Meet The Team
Kenda Sutton-El, Executive Director
Kenda is the Cofounder of Birth In Color RVA and serves as the Executive Director. Kenda holds a Bachelor’s in Health Science and is also a Doula Trainer, Diversity Equity Inclusion Consultant, Policy Analyst, CPR Instructor, Holistic Nutritionist, Lamaze Childbirth Educator, Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, Hypnobirthing Educator.
Kenda serves as the Chair of Virginia Doula Taskforce Chair, Chair of Greater Richmond Regional Maternal Child Health Taskforce, member of the Virginia Maternal and Data outcomes Taskforce, Pregnancy Services for Incarceration Workgroup.
In 2019, Kenda Sutton-EL helped establish “Black Maternal Health Week” and also led the campaign for Doula Medicaid Reimbursement for the state of Virginia. Her passion for reproductive justice has led her to relentlessly pursue methods of improving maternal health for women of color. She firmly believes that until every woman is safe before, during, and after childbirth, we have not done our job as a society.
Birth In Color RVA Birth Worker Collective Members
Ashley Shaw
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Dana Williams
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Car Seat Technician
Nicolette Crowder
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Alexis Perry
Full Spectrum Doula
Car Seat Technician
Placenta Encapsulation
Indee Jordan
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Khalyson Mcduffie
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Car Seat Technician
Amber Heiskill
Birth and Postpartum Doula, BSW
Certified Breastfeeding Specialist
Cheyenne Varner
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Tameka Parker
Birth and Postpartum Doula, RN
Chelsi Watson
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Ebony Allen
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Ashley Gopaul
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Daeryn James
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Kadijah Scott
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Kayla Shelton
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Telisha Woodfin
Postpartum Doula
Latifah Crenshaw
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Shalonda Simmons
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Chantel Edwards
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Brittany Claiborne
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Jada Williams
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Senecea Jefferson
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Alem Zahai
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Victoria Epps
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Maliqua White
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Dominique Young
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Sequoi Phipps- Hawkins
Birth and Postpartum Doula,
Hadiah Rahim
Birth and Postpartum Doula
BIRTH IN COLOR LYNCHBURG
Zel Farrow
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Megan Gomez
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Takeyah Givens
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Nikeya Brown
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Miraj Bryan
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Brittany Slade
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Sequoi Phipps- Hawkins
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Miosha McDaniel
Birth and Postpartum Doula
BIRTH IN COLOR HAMPTON ROADS
Alisa Walker
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Kenda Sutton-EL
Birth and Postpartum Doula, CLC, Nutritionist, Herbalist
BIRTH IN COLOR MARYLAND
Staci Green
Birth and Postpartum Doula
