"Birth Justice” - Linda Bryant-Daaka
BIRTH JUSTICE is more than a slogan. It’s the motivation and passion for our service to the Black and African birth parents in the Metro Portland area.
Linda Bryant-Daaka has worked in maternal and child health and early childhood and parent education for the past 20 years. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), labor and postpartum doula, and childbirth educator. She currently serves as Senior Doula and Lactation Program Consultant for Black Parent Initiative’s Sacred Roots Doula program here in Portland. She has been featured on radio and print publications discussing doula and lactation support as well as maternal and infant issues through a racial and cultural lens. She has served on the board of the Northwest Mothers Milk Bank and currently facilitates the African American Breastfeeding Coalition of Oregon.
Linda is passionate about every mother/birth parent having loving support, education, and advocacy during the most vulnerable time of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. This includes parenting from conception to knowing your options for making the healthiest informed decisions that impact every aspect of mom’s and baby’s future. For example, Breastfeeding can positively impact baby’s and mom’s health and positively influence the disparate health issues faced by Black communities. “I truly believe this will bring our community back to our traditional Sacred Roots. I believe that we have to learn from the past to solve today’s challenges and create a thriving and equitable tomorrow.”