Stephanie Ko, CNM

Danielle Wright is a California native and is a Certified Nurse Midwife in the state of New York. She completed her midwifery education at Columbia University where she earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in 2022. She also completed her nursing education at Columbia University where she earned a Master of Science in Nursing in 2020. Prior to pursuing midwifery, Danielle graduated from San Francisco State University in 2016 where she studied Public Health and minored in both Women’s Health and Africana Studies. Following graduation, Danielle became a doula where she served the communities at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. This is where her passion for women’s health and reproductive justice began. This experience coupled with her education solidifies the importance intersectionality has within the healthcare system. Since learning about the disparities affecting the reproductive health of Black women over a decade ago, she gained an early commitment to and passion for reducing the high rates of maternal complications and mortality affecting communities of color. It is her plan to put this passion into practice and contribute as a change agent for improved health outcomes for all communities. Her goal is to provide a safe, inclusive, and empowering birthing space for all birthing people to successfully and confidently become the experts of their health care needs.

Julia Faidleygrew up in Hershey, Pennsylvania, but has called New York City home for thepast 30 years. She was drawn to the idea of birth as a healthy and a normallife transition and decided to pursue becoming a midwife. During those years,she worked as a labor support doula, raised two children, and spent several yearsas a hospice nurse. Julia has also contributed as an auditor, a member of thequality and compliance team, and a clinical educator. She graduated fromFrontier Nursing University's midwifery program in 2017.

She graduated from Columbia University’s Nurse-Midwifery program in 2003 and has spent 11 years caring for underserved communities in Manhattan and NJ. She most recently worked for 7 years in the Metropolitan Hospital Midwifery Service where she provided full-scope care to an amazing community and polished up her Spanish. Prior to becoming a midwife, Shannon studied molecular biology and biochemistry at Wesleyan University while focusing on gender studies.