

Vicki Elson made the film Laboring Under an Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing. Her next film will be about what really works for labor. She has been a childbirth educator and doula for 28 years and a grandma for eight years. She offers a workshop called “Childbirth Education Essentials” and a low-cost, grassroots, streamlined certification program for childbirth educators. She is a volunteer childbirth educator and doula with PBP. birth-media.com
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Marianne Bullock founded the Prison Birth Project based on her own experience with the criminal justice system. She has been working as a doula for 10 years. She lectures on prison and reproductive justice issues. She is an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College and mother to a spirited young daughter. theprisonbirthproject.org
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