Meet the Speakers

Franka Cadée PhD, is a proud midwife and international expert in sexual reproductive health and justice. By combining her anthropology midwifery background with having lived and worked across a range of differently resourced countries, she has attained a nuanced,...

Ingrid Bayot is a midwife and trainer with extensive experience in perinatal care. She has worked in various areas, including the delivery room, postpartum and neonatal care, and providing overall support for childbirth and breastfeeding. In 2004, she earned a Diplôme...

After several years at the Lausanne University Hospital (Switzerland) as a perinatal stress researcher and clinician, she now works in two multidisciplinary centres. She offers consultations to expectant and new parents. She also works with various professionals and...

Pam England has a unique talent for inventing thought-provoking methods to guide women during their childbearing years by synthesizing mythology, philosophy, art, archetypal psychology, rituals, and research. Her writing, teaching, and paintings are inspired by her...

As a Filipina~American~Micronesian grandmother midwife I am blessed to kneel at the feet of birthing women, the StarGate between Earth and the Land of Souls.  Every 11 seconds a pregnant woman or newborn dies somewhere on Earth. More than 800 mothers and 7,000 babies...