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Annual Awards Event Past Speakers 
2009  Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas Austin and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, is a medical anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of reproduction. An international speaker and researcher, she is author of over 80 articles and of Birth as an American Rite of PassageFrom Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey (1998); and co-editor of eight collections, including Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1997); Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (1998); and Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change (2006). Birth Models That Work, an edited collection that highlights excellent models of birth care around the world, has just come out from the University of California Press. Her research on global trends and transformations in childbirth, obstetrics, and midwifery is ongoing. Robbie speaks regularly at national and international childbirth, obstetrical, and midwifery conferences around the world. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Board of the North American Registry of Midwives, Editor for the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative (IMBCI): 10 Steps to Optimal Maternity Care (www.imbci.org), and Board Member of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization. Visit her website at www.davis-floyd.com 2008
Cara Muhlhahn, CNM is the featured midwife in Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein's documentary The Business of Being Born. She is a dynamic, energetic speaker who is passionate about birth! Cara graduated from the Columbia University School of Nursing and SUNY Downstate Health Science Center in Brooklyn's Midwifery Education Program. She received her Certificate of Nurse-Midwifery in 1991. Cara has practiced in the hospital and birth center settings and currently runs Cara Muhlhahn Midwifery. She lives in Manhattan with her son Liam. Visit her website at www.cmmidwifery.com 2007 Juliana van Olphen Fehr, CNM, PhD, FACNM Juliana is the author of Diary of a Midwife: The Power of Positive Childbearing, and has been a homebirth midwife for 13 years. She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the graduate midwifery program at Shenandoah University and has served on the Board of Nursing, the Governor’s Obstetrical Crisis Task Force, and is one of MOM's (Midwifery Options for Mothers) founding members. Juliana is currently the Director of the state of Virginia pilot project to improve prenatal, obstetric and pediatric care in rural areas of Virginia , and we are thrilled to welcome her to our podium!
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