SCBC BIENNIAL Conference 2022
Lactation in South Carolina:
The State of the State
Kimberly Seals Allers
Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, strategist, and advocate for maternal & infant health. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood. She is the founder of Irth, a new "Yelp-like" app for Black and brown parents to address bias and racism in maternity and infant care. Kimberly also created Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that centers positive Black birth stories as a tool in the fight for birth justice and to reverse the narrative of negative statistics that is common in mainstream media coverage of Black maternal health. Learn more at KimberlySealsAllers.com. Follow her @iamKSealsAllers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Featuring keynote speaker
Kimberly Seals Allers
January 28th and 29th
Join us! Come listen to the stories of how our roster of inspiring speakers representing organizations across the state are promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding/chestfeeding. OUT an Abundance of caution given the recent COvid-19 surge in Cases, the conference will be held online-Only.
Friday
Ellen Babb, Ph.D., MPH, RD, LD, CLC, WIC State Breastfeeding Coordinator, Women Infants, Children Program, DHEC.
J. Black-Peacock., BS, IBCLC, LCCE & Sadie Whitehead, The Lotus Alliance: Supporting Lactation in Prison
Tisha Felder, Ph.D., MSW, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina: Mocha Mamas Milk.
Michelle Hendricks, MBA, RD, LD, IBCLC, Clinical Research Specialist, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute
Bailey Moore, BSN, RN, CLC & Dawn Vawter, BSN, RN, CLC, CPST, Nurse-Family Partnership.
Ana-Lopez DeFede, Ph.D., Sarah Garea, DrPH, MEd, MCHES, Zeporia Tucker, Ashley NB Siriann DNP-FNP-BC,, Birth Outcomes Initiative.
Saturday
Kimberly Seals Allers, Award-winning Journalist and Author
Sarah Brunson, BA, BSN, MS, RN, IBCLC, Chair, South Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition
Ashley Lidow, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Woman's Rights Empowerment Network.
Jennifer Mandelbaum, MPH, Ph.D. Student, Public Health, University of South Carolina
Payton Mosher, BS, Healthy Carolina, University of South Carolina
Virtual Conference
$150 member / $200 non-member
8:30 am - 430 pm on Friday, January 28th and Saturday, January 29th
The conference will be recorded for later viewing available until April 30th, 2022
Continuing Education Credit: 12 credits applied for. Choose between Nursing, Dietetic, and IBCLE
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Continuing education credits provided in conjunction with Mid-Carolina AHEC
Thank you to our Generous sponsors!
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Want to Sponsor the event?
Sponsorship Levels
Bronze: $50-499
Silver: $500
Gold: $1000
Sponsor hot lunch $3000
Sponsor cold lunch $2500
Sponsor breakfast $1000.00
Sponsors will receive recognition on our Conference presentations and materials, Social Media, and Website. Exhibition Space on Virtual Platform TBA. Please fill in the form below! Please note, South Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition only accepts donations that are WHO-code compliant.