Jill Wodnick MA, LCCE, CLC, IMH-E(III)

Jill Wodnick is doula and childbirth educator. She is national speaker on improving maternal infant health with a focus on reducing racial disparities in birth outcomes. Prior to working doing this lens of reproductive justice work at Montclair State University, Jill led a Community Doula Program in Hudson County. She has been part of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women's Global Prenatal Initiative as well as on local and statewide programs for improving maternity care. Jill is also is a community herbalist and honors the interdepedent web of caring for our earth and caring for families. Jill teaches medical providers at grand rounds, graduate students and professionals, but learns the most from listening to womyn and the sacred ecology of giving birth and being born.