Our Presenters Talita Oseguera is a Certified Nurse Midwife. Also a member of the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board. Talita is a Full Spectrum Doula, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor, Placenta Encapsulator, Advocate for Reproductive Justice, and Mother. Talita’s interests include: reproductive justice, honoring and amplifying the voices, experiences, and issues of Black women and individuals across the sexual, reproductive and perinatal continuum, walking alongside birth workers of color who reflect the communities they serve, and improving care for and with Black women and individuals.
Partnering with, Black and Brown women and individuals, from pregnancy through postpartum to understand the impact of stress, anxiety, and racism on preterm birth. In addition, supporting resilience and coping as protective factors. Talita is a former Co-Coordinator of the Family Planning and Reproductive Choices Elective within the OBGYN Department at UCSF, and member of Nurse Students of Color.
Talita is a collective member of Black Women Birthing Justice. And a published co-author of "Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis in California."
Tiana Pyles is a proud mother of four children and has been a community activist for most of her life; even before she knew it. She actively works on bridging the disparities in community development, health care and breastfeeding in Memphis, Tennessee and beyond; by helping to create opportunities to support the much needed work. Tiana continues to be entrenched in this work to honor her ancestral heritage; and in efforts to leave a good example for her legacy to live by and to be proud of. As the Executive Director for the Orange Mound Development Corporation, Tennessee Breastfeeding Coalition, a co-founder of BSTARS (Breastfeeding Sisters That Are Receiving Support), and the current Chair for the United States Breastfeeding
Committee, Ms. Pyles understands that in order to truly help and empower families to be prosperous in their communities, it takes a “circle of support.” This “circle of support” must include family, adequate education and health care, affordable, quality housing options, peer support and good neighbors. Tiana is instrumental in forging networking partnerships at local, state and national levels in order to better serve the community, city and state she is vested in, and loves.
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