Victoria Macioce-Stumpf   

          President   

• Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula (CAPPA, DONA) since 1990
•  Certified Childbirth Educator (ICEA) since 1991  
•  BirthNetwork National board member since 2003 (formerly Consumer Advocacy Coordinator and Chapter Coordinator)
•  Secretary of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) Leadership Team since February, 2009
•  Presenter at the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) 2008 Forum in Orlando, FL (“Using the Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care in Your Community" and CIMS 2009 Forum in San Diego, CA ("BirthNetworks: Leading the Way to Mother-Friendly Birth")
•  Published in the ICEA JOURNAL of Childbirth Education: “Do Medical Interventions Impede or Enhance the Labor Process?" (Volume 8, No. 3, August/September 1993) and "Subsequent Pregnancy After Perinatal Loss" (Volume 9, No. 1, February/March 1994)

      Michal Klau-Stevens        

        President-Elect

• B.A. from Skidmore College
• BirthNetwork National board member since 2008 (formerly At-Large Chapter Liaison, Eastern Region)
• Co-Founder and Chapter Leader of BirthNetwork National of Greater Hartford chapter since 2007
• Community Liaison to New Beginnings Family Birth Place at St. Francis Hospital
• GACStats Ambassador for CIMS Grassroots Advocates Committee

       Jessica Kelly-Shaieb       

        Immediate Past-President

•  B.A. Honors Anthropology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan
•   J.D. from Wayne State University
•   Research assistant on reproductive law 2003-2004; clerk for general law practice 1999-2003
•   BirthNetwork National board member since 2003
•   GAC Marketing Ambassador for CIMS Transparency in Maternity Care Project
•   Published in Informant: “Is Circumcision Ethical?” (Volume 7, Number 3, June 2004)

        Sandra Bitonti Stewart  

           Chapter Support Coordinator

•  B.A. from James Madison College of MSU; Certificate in Political Journalism from Georgetown  University
•  Pursuing a Masters in Public Health (Maternal and Child Health) from University of Minnesota
•  17 years of advocacy, nonprofit management and fundraising experience in the fields of health care, women's issues and the environment
•  Bradley Childbirth Educator from 1997-2002
•  BirthNetwork National board member 2000-present
•  Co-Chair CIMS Transparency Project 2006-2008
•  Member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) Leadership Team since March, 2009

• Registered Yoga Teacher E-RYT 500 specializing in prenatal and postnatal yoga
• Owner Mamaste Yoga - Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program
• Retired Le Leche League Leader 
• Certified Doula (DONA & Childbirth International)
• Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
• ICEA Certified Perinatal Fitness Educator
• Certified Childbirth Educator and Breastfeeding Counselor with Childbirth International
• Co-Coordinator, Oklahoma Birth Network
• ICEA Convention Presenter 2009, "Prenatal Yoga"

       Shannon Byrne    

         Membership Team, Technology Coordinator    

• B.A. from Boston College
• M.A. Education from the University of Michigan

• High school teacher (former)
• La Leche League Leader since 2001

• BirthNetwork National board member since 2003
• CIMS GACStats committee member
  
• GAC Ambassador Trainer at 2008 CIMS Forum

•  Developed web-based GAC trainings (2008)

        Elizabeth Day             

         At-Large Chapter Liaison, (South) Central Region 

•  B.A. Brigham Young University
•  Certified Doula (DONA)
•  Lamaze-Certified Childbirth Educator
•  Co-founder and Chapter Leader of the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of BirthNetwork National
•  BirthNetwork National board member since 2008

       Kathryn Konrad

• Bachelors of Science- Nursing, University of Central Oklahoma, 2000
• Registered Nurse, 2000
• RN Certified in Inpatient Obstetrics, National Certification Corporation, 2005
• Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, Lamaze International, 2006
• Masters of Science- Nursing Education, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 2008
• Oklahoma State Candidate Coordinator, Lamaze International
• Chapter Leader, Oklahoma Birth Network

      Denise Tourelle

• B.S. Economics from Oklahoma State University, 1991
• B.S. Nursing from Oklahoma City University, 2006
• M.S. in Nursing Education from University of Oklahoma, 2008
• Instructor of Nursing at University of Central Oklahoma
• Registered nurse since 2006
• Lamaze certified childbirth educator since 2007
• Chapter Leader of Oklahoma Birth Network

  

    Tracia Jaksetic    

     Financial Coordinator  

• B.S. Business Administration and Accounting from Bowling Green State University.
• Former BirthNetwork National Chapter Leader, Toledo (OH)
• BirthNetwork National board member since 2002 handling tax preparation and financial business for BNN.