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Advisory Panel
Polly Perez
Judith Rooks, CNM, MS
Kitty Ernst, CNM, MPH
Bonnie Matheson, BA
Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD
Rae Davies, CBE, CD (DONA)
Connie Livingston, RN

Structural Divisions
Administration
Executive Director- Carolyn Rafferty, RN, BSN
Treasurer- Philip Rafferty, BA
Parent Advocacy Carrie calydu@...
Legislative Awareness Patrice C. Malena, MS, FNP, ICCE
Internet Communities James Ullman, LPN, CBE, Doula
Education (Open Position)
Fund Raising (Open Position)
Marketing Philip Rafferty
Membership Carolyn Rafferty
Regional Focus Committees James Ullman, LPN, CBE, Doula
Practice Assessment Carolyn Rafferty, RN, BSN,
Student Committee (Open Position)

We currently have several OPEN positions as noted above. In addition,
we are seeking a graphic Design Artist to help with our logo. Any
person wishing to help should contact me directly at
<CRafferty@...> We are a small, but growing Professional
Association, we have volunteers in these positions at this time,
there is no paid staff all work comes from the Heart!

We have a Tax Deductible status for our membership fees. In our
members only area we are working on the CIMS Mother Friendly Nurse
Document. This will be an adoption of the CIMS Mother Friendly
Childbirth Initiative Document (you can read it at
http://www.motherfriendly.org). Deb Woolley from CIMS has agreed to
help us out with this project Our eventual goal is to have a standard
that we can use to measure and recognize Nurses in the field who
promote these objectives Our Executive Director is currently enrolled
in a CNM program of study and works as a Nurse at a free standing
Birthing Cente