January 4, 2021
Tanya Wills
founder
Tanya Wills (MSN, LM, CNM, IBCLC) is Certified Nurse Midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She is the owner of Manhattan Birth in New York City, where she and her team have helped thousands of expectant and new parents with “heartfelt, down-to-earth, no-purple-crystals” classes, support, and midwifery care in the childbearing year. Her techniques produce confident new parents, who birth, feed, and parent their babies with gusto and pride – tackling anything that comes their way.
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January 4, 2021
Guramrit LeBron
Director of Communications, Instructor
Guramrit is a birth and postpartum doula trained through Birthing Gently (DONA) and Certified Lactation Counselor (Healthy Children Project). Guramrit’s professional vocation has spanned across different industries but has always resided with the same common denominator of
amplifying the voices of those in underserved communities, especially in the Greater New York City and New York State areas. After studying Magazine Journalism at Syracuse University, she spent her first few post college years working at various publications including Parenting
Magazine before working in marketing at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She also completed training as a holistic health counselor and transitioned to working at GrowNYC Farmers Markets as a Market Manager all while publishing her first cookbook, Yogi Eats.
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January 6, 2021
Sarah Lovell
Client Care + Program Development Director, Instructor
Sarah Lovell (LM, CNM, WHNP, RN, CLC, Certified Holistic Doula) is a licensed midwife and an experienced former doula who came to this work with a background in holistic health. Having managed natural health clinics since 2005, Sarah passionately believes in the body’s innate abilities and loves empowering others to have the same faith in themselves. Beyond doula training, she has completed additional courses in breastfeeding support, Acupressure for Pregnancy, Labor & Postpartum as well as Childbirth Education.
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January 6, 2021
Jenny Langbehn
Program + Operations Director, Instructor
Jenny Langbehn (CLC, LCCE) is a Certified Advanced Holistic Doula, Lactation Counselor (CLC), Childbirth Educator (Lamaze), Midwifery Assistant (The Farm Midwives in Tennessee), and Certified Prenatal Yoga Instructor. Jenny’s particular passion has been supporting New York City families through a complex- and often overwhelming- hospital system. Currently single-momming her way through nursing school and on track to Midwifery, Jenny is honored to be a part of the Manhattan Birth community.
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January 12, 2022
April Cañete Pavlish
Support + Administrative Assistant
April Cañete Pavlish (she/her) is a trained birth and postpartum doula, a licensed Zumba instructor, and holds a Master’s in Public Health with years of experience in sexual and reproductive health. She was inspired by this work after having a wonderful doula at her own birth.
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