Myla Flores

Myla Flores is on a mission to improve maternal care in NYC. Over the last two decades, she has become heartily and broadly experienced as a full spectrum doula, midwifery birth assistant, childbirth educator, lactation counselor and mentor to many. Myla is now considered a leader and visionary in the birth field, building a suite of community programs where people can access safe, informed reproductive care pre-, during, and post-pregnancy. The Womb Bus, her innovation of a mobile wellness hub, brings essential education, resources, and outreach to blossoming families in a range of NYC communities. Her programs increase public awareness and provide crucial services in preparation for The Birthing Place, a future birth center that will offer midwifery-led, collaborative, and deeply respectful community care. Birth intersects with us all; Myla operates from the belief that improving birth in NYC will have a profound positive impact on the health and wellbeing of all birthing people and our future generations.

Carla M. Williams, MD, FACOG

Dr. Carla is a board-certified OB/GYN and integrative women’s healthcare provider. Passionate about birth equity and eliminating racial disparities in medicine, she strives to provide patient-centered care, combining conventional and functional medicine. Black Latina, born and raised in NY, she attended Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra medical school in Santiago, Dominican Republic, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2011. After completing her residency at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in the Bronx, New York, she practiced out of Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital in Westchester County, New York. Carla is a married mother of three children who has birthed in both the hospital and home setting. She is also a full-spectrum doula.

Claribel Marmol, RN, MPH, CNM

Claribel is an advocate for sexual and reproductive health, justice, and rights worldwide. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in NYC, Claribel earned a Masters in Public Health from Boston University in 2013, and has served the Bronx community as a nurse, health educator, lactation consultant, and doula. Claribel earned her Bachelors in Nursing and a Masters of Science in Midwifery from Emory University. As a bilingual healthcare provider, Claribel is extremely passionate about serving her Bronx community as a midwife, upholding a human rights framework, empowering and centering birthing people and their individual experiences.

Nuranisa Rae, CNM, LM

Nuranisa began her career as a nurse working on a high-risk labor and birth unit in NYC. As her passionate drive for maternal health grew, she became a doula and childbirth educator, then started her journey towards becoming a midwife. She received her Bachelors in Nursing from New York University as well as her Masters in Midwifery. Nuranisa believes the role of a midwife is imperative in sustaining and rebuilding health care systems both locally and abroad. Nuranisa strongly believes in the process of informed decision making, placing the power of choice in the hands of the person receiving care. Helping families welcome new life into the world is a beautiful, rewarding path which she is thankful to be on.