Shayla Brown

Shayla is a Shafia Monroe (formerly ICTC) certified doula trained in Opelousas, Louisiana by Nicole Deggins of Sista Midwife Productions. Shayla has also trained as a Health Connect One Community Doula through the Tanner Community Development Corporation in Phoenix Arizona. For 2 years Shayla served women of color as a community doula contracted with Maricopa County’s South Phoenix Healthy Start, and wrote freelance articles centering black health inequities for the Arizona Informant. Shayla has served as a speaker and panelist at Phoenix Metro Area community breastfeeding and birthing events and has organized across the Mississippi Delta as a social worker and as a Mississippi Delta Service Corps/AmeriCorps VISTA Member. In addition, Shayla led other VISTA members as an AmeriCorps VISTA Leader for the City of Memphis.