Your Leadership Circle
Meet the folks who volunteer their time to ensure that CFBN runs smoothly.
Our Team
Sarah Foster | She/They
Co-Chair
Sarah Foster is a BADT trained and experienced Full Spectrum Doula, Childbirth Educator, and Family Wellness Advocate that provides a full spectrum of reproductive support in person and online in Central Florida. She loves a good fish taco, kayaking, and talking about birth for hours!
As our Central Region Contact Sarah is thrilled to create and nurture connections between network and community members seeking to strengthen their personal or professional lives. She believes that strengthening the connections to our personal values empowers families and individuals to be leaders in their overall wellbeing and take control of their lived experiences.
Sarah's journey to educating and advocating began over 20 years ago when she became a young mother and found herself relying on the compassion and understanding of wise women in her neighborhood. She experienced first hand how those with different lived experiences were treated during pregnancy and birth and how it impacted their ability to parent in a way that felt true and authentic for their families.
Sarah's desire to provide support came from a place of needing and receiving consistent, nonjudgmental, nurturing support and truly believing that everyone deserves the same.
Tamara Niedermann | She/Her
Co-Chair, Membership Officer
tamara is a trained doula, herbalist, and body literacy educator, and i provide sexual and reproductive health education, full spectrum doula support, herbal preparation, and placenta processing.
through the kindred feminine she serves folks throughout the entirety of their reproductive years — from menarche to menopause — via evidence based education, unbiased and judgment free support, and intentional community.
she is passionate about building intentional community. whether it be birth and allied health professionals, or through pregnancy, lactation, or moon circles, tamara hopes that everyone will find a circle of understanding and kinship.
Aelis Rivera | She/Her
Secretary & Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Aelis (she/they) is a Queer Bilingual BIPOC Full Spectrum Doula, Certified Perinatal & Childbirth Educator via The Birth Mamas - Doula and Photography Services. She is also the Secretary & Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Central Florida Birth Network.
Come September 2023 Aelis will be a Student Midwife with Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery. Aelis has been a Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and LBGTQIA + Advocate for over 20+ years. As a survivor of all these abuses she found it imperative to support other survivors. Originally from the Bronx, NY she worked very hard to educate and support not only abuse survivors but churches, schools and teens in prevention, safety and signs of these abuses. Going into reproductive care was a natural segway for her as she has been able to use her years of advocacy work and incorporate it with her Full Spectrum work to provide accessible, inclusive and respectful care, education and resources to everyone in all aspects of their reproductive journeys.
Emily Maldonado | She/Her
Clinical Consultant
Emily is the midwife and owner at Moonrise Midwife in Central Florida providing 100% in-home concierge care. She attends births in her client's homes and her practice integrates traditional midwifery wisdom with modern medicine. With a holistic and human approach, she desires to co-create an empowering pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with her clients.
Emily graduated from Florida School of Traditional Midwifery in 2018.
Since then she has served as a licensed midwife in central Florida, having attended more than 300 births.
As CFBN’s Clinical Consultant, Emily provides insight from a midwives perspective when considering activities and direction of the birth network.
Do you want to get involved?
CFBN is still looking to fill some roles in our leadership circle. If you think you might be interested in filling any of the following roles, please consider reaching out to us.
Treasurer
Grant and Fundraising Officer
Events Officer
-Your CFBN Team