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Postpartum Nutrition Certificate Program Scholarship Winners Fall 2023

We are SO excited to announce the scholarship winners for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Program’s Fall 2023 cohort!

At Postpartum University®, we serve professionals in over 35 countries around the world. Doulas, midwives, nurses, chiropractors, counselors, lactation providers, educators, doctors, physical therapists…. it takes all of us.

And this program provides the missing foundation necessary to transform postpartum care as we know it.

Within the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Program, we are a group of leaders, supporters, and facilitators who are truly doing the work. Together. As a team. In a community. A collective. A village.

If you want to learn about the physiological and psychological changes that occur after birth and how that changes a mother’s gut, nutritional needs, breast milk, healing….

And you want to be a part of a village that’s making serious changes in not only their businesses but also their personal lives, AND the lives of mothers and babies…

Learn more about the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Program here.

Fall 2023 Postpartum Nutrition Certificate
Scholarship Winners!

Valori Sharp

Valori is a postpartum doula and lactation educator in a designated rural area just outside San Diego California.
Her passion is educating and giving back to underserved communities, by providing specialty services to help close the gaps in care in perinatal health.
She is thrilled to bring an additional layer of services to the community and teach women how to heal themselves postpartum using food as medicine.

Theodora Biney-Amissah

Theodora helps pregnant, birthing, and postpartum women and their families navigate healing and recovery with doula support, community care, and education. She is committed to making resources, maternal and reproductive health information, and quality care more accessible to her community through doula practice and birthwork. She’s thrilled to add this postpartum nutrition certification as essential education to her toolbox of education, care, and support.

Selina Douglas-Ali

Selina is a doula and owner of Seeds of Knowledge. Her goal as a doula is to educate & encourage self-advocacy for anyone who is in need of a doula.

She became a doula to help other persons experience a lifetime of joyful memories surrounding their birth experiences and postpartum journeys.

She is a passionate advocate for women, LGBTQIA, marginalized, and the DDID communities.

JacQue Colson-Smith

JacQue is the Birthkeeper behind Rooted Birthkeeping, offering birth and postpartum support in the Greater Houston areas. She is passionate about empowering birth experiences that’s nothing short of transformative. She brings a holistic touch and a keen focus on education and savvy decision-making.

Ja’Neen Jenkins

Ja’Neen is a licensed Mental Health Therapist, specializing in Maternal Mental Health, turned Doula. She uses a holistic approach, knowing there are often other factors that affect a postpartum mother. She has dedicated many years and time to education in preventative measures to decrease PMADS and psychological birth trauma but feels her work wasn’t complete without understanding nutrition.

Dawn Oliver

Dawn Oliver CDI(TDMA), founder of Compassionate Care Doula Services is committed to telling women the truth about childbirth, their bodies, and their options. She goes above and beyond to make sure women are heard, cared for, and reassured and that their thoughts and feelings matter. By providing factual information and creative problem-solving, she equips parents for a confident birthing and parenting journey.