My name is Liyah. I am a community-based birth worker; birth doula, Certified Lactation Counselor, doula mentor with Ujima Maternity Network, co-founder and secretary of the Doula Alliance of Arkansas, wife, mother, and all around birth and breastfeeding nerd. The U.S. ranks highest of all developed countries in terms of maternal mortality and morbidity with numbers on the rise even though our hospital-based maternity care receives the highest funding of any other country. I reside in Central Arkansas where we are sweeping the bottom in the nation in terms of our maternal health care rates. I am on a mission is to fill the gap between providers and clients by providing evidence based education, options, and resources to families and individuals with the goal in mind to encourage them to empower themselves by playing a more active role in their health and life care and management. We are revolutionizing and we are taking our birth experiences back into our hands! More importantly, I seek to show up as the comfort and support families need me to be in the moments I am needed.