Board of Directors

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Megan Bunch, BD(DONA), CBE
Secretary
Megan Bunch has been serving expectant parents since 2001 as a birth doula, prenatal yoga instructor and childbirth educator. She enjoys helping families navigate the variety of options available to them as they prepare and experience birth and new parenting. Megan joined the Birth Network Board in 2005 to help connect local families to the numerous resources available to them in and around Santa Cruz County.
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Kim Guiley, CD(DONA)
Board Member
Kim has been a birth doula for many years and is deeply passionate about creating equitable support for birthing people throughout pregnancy, birth & early parenting. She is the Co-Founder of The Circle Family Center in Aptos, a nonprofit which offers classes, support groups, and enrichment activities for families in Santa Cruz County. She's a childbirth educator and mom of two.

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Elizabeth Yznaga, CNM
Elizabeth has been a Certified Nurse Midwife since 1981. She received her nursing and midwifery training at Yale University and was a doula for her OB patients in East Palo Alto after graduation. She came to midwifery with the desire to make the hospital better for mothers and babies. That intense desire helped Elizabeth develop the midwifery service at Kaiser San José 1990. A supporter of hospital Birth, she believes that all mothers should Birth where they want to, with the people they want besides them. More midwives and more Doulas.

Laura Maxson, LM
Executive Director
Laura Maxson has been the director of Birth Network since 1998. She first became an advocate in the early '80s after experiencing a lack of information and choice around birth and breastfeeding. The mother of three grown children, Laura has worked as a breastfeeding counselor, childbirth educator, doula, and homebirth midwife. She has written the "Birth Matters" column in Growing up in Santa Cruz since 2000.
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