We are so happy to are entering our third year supporting Black and Brown birth workers, including Black student midwives. We are especially excited to introduce you to our two newest awardees. Here they are:
LaTasha Brockington
LaTasha is a third year student at Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery. She has had an interest in birth for as long as she can remember and even wanted to be a Ob/Gyn when she graduated high school. While her life took her down another path at that time, she circled back to working with pregnant and postpartum people as a yoga teacher. This led to LaTasha becoming a doula and then pursuing her passion in midwifery, realizing this is where she wanted to be all along. She looks forward to servicing families in Northern VA, DC, and MD as a Certified Professional Midwife. LaTasha is immensely grateful to Supporting Sunrise for its generous contributions to the futures of student midwives and birth workers of color!
Kymberly Sharpe
Kymberly is an alumnus of Howard University's College of Nursing Class of 2001 and a Registered Nurse with almost 22 years of experience with a background that includes birth, fertility, reproductive, and lactation support.
Kymberly is a military wife, proud mom of four, and member of Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Incorporated and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She is certified in Inpatient Obstetrics, Electronic Fetal Monitoring, and Maternal Newborn Nursing as well as an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator.
She’s an active member of the DC and MD Breastfeeding Coalitions and has an interest in developing lactation-specific education curricula in medical, nursing, and allied health programs within Historically Black Colleges and Universities. As a student nurse midwife at Frontier Nursing University, Kymberly hopes to use her future role as a midwife to help increase access to quality reproductive care in the District of Columbia and Prince George’s County, Maryland specifically for those in the Black community by establishing birth and reproductive care centers that offer services focused on addressing common barriers to care. As a former Labor and Delivery Nurse, she also wants to contribute to bridging the gap between community birth workers and hospital systems to ensure that families and those professionals who support them feel heard and safe.
Kymberly believes that Black midwives and lactation professionals are essential in ALL spaces in which Black women and birthing individuals are seeking care, whether that’s homebirth, birth centers, or hospitals because we offer comfort, safety, and care that is racially and culturally concordant and essential to addressing the maternal health crisis in our communities.
Bebe Williams
Bebe Williams is a proud Brooklyn, New York native, currently residing in and passionately serving families in the DM(V) as a primary student midwife and birth photographer. Her journey began nine years ago after the water birth of her firstborn, attended by a doula who changed the trajectory of her life as a former actress/artist. A year later, she became a doula herself and quickly recognized the need to further safeguard maternal outcomes for BIPOC and other overlooked groups thus answering the calling to become a midwife. In 2020, she embarked on the arduous journey of becoming a midwife. Currently she attends Mercy in Action College of Midwifery to earn her Bachelor of Science in Midwifery and upon obtaining licensure plans to continue serving locally alongside some of the most skilled and compassionate birth workers.
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