1. Tamara Taitt

Executive Director

Tamara earned a BA in Psychology from Princeton University, minoring in African-American and Women’s Studies. She later pursued her passion for community health and midwifery at Miami Dade College. With over a decade in maternal and perinatal health, she has worked to reduce disparities, improve Black infant health, and provide home-based mental health services. She holds a Master’s in Marriage & Family Therapy and completed PhD coursework in perinatal mental health before founding a pregnancy resource center and birth center.

An advocate for midwifery sustainability, Tamara served seven years as Southeast Regional Representative for the Midwives Alliance of North America and on the Foundation for Advancement of Midwifery board. She is currently the Board President of the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery and has spent the last six years as Director of Student Life, Equity & Access at the Midwives College of Utah while managing Magnolia Birth House.

At home, she enjoys life with her partner Michelle, their stepdaughter, nine dogs, two cats, and an impressive collection of 200+ houseplants and 400 cookbooks. Passionate about travel and design, she spends her free time planning road trips in their converted Blue Bird school bus and researching homestead plans for Wisconsin.