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About Black Sisters Birth Academy®
Black Sisters Birth Academy® was created for aspiring Black midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants to receive birth assistant training that is for us and by us with intentional space designed for the successful development of our skills and profession in an environment of excellence. The Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Christina Jemine, a Licensed Midwife at Black Sisters Midwifery Services was in search of a training of this nature after she graduated from midwifery school to train her own birth assistant and the options were not there. Christina created the Black Sisters Birth Assistant Workshop in the Summer of 2019 thinking it was a one time event. The sisters she met from that training inspired her to create a place for us to call our own. To meet the calling for more trainings, Christina created Black Sisters Birth Academy®.
Black Sisters Birth Academy® has since successfully trained and certified birth assistants across the nation, from California to Arkansas to work confidently alongside community midwives to 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 midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants through a curriculum-based online program intentionally designed for them. Her program equips 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 to 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 aspiring Black midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants to become certified birth assistants, equipping them to support community midwives with births in out-of-hospital settings.
Vision
To increase the number of professionally trained Black birth assistants nationwide who work with community midwives to promote safer births for Black families outside of the hospital setting.
Our Motto
BIRTH: It's What We DO.
