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MEAC Board and Staff
| Board Members: |
| Eleanor G. Daniels, CPM (President), Belfast, Maine |
| ellie@meacschools.org |
| Education: 1972-1973 Children's Hospital School of Nursing, Boston, MA. 1978-1982 Midwifery Apprenticeship with Jill Breen, St. Albans, ME. Professional Activities: Practicing Midwife in a private Home Birth Practice, Morningstar Midwifery; Program Committee, MidCoast Chapter of Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility; Founding Board, The Susan Caust Farrell Memorial Library; Midwives of Maine Member; Midwives Alliance of North America Member; Preceptor, Birthwise Midwifery School; Partner, The Green Store, Belfast, Maine. |
| Holly Scholles, LDM, CPM, MA (Vice President) Estacada, Oregon |
| holly@meacschools.org |
| Education: 1991-1998 Doctoral Program, Anthropology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. 1990 Master of Arts in Anthropology (Biocultural), Emory University, Atlanta, GA. 1988 Master of Arts in Anthropology (Cultural), University of Texas at Austin, Texas. Professional Activities: President and Part-time Faculty, Birthingway College of Midwifery; Direct-entry Midwife in private practice; Previous Vice-Chair, Oregon Board of Direct Entry Midwifery; President, Oregon Midwifery Council; Former Educator, Women's Services, Providence Medical Center; Former Executive Director, Association of Texas Midwives; Professional member, Midwives Alliance of North America, International Confederation of Midwives, Oregon Midwifery Council, International Childbirth Education Association, Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, American Anthropology Association, and Society for Medical Anthropology, American Botanical Council. |
| Mary B. Yglesia (Treasurer) Seattle, WA |
| mary@meacschools.org |
| Education: State of Washington, Licensed Midwife 1996. Brevard College, Titusville, FL., Seattle Midwifery School, Seattle, WA, Graduated in 1996 with Certificate of Midwifery. Professional Activities: Executive Director and Midwifery Education Program Director, Seattle Midwifery School. Board Chair of Association of Midwifery Educators, Vice President Board of Directors for Seattle Girls Choir. Former Administrative Coordinator, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Former Clinical Director, Seattle Midwifery School. Former Clinic Manager, Program Coordinator, and Maternity Support Services Provider, Family Health Centers, Okanogan, WA. Former Chair of the Okanogan County Breastfeeding Coalition and Administrator of Breast and Cervical Health Program for Family Health Centers. Former Licensed Midwife. Proud mother of Tyla, Paloma and Celeste and grandmother to Ella. |
| Kristi Ridd-Young, M.S., ICCE (Secretary) Alpine, UT |
| kristi@meacschools.org |
| Education: Bachelor of Science in Public Health Administration, ICCE (International Childbirth Certified Educator) CD(DONA), DONA-approved doula trainer Professional Activities: President, Midwives College of Utah;. Founder of Utah Doula Association; Salt Lake Community College Adjunct Professor; Doula trainer; Birth preparation counselor for survivors of sexual abuse; Conference speaker and facilitator on childbearing issues for several international and local conferences; Committee member for Utah Breastfeeding Coalition workplace task force; Former midwife; Former board member of DONA and ICEA. Former Director of Curriculum Development for The Childbearing Year; Owner of The Nurturing Place—an educational and product resource for childbearing families; Product developer of a natural skin care line; Mother of six children, seven step-children and five grandchildren. |
| Raymond DeVries PhD (Public Member) Ann Arbor, MI |
| ray@meacschools.org |
| Education: Westmont College; University of California, Davis. Professional Activities: Lamaze International, Board member; Birth Works International, Advisory Board member; Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Editorial Board member; International Journal of Childbirth, Editorial Board member; Social Science and Medicine, Editorial Advisory Board member; Sociology of Health and Illness, Editorial Advisory Board member. |
| Heidi Fillmore-Patrick, CPM, NHCM, BS Bridgton, Maine |
| heidi@meacschools.org |
| Education: 1987 Womancare Birth Center, Monett, MO. Internship with Diane Barnes, midwife. 1986 Certificate of Graduation, Midwifery Training Institute, Albuquerque, NM. 1982, BS Architecture, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Professional Activities: Founder, Executive Director, and Faculty member of Birthwise Midwifery School; Practicing Midwife in a private Home Birth Practice, Birthwise Midwifery Service; Community Midwifery Educator; Member of New Hampshire Midwives Association; Member of Midwives Alliance of North America, Member, Midwives of Maine; and Member, National Association of Certified Professional Midwives. |
| Diana Janopaul Tallahassee, FL |
| diana@meacschools.org |
| Education: 1979-1983 Florida State University, Bachelor of Arts, Russian Language and Literature; 1990-1991 Florida State University, Master of Arts, Multilingual/Multicultual Education, Empahsis in English as a Second Language (ESL). 2002-2005, Florida School of Traditional Midwifery, Florida Licensed Midwife since 2006. Professional Activities: Currently practicing midwifery at The Birth Cottage in Tallhassee, Florida. Member, Midwives Alliance of North America. Writing credits include publication in Midwifery Today. Former instructor, Center for Intensive English Studies, Florida State University. Former instructor of ESL, Adult and Community Education, Leon County Schools and Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, Florida. |
| Janneli F. Miller, PhD, CPM, LM Dolores, Colorado |
| janneli@meacschools.org |
| Education: Apprentice, Northwest School of Practical Midwifery, 1977-79; MA in Medical Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, 1992; PhD in Medical Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2003. Professional Activities: Practicing Midwife since 1978 in Oregon, Arizona, Mexico and Colorado; Member, Midwives Alliance of North America; Former Member, Newsletter Editor, Regional representative, and Certification Board Member of the Oregon Midwifery Council; Professor of Anthropology and Women's Health, 2001-2008; Dept. of Medicine and Society at Washington University in St. Louis; Idaho State University, Western State College of Colorado, and Northern Arizona University. Over the years, Miller has made numerous presentations on unassisted birth, cross cultural reproductive health care service delivery, the political economy of maternal child health, and spiritual and herbal healing at birth. She is currently at work on a book on Unassisted Birth among the Rarámuri of Northern Mexico and conducting further research on unassisted birth internationally and in the US. |
| Kathryn Montgomery, PhD (Public Member) Chicago, IL |
| kathryn@meacschools.org |
| Education: Newcomb College, Tulane University; University of California, Berkeley; Emory University. Professional Activities: Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics and of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. As such, she has “experienced accreditation from the other side”, and is both interested and eager to become involved with MEAC. She has extensive Board experience with the Society for Health and Human Values, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the Chicago Health Connection now Health Connect One. |
| Staff Members: |
| Jo Anne Myers-Ciecko, MPH (Executive Director) Mt. Vernon, Washington |
| executivedirector@meacschools.org |
| Education: 1994-1998 Masters Degree in Public Health, University of Washington. 1967-1970 Journalism and American Studies, Honors College, Oregon State University. Professional Activities: Consultant, National Association of Certified Professional Midwives and Midwives Association of Washington State; Former Executive Director, Seattle Midwifery School; Chair, Health Alliance International; Washington Office of Insurance Commissioner, Work Group on Integration of Complementary Medicine; Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, Health Professional Scholarship Committee; UCSF Center for the Health Professions, Task Force on Midwifery. |
| Nasima Pfaffl, MA (Accreditation Coordinator) Melbourne, FL |
| accreditation@meacschools.org |
| Education: 1999-2006 Masters Degree in Applied Sociology, University of Central Florida; 1997-1999 BA in Sociology, University of Central Florida. Professional Activities: Vice President of Citizens for Midwifery; steering committee member of the Midwives and Mothers in Action Campaign; Treasurer, Coalition for Improving Maternity Services; Chair CIMS’ Grassroots Advocates Committee /The Birth Survey Project; founder Brevard Birth Network, Melbourne FL; former Board member BirthNetwork National; and proud mom to Liam. Nasima has extensive administrative and volunteer management experience within the national birth community. |
| Anana Integre, THP, MI (CEU Coordinator) Littleton, CO |
| ceu@meacschools.org |
| Education: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, BA in journalism; THiNK Institute, Certified Medical Intuitive. Professional Activities: Certified ThetaHealing Practitioner and Instructor; Humanity In Unity, Education Chair; H.H. Sai Maa Lakshim Devi Master Teacher; Centers of Spiritual Living, Licensed Practitioner Emeritus; Isagenix Nutritional Cleansing Coach. Anana brings to MEAC more than twenty years of University of California, Santa Cruz executive management experience, as well as a thirty year career in teaching. She is mother to midwife-caught, home-birthed daughter CarrieAnn; and great-granddaughter of the first recorded midwife in Nebraska, Lena Schimmer-Scheel. |
