Voices of Birthwork Reimagined

Dr. Dympna Weil is a board-certified OB/GYN, Certified Martha Beck Master Coach, speaker, writer, and founder of Prescribing Possibility™. Through her work, she helps caregivers, healthcare professionals, and high-achieving individuals move beyond burnout and overwhelm toward greater harmony, joy, and fulfillment.

Drawing from both professional expertise and personal experience navigating chronic illness, she brings a rare blend of evidence-based insight, practical tools, compassionate storytelling, and a deep understanding of the human side of caregiving.

Nicolle Arthun, CNM, FACNM, is an Indigenous midwife and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Transcending Strategies LLC, an Indigenous women-led strategy and systems transformation firm. Over nearly two decades spanning the clinic, the community, and the policy arena, she has founded and scaled Native-led maternal health systems and advanced culturally grounded, regenerative approaches to care and leadership.

Her work centers healing-informed practice and sustainability without depletion — helping those who hold birth stay rooted, protected, and well across a lifetime of service. She has spent over 20 years working with traditional medicine healers from across the globe; her healing practice is grounded in Diné traditional knowledge, from the Navajo Nation.

Laurie Brutus is a registered nurse and an internationally board-certified lactation consultant. She has an academic background in public health, with a focus on social marketing and behavior change. In her studies, she explored what factors influence different populations to adopt healthy behaviors and abandon negative ones.

After earning her nursing degree in 2016, she worked as a postpartum nurse, discovering her passion for teaching patients how to breastfeed, and later became an IBCLC in 2020. Laurie now serves as the Program Manager of Lactation Services at NYU Langone Tisch Hospital, overseeing clinical operations for the lactation consultant team, and directing initiatives for the hospital's Baby Friendly designation.

Susanrachel Condon is a Master's prepared Certified Midwife who completed her Doctorate in Midwifery in 2019. Her doctoral research centered on obstetric violence, respectful care, and promoting midwives as role models for collaborative decision-making. She has presented the topic of respectful care both regionally and nationally.

Susanrachel is Clinical Assistant Professor and the Interim Program Director at SUNY Downstate, and works in a private practice providing primary care and home-based perinatal services.

Susanrachel engages in innovative research and academia and has been published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health and the International Journal of Midwifery. She is a peer reviewer for various professional journals and has served on several ACNM Committees. Her free time is spent fighting for social justice, knitting, gardening, weight-lifting, and exploring the mountains near home.

Stacy F. Greene, RDN, IBCLC has the honor of working with Dana and shares a vision of what it means to gather together with intention. She began her professional journey in classical music and wove her way into the field of dietetics, landing comfortably in lactation where she has found the perfect mix of art, science and culture. She considers herself a seeker while holding that designation lightly.

A lifelong student, Stacy is an ordained interfaith minister, certified grief educator, certified yoga instructor, with deep interests in Ayurveda, meditation, kirtan, animism, shamanism and mythology.

Stacy's work is fueled by the belief that we are privileged to shepherd families through the birth process, and that doing so within unsupportive systems is also a burden. She is passionate about helping facilitate spaces that provide personal nourishment for birthworkers, allowing them to reconnect with their sense of purpose and experience the reciprocity available through their work.