Sistah Midwife International (SMI) promulgates midwifery as a solution to better birth outcomes, healthy communities and sustainability; and mentors those aspiring to become midwives, sound parenting and doulas.
Monroe is a Certified Midwife by the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance, a Childbirth Educator, a Doula Trainer, a health activist, organizer, and international speaker. She holds a BA in sociology, with a concentration in medical sociology, from the University of Massachusetts. Monroe's African spiritual and ritual-based practice is chronicled in a photographic essay in the Boston Globe before her move to Portland in the early 1990s. For over twenty years, Shafia has successfully reached out to women from every walk of life and has served as a midwife for thousands. Shafia has conducted countless childbirth classes, breastfeeding promotion classes, parenting classes and worked on legislation with others to help bring the services of midwives to all women.
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Building Capacity through motivational speaking, diversity training and coaching.
SMI builds capacity through motivational speaking, diversity training and coaching.
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