Speakers

Coretta Daniel Founder 2BNurtured Coretta Rae Daniel is a Cleveland, Ohio native where she currently raises two children with her husband, Charles. After battling postpartum depression and anxiety after the birth of her son in 2016, and finding no resources to support women like herself in healing and recovery, she founded 2BNurtured. 2BNurtured is a program whose mission is to raise awareness to maternal mental health and provide holistic support to women in motherhood. As a graduate of Cleveland State University’s School of Social Work, she has served in multiple capacities including maternal health, resource and referral and community corrections. She has been featured on Mom and Mind Podcast, Just One Hot Mom and Elevation Radio in Cleveland, Ohio. Her motto is, life is a beautiful struggle, worth fighting for.



Jennifer King Assistant Director of Training and Community Education Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health Jennifer King, PhD is the Assistant Director of Training and Community Education at the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health. She received both her Bachelor’s (Kent State University) and Master’s (Bowling Green State University) degrees in Nutrition before returning to Kent to earn her PhD in Public Health with an emphasis in Health Policy & Management.







Dr. King has progressively developed her skill to build and maintain relationships to encourage community engagement and connectivity while having designed and facilitated training for public health and community nutrition research. She is continuously strengthening her skills by working on collaborative and multi-disciplinary teams, large-scale project coordination, and evaluation management. All while doing so, she balances her passion for investigating food insecurity among college students with her personal life as a wife and mom to an active "two-nager".







Dr. King is an active member of Case Western Reserve University’s Food Insecurity Task Force and mentor in the Dear Daughter Queens Aligned youth program.



Ann Witt Director of Lactation Services Senders Pediatrics Dr. Ann Witt is a board-certified family physician, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. Dr. Witt founded Breastfeeding Medicine of Northeast Ohio in 2008 to provide specialized breastfeeding medicine support to mothers and infants. She also is director of lactation services at Senders Pediatrics where all breastfeeding families see a lactation consultant at their first pediatric office visit. Dr. Witt has conducted clinical research on pediatric post-partum lactation support, engorgement, therapeutic breast massage, and infectious causes of chronic breast pain.







Marie McCausland Postdoctoral Fellow Case Western Reserve University https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-mccausland-0606b6136/ Marie McCausland, PhD, is a scientist, a mother, and an advocate for women’s reproductive health. McCausland is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CWRU in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology researching HIV, Colon Cancer and Inflammatory Bowel disease. She serves as the co-president of the CWRU PDA and co-chair of the Women’s Initiative Committee. McCausland's passion for maternal health comes from a personal experience with postpartum preeclampsia, after the birth of her firstborn son, which nearly took her life in 2017. McCausland has served as the spokesperson for Merck for Mothers from 2018-2019 and has won both the Mom Congress Advocate of the Year award in 2019 and the Merck for Mothers 2019 Maternal Health Maverick award.

