Annual Awards Event Past Speakers

2008

Cara Muhlhahn, CNM is the featured midwife in Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein's documentary The Business of Being Born. She is a dynamic, energetic speaker who is passionate about birth! Cara graduated from the Columbia University School of Nursing and SUNY Downstate Health Science Center in Brooklyn's Midwifery Education Program. She received her Certificate of Nurse-Midwifery in 1991. Cara has practiced in the hospital and birth center settings and currently runs Cara Muhlhahn Midwifery. She lives in Manhattan with her son Liam. Visit her website at www.cmmidwifery.com 

2007

Juliana van Olphen Fehr, CNM, PhD, FACNM Juliana is the author of Diary of a Midwife: The Power of Positive Childbearing, and has been a homebirth midwife for 13 years. She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the graduate midwifery program at Shenandoah University and has served on the Board of Nursing, the Governor’s Obstetrical Crisis Task Force, and is one of MOM's (Midwifery Options for Mothers) founding members. Juliana is currently the Director of the state of Virginia pilot project to improve prenatal, obstetric and pediatric care in rural areas of Virginia , and we are thrilled to welcome her to our podium!

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