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Board of Directors
Dalia Abrams, MA, MPH

Dalia Abrams MA, MPH, is a DONA Certified Birth Doula and a DONA approved Doula Trainer. She started working with families in 1998 teaching parenting and preparation for childbirth classes. In 2008 she began working as a birth doula and started training new doulas in 2012. In partnership with BirthWell Director Susan Petrus, Dalia helped to found BirthWell Partners in 2011 and acted as program director of BirthWell until summer 2024. In 2006, Dalia received her Master’s in Public Health from UAB School of Public Health, specializing in Maternal and Child Health. From 2006 until 2013 she was the Mental Health Coordinator at UABs Early Head Start Program. Dalia’s passion is to make respectful and safe maternity care widespread in our community.
LaTanya Dawson, MA

LaTanya Dawson is the Health Coordinator with the UAB Early Head Start Program. LaTanya is a graduate of the University of Alabama (B.S. in Human Development) and University of Alabama in Birmingham (B.S. in Social Work and M.A. in Counseling). LaTanya is active within the Pelham City School system where she has been involved with PTO since 2012.
Matt Harris
Matt Harris has a Bachelors in Business Administration from UAH and serves as a Director of Operations for Chick-fil-A in Irondale. His experience as a supporting partner and dad gives him a unique perspective on the need for a doula. When his wife approached him about hiring a doula for her pregnancy and birth, he was very much a skeptic. But after they went through the pregnancy and birth his mind was completely changed on the need for a doula.
Jen Harvard

Jen has held positions in government, private industry, and nonprofits. Her nonprofit experience comes from five years as the Development Officer/Interim Development Director at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, one year in peer to peer fundraising at the National MS Society, and she currently serves the United Healthcare Children's Foundation as Director of Sponsorships and Planned Giving.
Jen brings diverse fundraising experiences to BirthWell Partners, strengthening efforts in individual giving, peer-to-peer fundraising, and corporate sponsorships.
Holly Horan, MA, PhD

Holly Horan, MA, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in UAB's Department of OBGYN's Global and Rural Health Program. She is also a birth and postpartum doula. Holly was previously a program coordinator for a Medicaid-funded, community doula program in Oregon. Her research focuses on the relationship between maternal stress and birth outcomes and the scaling up of collaborative perinatal care with an emphasis on the inclusion and recognition of doulas as members of the perinatal healthcare team.
Anjanette Robinson, LPC-S, NCC

Anjanette Robinson is a Counselor, Birth Doula, and Postpartum Doula. She leads a variety of groups at her business: Building Successful Families, LLC. She is passionate about birth, and especially about supporting families during the 4th trimester: the early months after the baby is born.
Crystal Spivey, MPH, DrPH

Crystal Spivey is an adjunct professor at Alabama State University College of Health Sciences. Previously, she worked for JCCEO Head Start/Early Head Start Program as a Health Coordinator, Health Manager, and Associate Director. Her passion and interest are Maternal and Child Health. She invests her time in community and faith-based organizations whose mission is to provide maternal resources and services to vulnerable populations.
Dr. Beverly VonDer Pool, MD

Dr. Beverly VonDer Pool is a board-certified family physician who received her medical degree from the University of California at San Fransisco and completed a family residency at the University of Washington, Providence Hospital Affiliated Program. Dr. VonDer Pool spent seven years in private practice and as a volunteer instructor for the University of Washington and nineteen years as an associate professor with obstetric privileges at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She currently practices family medicine at UAB-Highlands' Family Medicine Clinic.
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