The Doulas: Radical Care For Pregnant People! Mary Mahoney & Lauren Mitchell

As feminism migrates to the internet, full-spectrum doulas remain focused on life’s physically intimate relationships: between caregivers and patients, parents and pregnancy, individuals and their own bodies. They are committed to supporting a pregnancy no matter the outcome—whether it results in birth, abortion, miscarriage, or adoption—facing the question of choice head-on. New book: "The Doulas: Radical Care For Pregnant People" authors and founders of the Doula Project: Mary Mahoney & Lauren Mitchell are special co-hosts with Denise Bolds, producer and host of Awake in Birth 2017.

Mary Mahoney, LMSW, is a full spectrum doula and Founder and Board Co-Chair of The Doula Project. She has served hundreds of pregnant people across the spectrum of choice and trained activists, doulas, clinicians, and medical students around the country on the abortion doula model of care. Mary is the former Assistant Director of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project, and a graduate of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She is currently a licensed social worker, focused on the intersection of trauma and child development.

Lauren Mitchell, M.S., has been working to change the culture of medicine for the better part of a decade. In addition to being a full-spectrum doula and founder of The Doula Project, she is a certified Gynecological Teaching Associate, teaching medical and nurse practitioner students to be able to perform gentle, patient-centered physical examinations, and a teacher of literature and the humanities in medical school settings.

Denise Bolds, MSW, CD(DONA) is the producer/host of Awake In Birth Series.  Also known as Bold Doula, she lives in NYC. www.BoldDoula.com