Our team consists of passionate consultants, volunteers, and a board of directors who are intersectional and intergenerational. We work together to promote postpartum justice through:
  • Community engagement (NOURISH!,  NURTURE! HUGS, and traditional Black postpartum recipes project)
  • Policy (advancing Postpartum Justice)
  • Fundraising
  • Media

Our Team

  • Mama Linda Jones

    Co-Founder & Director of Community Collaborations

  • Nina Arrocena

    NOURISH! Program Coordinator

  • Josephine Raine

    HUGS Program Director & Nutrition Co-Chair

  • Tora Spigner

    Treasurer

  • Lori Gourdine

    MPJ Program Assistant

  • Lonni Watkins

    HUGs Facilitator

Our Board of Directors

  • Mama Linda Jones: Birth and Postpartum Doula and Co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice, Inc

  • Marilyn Wong,: MD, MPH: Co-Founder MPJ

  • Tora Spigner, RN: Doula, Labor & Delivery NurseRN 

Community Partners

Local Restaurant Partners

BELoved Birth Black Centering
Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA

OneLove Black Community 
San Francisco, CA

SF General Hospital Black Centering
San Francisco, CA

Roots Community Health Center
Oakland, CA

Mandela Partners
Oakland, CA

Piikup 
Oakland, CA

Food Connect

Oakland, CA

Cafe 15

Oakland