Angela (Annie) Hill
Director of Traditional Birth Studies &
Senior Instructor
Mattie Marie Traditional Birth Studies
Board Member Sanctum of the Craft Seminary
Annie is our primary online instructor for our online delivery of courses, and will eventually be handing off hands-on training to other instructors in their states. (Once COVID-19 is no longer a threat and we can offer in-person training again.)
Formerly the Head of the Madriella Advisory board, Annie oversaw the revision of the curriculum for Madriella’s 2017 re-release and was the face of the organization on the student-facing side of the organization for nearly 6 years.
She now brings her skills and love for the community to the Haven Craft board and is continuing to teach internationally.
Annie has been serving families across the United States in multiple capacities for the last 36 years, from end-of-life companion, newborn specialist – twins, nanny, postpartum doula, lactation mentor, birth and bereavement doula, to traditional midwife in rural North East Nevada and Kentucky (via Apprenticeship Model, enrollment in Ancient Arts Midwifery Institute, and self-study.)
Annie has been affiliated with Haven Craft since its early days and has served many members of its community with compassionate and respectful care. She is passionate with regard to bodily autonomy and believes that the person who is pregnant is the only one who can make decisions about their body and level of care. Based in the Greater St. Louis area, she is a member of the Doulas of Greater St. Louis and loves the central US location to travel out of to teach other Doulas.
Board Members (Bio’s and photo’s to come)
Toni Hill
Instructor & Advisory Board Member
Toni Is a direct-entry midwife serving North Mississippi with traditional home birth midwifery. She has been involved with birth work for over 17 years, first supporting families as a doula in both hospital and home birth settings. Like many midwives before her, she has received her formal midwifery training through a variety of means. She has been blessed to learn from the hands and at the feet of many midwives, has completed extensive self-study, completed The Farm Midwifery Assistant training (June 2013), completed The Farm Midwifery Advanced training (August 2013), and an amazing apprenticeship toward CPM credentialing with Full Circle Midwifery in Memphis, TN. She remains current in basic adult and child CPR and NRP (neonatal resuscitation). She has also completed, BEST (birth emergency skills training), and STABLE. She is a CLC (certified lactation counselor) Feb 2016, a current La Leche League leader, and worked previously as a lactation specialist at WIC with the MS Department of Health. She is the Founding Executive Director of Northeast Mississippi Birthing Project and Mississippi Center for Birth and Breastfeeding Equity.
Beverly Young-Reed
Instructor, Social Media, Advisory Board Member
Beverly saw the need of birth support for families she was stationed in Wildflicken Germany, so she started to provide support for high-risk pregnancies as well as postpartum support in 1986. When she came back to Washington State, she became a certified doula. Bev has had multiple trainings and certifications to provide support for families in normal and high-risk pregnancy and birth, postpartum, parenting, pregnancy loss, partner loss, and survivors who give birth. As a postpartum doula, Bev has worked with twins, breastfeeding support, and parenting. Bev certified with Childbirth for Doulas in 1996 and started teaching Childbirth Education classes. Bev was one of the first volunteer doulas for St. Josephs’s Medical Center in Tacoma, WA, and Capital Medical Center in Olympia, WA.
Here is a list of Beverly’s board positions:
- Founding Board member for Bay Area Birth Information (BABI) 2003 – 2005.
- Tacoma Labor Companions 2006-2007
- Operation Special Delivery 2004 – 2015
- Washington State PTA Region Director 2006 – 2008
- Madriella advisory board member 2013 – 2019
In 2008 Bev became an Accredited Triple P practitioner for parenting education. Bev received her Certified Peer Counselor certification in 2017 and has been supporting families in crisis with Wraparound Intensive Services. In 2019 Bev became a Certified Wellness Recovery Action Plan Co-Facilitator. Creator of the Widow/Widower Birth and Postpartum Support program.
Ivy Adams
Instructor & Advisory Board Member
Ivy is native of Las Vegas, Nevada where she has been practicing as a Licensed Massage Therapist for 20 years. Serving women in a holistic capacity has always been a passion of hers. In 2011, Ivy became a birth and postpartum doula after the birth of her second child. Ivy has always believed that birth is a sacred and special moment for a mother, and that became the driving force to serve women during that most precious time.
For over 15 years, Ivy has been teaching at a local massage therapy school and offers private classes for new parents on infant and child massage. Ivy was recently promoted to the school’s Massage Therapy Program Chair. She homeschools her 4 gorgeous children, is a college student finishing a Bachelors’s in Psychology, and raises backyard chickens at her home in Downtown Historic Las Vegas.
Elizabeth Pate
Advisory Board Member
Elizabeth Pate is an editor, ACE-certified personal trainer, and a certified postpartum and birth doula.