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About Black Sisters Birth Academy®
Black Sisters Birth Academy® was founded by Christina Jemine, a Licensed Midwife at Black Sisters Midwifery Services. Christina created Black Sisters Birth Academy® to provide aspiring Black community midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants with a dedicated training space intentionally designed for them to develop their skills and profession.
This initiative was born from Christina's own experience after graduating from midwifery school, when she found no suitable training options for her own birth assistant that was made by us or for us.
To address this need, Christina created the Black Sisters Birth Assistant Workshop in the Summer of 2019, initially thinking it was a one-time event. The souls she met from that training moved her to create a place for us to call our own: A place to call home. In response to the growing demand for more training opportunities, Christina founded Black Sisters Birth Academy®.
Since its conception, Black Sisters Birth Academy® has become the first and only Black-owned and led birth assistant academy in the U.S. We have successfully trained and certified birth assistants across the nation, from California to Arkansas to work confidently alongside community midwives that show and prove that BIRTH: It's What We DO.
Meet Your Instructor
Christina Jemine, LM, CPM
Founder & CEO of Black Sisters Birth Academy® l Birth Assistant Instructor
Christina Jemine is a devoted mother, midwife, motivational speaker, teacher, and accomplished children's book author. Before founding Black Sisters Midwifery Services and becoming a midwife, Christina dedicated over a decade to the field of maternal-child health. This included six years as a Mother-Baby and Pediatric nurse at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, her hometown. Christina loves teaching others about the beauty of birth and gets great joy from sharing her gift of learning with others. She is a graduate from The Florida School of Traditional Midwifery in Gainesville, Florida; a 3-Year Direct Entry Midwifery Program.
As Founder and CEO of Black Sisters Birth Academy®, Christina trains aspiring Black community midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants through her curriculum-based birth assistant programs that are intentionally designed for them. Her programs equip them to support community midwives with births in out-of-hospital settings as certified birth assistants. The academy's creation was stemmed from Christina’s own need to find a birth assistant training that was for us and by us to train her own birth assistant and the options were not there. As Christina puts it, "if you don't see what you want, build it." And that's exactly what she did. Black Sisters Birth Academy® has since successfully trained and certified birth assistants across the nation, from California to Arkansas that show and prove that BIRTH: It's What We DO.
We have the power to embrace who we are,
to choose our future, and change our world.
Mission
To train and certify more Black birth assistants, equipped to support community midwives with births in out-of-hospital settings through our comprehensive curriculum-based programs.
Vision
To increase the number of professionally trained Black birth assistants nationwide who work alongside community midwives to promote safer births for Black families outside of the hospital setting.
Our Motto
BIRTH: It's What We DO.
