Eboni Williams, She/Hers

Steering Community Member

Eboni is a Muva of 4 beautiful children and 2 beautiful God Children. She is Certified Community Doula and a Certified Birth Doula. She is a state wide community organizer. Eboni is extremely passionate about helping her community change the narrative on birth, breastfeeding, chronic diseases, mental health, and finances. 

Molly Chappell-McPhail

Steering Community Member

Molly Chappell-McPhail is a mother of two boys, BirthMatters Director of Advocacy and Expansion, partner of 25 years to Curt, intuitive doula and trainer, yoga lover, a lifelong learner with learning disabilities, owl lover, auntie to many, birth justice advocate, mindfulness seeker, beginner knitter, fatherless child, daughter to one mom and sister to two.  

Bethany Arrington , She/Hers

Steering Community Member

Bethany is a wife, mother, and nurse midwife. She has dedicated the last 15 years of her life to celebrating and empowering women in the healthcare setting.

As a midwife of color, she works hard to increase awareness of midwifery options locally and provide a level of care, comfort, and attention during pregnancy that leaves all feeling listened to and cared for.

Kelly Bockelmann

Steering Community Member

Kelly is a wife, mother of four, and a registered nurse. With a background in maternal fetal medicine research,  postpartum care, and school nursing, she values an interdisciplinary approach to healthcare. As a member of the quality department for a managed care organization, she is dedicated to improving the access and quality of care for South Carolina residents. She is a strong advocate for cross-collaboration to improve maternal-child health outcomes. 

Regan Brown, She/Hers

Steering Community Member

My name is Regan Brown a busy mother of 5, Labor & Delivery RN, & a DONA trained Doula in Greenville, SC. I believe women are the cornerstone of the family & community, therefore I have dedicated my service & passion to help advocate to improve care provided 

Crystal Davis

Steering Community Member

I am a native of the Lowcountry in SC. I am a certified child birth educator, birth and postpartum doula. I am passionate about doing the work that will help eliminate the inequalities that lead to death among birthing women of color. Through education, support, and advocacy I want to help empower women of color to take charge of their bodies and overall health.

Keoshia Gaines

Steering Community Member

Hello, I’m Keoshia Gaines from Columbia, SC. I am a birth and fertility doula. I currently work in prison doula services. I believe women and families should be able to have access to doula support no matter their ethnicity or financial status. I also want to

help with the high maternal mortality rate in the African American community. Every woman deserves to

have her voice heard.

Ebonie Garnett

Steering Community Member

Ebonie Garnett is a Birth, Postpartum and Community Based Doula in Columbia, SC. She is passionate about spreading awareness of doula support, empowering birthers to make informed decisions, and advocating to see change in health disparities in our state. 

Amber Pendergraph- Leak

Steering Community Member

Amber has been a doula for over eleven years. She is a Spartanburg native and has accomplished many levels of expertise in her field – she is a certified birth doula, a Certified Lactation Counselor, a Medical Assistant, a certified Community Health Worker. Her mission is to uplift her community one birth at a time through advocacy, empowerment and education. She is striving for birth justice and equity to optimize maternal health.  

Keisha Lockhart, She/Hers

Steering Community Member

Keisha is a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife in Abbeville, SC. She also holds certifications in breastfeeding counsel and infant massage instruction. Her practice mission is to promote and sustain the health and wellbeing of children and their families. Keisha’s passion is empowering families through education – with particular interests in newborn and adolescent care, lactation, and the postpartum period. Keisha has served in healthcare for over 20 years. 

Demetria Mosley, She/They

Steering Community Member

Demetria is a Black Queer healer supporting people in the South with believing, loving, and caring for themselves.  

Lakesha Quarles

Steering Community Member 

Lakesha is a Certified Full spectrum Doula, chiildbirth educator, Community Breastfeeding Educator, Midwife assistant, and much more. She’s an advocate for teen pregnancy and helping moms/expectant families with evidence based information to assist with breast feeding, child birth, and more. 

Kristen Shealy

Steering Community Member

Kristen is a South Carolina native and has worked in the Maternal and Child Health field for over 20 years.  She is passionate about using data to drive programmatic and policy decisions that can improve birth outcomes for moms and babies across the state.  Her current role at a state agency is focused on utilizing strong partnerships to transform maternal health through innovation and collaboration.

Rebekah Shilling

Steering Community Member

Rebekah is an Outreach Specialist for Healthy Start, working with high risk prenatal and post-partum women and their families, providing education, support and resource connections for these families throughout Richland and Sumter counties. Rebekah is also working on completing her certification as a Birth and Postpartum Doula.

Megan Simmons

Steering Community Member

Megan Simmons, MPA/JD, formerly served as a Federal Agent and was

tasked with investigating reports of sexual assault for the Naval

Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in the Middle East as well as

the United States. She later married her education to her experience

by contributing to policy and investigations that materially impacts

the lives of women. Ms. Simmons' aforementioned employment in

government, law, and policy was the catalyst for her career in legal

compliance, corporate consulting, and equity advocacy.

Zeporia Tucker, She/Hers

Steering Community Member

Zeporia is a native of South Carolina. She works for a state agency where her focus is on improving maternal and fetal health outcomes in South Carolina. Her experience also includes more than twenty years of working with children in the state foster care system.

Tameca Wilson

Steering Community Member

Tameca Wilson is a director with a national non-profit organization where her role is to lead impact at the local level by engaging and mobilizing community partners and building strong volunteer relationships to focus on eliminating health disparities within maternal and infant health. Her career has always been health care focused, with experiences that include federally qualified health centers, academic medical centers and health care consulting.