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Maggie Runyon (she/her),
PhD, RNC-OB, CYT-500
Founding Executive Director
Maggie is a nurse, educator, and writer.
She began her nursing career in 2009 and has since practiced in hospitals and communities nationwide, primarily in labor and birth environments. Maggie maintains a bedside practice at a community hospital in Pennsylvania, in addition to her non-profit work as Founding Executive Director of Your BIRTH Partners.
Maggie recently earned her PhD in Nursing and loves educating, mentoring, and learning alongside other nurses. Her research interests are trauma-informed care, secondary traumatic stress, trauma-responsive work environments, obstetric violence prevention, and nurse identity.
Much of her recent pursuits have focused on authoring a transformational memoir, I Thought I Was Here to Help, and contributing to academic journals.
Her advocacy focuses on improving perinatal care in hospital environments through trauma-informed care, debriefing, emboldening nurses, and community collaboration. When she’s not dreaming up good trouble with other changemakers, she’s doing yoga, reading a book, traveling, indulging in delicious food, soaking in fresh air outside, or hanging with her awesome partner and kids.
Our Team
We partner together with many birth activists and healthcare advocates to make this work possible!
Our Imperative team includes:
Denise Bolds of Bold Doula
Michelle Gabriell-Caldwell of Baby Please Birth Services
Sasha Sumling of Massage Momma
Meredith Strayhorn of The Walking Stick
Pansay Tayo of Sacred Butterfly Births
Our Trauma-Informed Birth Nurse team includes:
Mandy Irby of The Birth Nurse
Paula Rojas Landivar of Nurse Brown Girl
Our Debriefing for Sustainability in Healthcare team includes:
Tara Kosmas Ryan of Debriefing the Front Lines
Our Nursing’s Unconference team includes:
Megan Ludena of Megan Ludena
Paula Rojas Landivar of Nurse Brown Girl
Tara Kosmas Ryan of Debriefing the Front Lines
Mandy Irby of The Birth Nurse
Many thanks to Angela Mike, Meredith Strayhorn, and Jennifer Weaver who served as initial board members to launch Your BIRTH Partners.
To our core podcast crew: Abby Dennis, Angela Mike, Ray Rachlin, & Pansay Tayo, thank you for busting these conversations wide open together. And to all of our podcast guests, so much gratitude for your advocacy and vulnerability in sharing this space together!