and community. Prior to becoming an RN, Danielle worked for five years with the Riverside County Department of Mental Health as a peer specialist in the Wrap Around Program. She gained her experience for this program through life experience with a child with mental illness and depression. Mental health has always been her passion and she brings this passion to perinatal nursing. Danielle is dedicated to ensuring no woman falls through the cracks and suffers alone with perinatal depression.

Maureen Fura, MPA
Maureen has spent the last 10 years building key relationships with policymakers, advocates, leaders, survivors, scientists, researchers, providers, and families to close the gaps in Maternal Mental Health care. She is the Co-Founder of MomsWell, a mobile-web based screening and referral technology that leverages technology to close the biggest gaps in maternal mental health care. Since its release in 2015, her award-winning documentary film ‘Dark Side of the Full Moon’ has been used as a catalyst for change. Maureen was also one of the founding members of the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health (NCMMH) -a project of 2020 Mom. Maureen was awarded their Advocate of the Year in 2017 for her efforts in bringing advocates to Washington D.C from around the country to lobby for policy changes. Through NCMMH, the Moving Out of the Shadows Act and its subsequent funding was realized.Maureen also spearheaded the first national social media awareness campaign for Maternal Mental Health (MMH Week), which takes place the first week of May every year. She led MMH Week for 4 years, reaching over 10 million. She also worked on first World MMH Day with leaders from the UK, Spain, Turkey, South Africa, France, and Canada.She continues to be a Postpartum Support International Coordinator in Miami, Florida where she works to connect local moms to support sources.

Jonathan Goldfinger, MD, MPH, FAAP
Jonathan is a pediatrician and the Chief Medical Officer and VP, Innovation for the Center for Youth Wellness(CYW). Known for transforming pediatric primary care for underserved families, his work includes leading integrated, trauma-informed care models and novel health and wellness innovations and technologies to scale and sustainability.

Dr. Goldfinger’s teams have jumpstarted successful collaborations across many entrenched healthcare and community silos by combining cultural humility and research with clinical innovation, big data, technology, and strategic partnerships. Prior to CYW, Jon served as ZERO TO THREE’s Chief Medical Officer and before that, National Director of HealthySteps(HS). The new HS National Office under Dr. Goldfinger grew HS from 74 practices in 13 states to over 120 practices in 20 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico; began serving our nation’s military families at Department of Defense facilities; developed a successful business case for value-based payment from diverse (Medicaid, commercial, and health system) payers; and secured over $50 million in public and private funding, all in under 2 years.

Dr. Goldfinger’s other notable healthcare innovations include Los Angeles’ only Breastfeeding Medicine Center where women and children receive integrated lactation support, maternal depression screening, and pediatrics primary care regardless of income, and the world’s most comprehensive, free breastfeeding support app, latchME.

Deepika Goyal, PhD, MS, FNP-C
Dr. Goyal is a family nurse practitioner and professor of nursing in the Valley Foundation School of Nursing at San José State University. She oversees the Graduate programs and is the director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program. Dr. Goyal is passionate about maternal mental health, specifically among women of Asian American descent. Dr. Goyal’s research adds to the postpartum mental health narrative regarding Asian American women’s experience, mental health help-seeking behavior, and preferred management of mood and anxiety disorders. Her research findings provide clinicians with the much-needed information they need to provide culturally-informed care in an effort to promote optimal maternal-child well-being outcomes. Dr. Goyal also maintains a clinical faculty practice, working as a nurse practitioner in an outpatient OB/GYN clinic.

Noah Hampton-Asmus
Noah works as a behavioral health legislative policy analyst and advocates for the intended goals of California’s Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) to prioritize client and family stakeholders to drive community services. His mother was a labor and delivery nurse and inspired his desire to advise 2020 Mom to support their maternal mental health advocacy efforts in California. He often says, “We’re all trying to do good work, so let’s do it together.” Mr. Hampton-Asmus is continuing his education at California State University, Sacramento in the Master’s program of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) and will graduate in 2021. With his MPPA degree, Mr. Hampton-Asmus intends to further health policy that promotes physical activity, social connectedness, and economic vitality for all community members to enhance blue zone culture in California.

Leslie Haworth, RN, BSN, PMH-C
Leslie is a passionate newcomer to the field of maternal mental health. She began her career as a High Risk Labor & Delivery RN at Loma Linda University in California before taking time off to be a stay-at-home Mom of two boys. She has had experience in the hospital setting, birth center, and Ob/Gyn office, and loves caring for pregnant people in all ages and stages of their journey. It was only when returning to nursing that she realized how prevalent the silent struggle of anxiety and depression are, not only among new mothers/families, but also nurses and physicians. Now Perinatal Mental Health - Certified, and a member of the Postpartum Support International - Colorado Advisory Board, she continues to study and understand the impact of Developmental and Attachment Trauma, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on perinatal mental health. She is honored and excited to serve with 2020 Mom, and is committed to supporting healthy families by promoting awareness, education and resources for Maternal Mental Health.

Patrick Hendry
Vice President of Peer Advocacy, Supports, and Services at Mental Health America.
Patrick has worked as a mental health advocate for the past twenty-four years. His areas of expertise include peer provided services, self-directed care, recovery based trainings, organizational development, and management and sustainability. Patrick received MHA's highest honor, the Clifford W. Beers Award in 2012, and a SAMHSA Voice Award and Eli Lilly Reintegration Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He is the former Executive Director of the Florida Peer Network and has assisted in the development of numerous peer-run programs and organizations. Patrick is a strong supporter of the inclusion of mental health consumers in all aspects of the behavioral health system.

Hendrée Jones, Ph.D.
Executive Director, UNC Horizons, and Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Chapel Hill, North Carolina; joint appointments – Professor, Department of Psychology UNC-CH and Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Jones is a licensed psychologist and an internationally recognized expert in the development and examination of both behavioral and pharmacologic treatments for pregnant women and their children in risky life situations. In 2021 Expertscape ranked Dr. Jones as the number five expert in the world in opioid-related disorders and number four in the U.S. She is also the number one expert in the world in neonatal abstinence syndrome. She has received continuous National Institutes of Health funding since 1994 and has written more than 200 publications. Dr. Jones has also authored two books, one on treating patients for substance use disorders and the other on comprehensive care for women who are pregnant and have substance use disorders. She also has written multiple textbook chapters on the topic of pregnancy and addiction. Dr. Jones has co-authored multiple national and international guidelines on the topic of caring for pregnant and post-pregnant people with substance use disorders and their children including those published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the American Society for Addiction Medicine. She also co-authored both the women’s and children’s section of the United Nations (UN)’ International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders and the UN guidelines on prevention and treatment for girls and women. While winning multiple awards, most recently in 2020 Dr. Jones won the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) R. Brinkley Smithers and Distinguished Scientist Award. She is a consultant for the UN and the WHO and is a member of the NIH’s HEAL multidisciplinary working group. Dr. Jones leads or is involved in projects around the world focused on improving the lives of children, women, and families.

Sarah Kauffman, MD
Sarah is a board-certified psychiatrist who specializes in reproductive and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Kauffman received her MD at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and then completed her general psychiatry residency training at Columbia University in NYC. She was honored to stay at Columbia to additionally complete fellowships in both Women's Mental Health and Forensic Psychiatry. She is currently working for the State of California in correctional psychiatry as well as running a reproductive psychiatry private practice. In addition to clinically treating women throughout the reproductive lifecycle, Dr. Kauffman is very interested in the intersection of women's mental health and the law in diverse areas such as reproductive decision-making, the challenges of parenting while incarcerated, and infanticide.

Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW
Karen is the Founder and Executive Director of The Postpartum Stress Center, working with women and their families for over 25 years. As a pioneer in the field, Karen has paved the way for women who struggle with postpartum depression and anxiety and the clinicians who provide treatment. She has also authored several groundbreaking books on the subject.

Raul Martinez, Esq
Raul is a Southern California native who serves as a contract patent attorney.  Raul lost his wife Kelly Abraham Martinez to postpartum psychosis in 2010, just 3 months after the birth of their daughter.  He brings the perspective of loss, the hispanic culture, and both an appreciation of out-of-the-box ideas and the need to focus on what will make an impact to the Influencers advisory board.

Kay Matthews
Kay Matthews is a Successful Business Woman, Motivator, Advocate and Mental Health & Wellness Advisor. Kay Matthews lives in Houston Texas and is the Founder of BabyCakes & Brunch and Shades of Blue Project which was started after delivering her daughter stillborn and experiencing maternal mental health issues. She has been a local community advocate in Houston for over 20 years and her organization BabyCakes & Brunch has been recognized by the Mayor and was given their own day in the City. As a very active community advocate Kay feels that helping others to reach their own goals is the best benefit of helping those she encounters. Kay is now actively teaching and speaking to women of all ages to help them better understand how important it is to help themselves before during and after childbirth. Helping them to realize that they are able to continue to live their dreams and still make life great against all odds. To Kay this is the most important aspect of the work she does with in the communities and it's the motivation that she uses to continue to educate communities worldwide.

Monica Mo
Monica Mo is the founder and CEO of WellSeek, an online community platform on a mission to dispel myths and spread truth in the health and wellness world. What began as a passion for health and science led to Monica’s realization that her own behaviors contradicted her knowledge, inspiring the conception of WellSeek as a way to guide others towards discovering their own path to health and happiness. She's the Curating Editor of the WellSeek Collective and the founder of SeekHer Foundation, a non-profit project supporting a woman's rise and resilience in her mental health journey.

Monica was recognized by San Diego Magazine as a Rising Star finalist & Woman of the Year nominee for 2019’s Celebrating Women Awards, and has been featured as a media guest and contributor, including NBC, CBS, ABC, Thrive Global, ESPN Radio, and BuzzFeed. She began her career in biotechnology, specializing in genome-based metabolic engineering and data analytics, and was a member of the academic teams that pioneered the "Google map of human metabolism" that was featured in TIME, CNET and CNN. As a scientist at Intrexon, she led early-stage R&D initiatives focused on metabolic systems engineering, cancer therapeutic design, and biologics production. Monica holds her Ph.D. and M.S. in Bioengineering and B.S. in Bioengineering: Biotechnology from the top-ranking, nationally-recognized program at the University of California, San Diego. Making her home in San Diego, she’s at her happiest when she’s surrounded by her husband and two kids, coffee with great company, and roasted veggies.

Clare Schexnyder
Clare Schexnyder is the founder, CEO and co-owner of Oh Baby! Fitness. The company, founded in 2005, offers the widest variety of pregnancy and mom & baby exercise classes in the USA. They also offer the world's leading pre/postnatal fitness instructor training. Oh Baby! Fitness has trained thousands of instructors in 44 states and 15 countries. Clare was a producer at CNN for 17 years before she came to the fitness industry. She is the proud parent of a teenager and lives in Atlanta with her family. She is certified by AFAA and SCW Fitness in group fitness and is the co-author of Oh Baby! Fitness' own pre/postnatal instructor training.

Petra Steinbüchel, MD
Dr. Petra Steinbüchel is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and clinical professor at UCSF. She is the Director for the UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Portal, a consultative child psychiatry access program designed to further integrate medical and behavioral health care for children.

She has a deep passion for expanding access to care for diverse and vulnerable populations, in particular those exposed to early childhood adversity and chronic and acute medical trauma, as well as individual and systems-level support of provider well-being. She has been dedicated to developing effective, collaborative partnerships between behavioral health and pediatric primary care providers in medical inpatient, outpatient, school-based and integrated care settings.

Dr. Steinbüchel received her BA in English and German from the College of William and Mary. She completed her medical degree and internship in pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia. She completed her psychiatry residency at California Pacific Medical Center, her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is a Harvard Macy Institute Scholar Alumnae.

Shireen Thor
Shireen Thor has had a successful career spanning nearly 15 years as a medical device design engineer and product marketer and Big 3 business consultant solving incentive compensation problems for big brands.  After running $25M plus product P&Ls and working with large companies like Accenture, Össur and CareFusion, Shireen wanted to do more, and have more independence in her professional endeavors.  She is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Maria Shireen® a functional fashion accessories company headquartered in San Diego, CA. Though the company only launched in 2015, they already have distribution in over 45 countries. Her flagship patent protected product has been featured in over 100 fashion and beauty print, online publications, and national broadcast. Since July 2016, Shireen has been awarded 5 utility patents, 8 design patents, 10 trademark registrations and won the Red Herring North America Top 100 and was a Retail Innovation finalist. Shireen combines a positive and thoughtful leadership style to what is becoming a major brand in functional fashion and wants to redefine versatile accessories for every occasion and design solutions for everyday life that complement an individual’s personal style and interest. The brand also has a dedicated celebrity following which includes Gabby Douglas, Candace Cameron, Lauren Makk, Chrissy Teigen, Brandy and many others. In addition, Maria Shireen is actively involved in a number of social good initiatives through its CHARITY TIES™ program which supports non-profits like Bright Pink and the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health (NCMMH).

Shireen grew up in Southern California where she was a competitive cheerleader and even made a cameo in the cheerleading blockbuster Bring It On. A diehard Wolverine, Shireen graduated the University of Michigan where she majored in Industrial and Operations Engineering with a Mathematics minor. Shireen makes her home in San Diego, California with husband Arni and their son, Tristan Alexander.

Brooke E. Tomblin, MPH
Director, Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health and Clinical Performance and Quality at Cigna. Brooke manages Cigna's collaborative strategy to improve the health of our under-represented and under-resourced customers and communities. Her responsibilities include raising awareness, leveraging data science to identify health disparities, and developing leadership and organizational capacity to close gaps in health care and health outcomes. Examples of projects she has led include: an initiative to reduce the gender disparity in cardiovascular disease management; interventions to eliminate disparities in breast and colorectal cancer screening for African-Americans and Hispanics; and the inclusion of a health equity metric in our value-based reimbursement contracts for hospitals. She has recently expanded her role to include leading an enterprise wide strategy to address social determinants of health as a means for driving more equitable care in local communities.

Prior to Cigna, Brooke worked for several commercial health plans that administer Medicaid and Medicare in the area of health education and cultural and linguistic services. She has extensive experience in research, quality management, program design and evaluation.

Ms. Tomblin received her Master in Public Health degree from Boston University, Boston, MA. She lives in Southern California.

Kim Walls, MS
Kim is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience as a founder of socially conscious businesses that advocate for women, health, and the environment. She focuses on birth as a pathway to empower and educate families, and has served on several nonprofit boards. Currently, she is founder and chief collaborator of Best Ever Baby. Kim's work has been featured in publications including WWD, Real Simple, Fit Pregnancy, Huffington Post, and on-air by the CBS Early Show and Good Morning America.

Martine Wilson
Martine has a background in Traditional Midwifery, Women’s Health, Women’s Studies, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her research with McNair Scholars and Pathways Fellowship was centered on Maternal and Infant Health Disparities and creating access to culturally competent healthcare providers and resources.

Martine was born into a family of nurses and healers. She was destined to be a Wholistic healer and Midwife. In 2004, she started her pathway into midwifery and completed her doula training through DONA International in Jerusalem, Israel in 2009. She has served Refugee women, Black women and others with childbirth education, social justice, and community support services.

Martine worked as a Program Coordinator for California Black Women’s Health Project with Sister’s Mentally Mobilized Sister Circle in Sacramento county and surrounding areas.

She is passionate about increasing awareness of physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional health topics. She engages in advocacy and mobilization activities designed to prevent and reduce intergenerational trauma and stigma, isolation, and anxiety. Her advocacy is centered on creating a safe, affirming, and empowering space where Black women can organize and advocate for policies and system changes. She aims to honor, respect, and acknowledge the dignity and wisdom of all women and mothering parents.

Martine served as an intern with the United States Senator of California, Senator Kamala Harris, where she was blessed and honored to participate in the preparation of the Maternal Health Bill and other policies.

She is a graduate of the College of Education with a Masters of Art in Behavioral Science with a focus in Gender Equity at California State University Sacramento. Her future goals are to continue her research in health equity work at Stanford University, develop a maternal health and women’s wellness center and pass on the knowledge to the next generation to preserve the art of Traditional Wholistic Midwifery care.

Amanda Yeaton-Massey, MD, FACOG
Amanda Yeaton-Massey is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist with a passion for perinatal mental health. After her own experience with perinatal depression, Dr. Yeaton-Massey redirected her academic and clinical focus to increasing awareness and improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders in the perinatal period. Dr. Yeaton-Massey received her MD at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), then went on to complete a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology followed by a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Stanford University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and Medical Director of Perinatal Mental Health.

Amanda Yeaton-Massey is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist with a passion for perinatal mental health. After her own experience with perinatal depression, Dr. Yeaton-Massey redirected her academic and clinical focus to increasing awareness and improving diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders in perinatal period. Dr. Yeaton-Massey received her MD at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), then went on to complete a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology followed by a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Stanford University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and Medical Director of Perinatal Mental Health.