CARRIAGE HOUSE BIRTH

Lindsey Bliss is a seasoned birth doula, a childbirth educator, co-founder of Carriage House Birth, and the mother of seven. Lindsey is considered to be a multiples expert after giving birth to two consecutive sets of twins. She is the author of The Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth. Lindsey has been practicing since 2009 and has supported first time parents, multiparas, single parents, LGBTQIA+ families, twin births, medicated and non-medicated vaginal births, cesarean births, and VBACs.

Dorcas Davis is a racial justice activist, antiracism strategist, equity designer and facilitator.  The founder of Dorcas Davis Consulting - a diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism-centered consulting firm - Dorcas supports leaders and organizations in implementing sustainable, progressive change. Dorcas’s expertise in facilitating dialogue related to issues of diversity and equity has resulted in her working with people and organizations across the United States and around the globe including in Rwanda, United Arab Emirates, and Chile. She has designed diversity and equity workshops and trainings that serve over 6000 participants annually at universities and across various industries.

Dorcas co-founded the March for Racial Justice as a response to the racial inequity and injustice in the United States’ justice system. Through her activism work, Dorcas collaborates on various racial justice initiatives nationwide.

Morgane Richardson (she/her) is the co-creator of Woven Bodies (www.wovenbodies.com), an inclusive perinatal practice supporting all bodies from fertility and family planning through parenthood. She comes into this space with over 10 years experience as a perinatal health educator, doula and a lifetime as a community + human rights activist.  Prior to creating Woven Bodies, Morgane worked as the Director of the NYC Doula Collective as well as Head of Practitioner Relations at Allbodies, a start-up in the sex and reproductive health space. Morgane holds a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology and Art History from Middlebury College and an M.A. in Gender and Peacebuilding from the UN-Mandated University for Peace. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY but now lives in Kingston, NY with her wife and their three children.