JIWC Community Spotlights

May 2023: Alicia Roach is a doula and certified lactation educator based in Portland, Oregon. Alicia was formerly incarcerated while pregnant and her firsthand experience inspired her to testify for a bill that established a prison doula program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Listen to or read her interview here!

December 2022: Kaylin Smith and Sadie Whitehead co-direct the Lotus Alliance, a prison doula project that provides support to incarcerated women in the Camille Graham Correctional facility, in Columbia, South Carolina. Listen to or read their interview here!

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