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ANANDA LOWE

Ananda Lowe has been a leader in the doula movement since 1995. For seven years, she served as Assistant Director of the Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators, which conducts the oldest national birth doula training program. She has worked with prominent doulas and medical professionals as well as hundreds of mothers across North America. Ms. Lowe has been interviewed by major publications including American Baby, Nurse Week, Parenting, Parents, and Shape’s Fit Pregnancy. She lives in the Boston area.

RACHEL ZIMMERMAN

Rachel Zimmerman has been a journalist for two decades, writing for publications including the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Slate. She spent ten years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, most of that time covering health and medicine. The recipient of numerous awards from the Society for Professional Journalists, Ms. Zimmerman was selected as a 2008 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. She is currently the manager of WBUR's health policy blog, commonhealth.wbur.org.  She lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her husband and two daughters, each of whom was born with the help of a doula.