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.
www.balancedbirth.com

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.
www.thecirclefamilycenter.org


Beth Lilienthal, PCD (DONA)
Board Member
Beth has been a postpartum doula for Santa Cruz county babies and their families since 2012. She recently became MediCal certified to provide postpartum care at no cost. Beth works closely with Siena Maternity Home, making sure support continues long after the birth is over. Beth's support covers breastfeeding/bottle feeding counseling, newborn education, meal prep - pretty much whatever it takes to keep the new parent/s off their feet and getting to know their new addition to the family.
www.SantaCruzBabyDoula.com

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.
www.growingupsc.com/birth-matters/

Tina McRorie, MA
Board Member
Tina is a parenting educator with a background in psychology. She is a long-time member of Birth Network, and joined the Board in 2025. Tina has been supporting parents with parenting education since1999, first as a social worker in the foster care system, then as a peer support group leader. In 2013, she trained to teach The Attached at the Heart Parenting Program from Attachment Parenting International/Nurturings. She is now training other providers in that program as well as offering workshops for parents locally and online. Tina also does coaching privately with parents and caregivers and is a volunteer lactation counselor with NMC. As Founder of The Central Coast Parenting Education Network, Tina is bringing a wide variety of perinatal and parenting education providers together for monthly online meetings to promote and normalize parenting education. Tina raised two kids with her husband, Jeff. They are now in their mid-twenties, adulting and making their own unique ways in the world.
www.mcrorieparenting.com/workshops-and-events/


Jenny Putt, PT, OCS, FAFS, CF-L2
Treasurer
Jenny Putt is a local pelvic floor physical therapist, childbirth and sex educator whose passion lies in improving perinatal care for the community and creating collaborative care among providers. She has owned her practice, Jenny Putt Physical Therapy, since 2015. She provides both in-person and virtual support to her patients and she runs perinatal strength classes throughout Santa Cruz. She is also a mom to two so as she says, she "gets it".
jennyputtpt.com/

Journey Revington Talkovic, CNM, WHNP, IBCLC
Board Member
Journey has worked with birthing families since 2002, initially as a Birth & Postpartum Doula, Whole Birth Yoga Instructor and Certified Massage Therapist, before becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women?s Health Nurse Practitioner in 2012. Her passion for empowering and supporting families continues to inform all of her roles in our community; she is currently practicing as a Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), Certified Childbirth and Newborn Care Educator, and facilitator of several perinatal support circles. This is her second term on the Board of Birth Network, as the Meet the Doulas Coordinator.
www.Dancingbirth.com

Elizabeth Yznaga, CNM
Board Member
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 Jos? 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.