Tamara Taitt
Executive Director
Tamara received a BA from Princeton University in Psychology with minors in African-African Studies and Women’s Studies. After graduating from Princeton, Tamara moved to Miami, Florida to pursue her passion for traditional care applications in community health at Miami Dade College’s Midwifery Program. Following completion of her Associates in Midwifery Sciences, Tamara spent five years working in the maternal child health field with a focus on reducing perinatal health disparities, improving black infant health and implementing fetal infant mortality review followed by five years providing home based community mental health services for at-risk families. Tamara earned a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University and completed three years of Phd coursework in Family Therapy with research interests that centered on perinatal mental health and birth trauma before leaving her program to open a pregnancy & parenting resource center and later a birthing center. Tamara has nourished her long-standing professional interest in the sustainability of the midwifery profession by serving on a variety of national boards. She was the Southeast regional representative on the board of the Midwives Alliance of North America for seven years and is a past board member for the Foundation for Advancement of Midwifery. She currently serves as the Board President of the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery. Tamara has spent the last six years working as the Director of Student Life, Equity & Access at the Midwives College of Utah and as Administrator of the birth center she founded, Magnolia Birth House. Tamara shares a home with her partner Michelle, her step-daughter, 9 dogs, 2 cats, approximately 200 houseplants and a 400 volume cookbook collection. When not reading, streaming her favorite British dramas and making savory meals, Tamara spends her time planning road trips in their Blue Bird school bus RV conversion and looking at building specs for a future Wisconsin homestead.
