Myla Flores

Myla Flores is on a mission to improve maternal care in NYC. Over the last two decades, she has become heartily and broadly experienced as a full spectrum doula, midwifery birth assistant, childbirth educator, lactation counselor and mentor to many. Myla is now considered a leader and visionary in the birth field, building a suite of community programs where people can access safe, informed reproductive care pre-, during, and post-pregnancy. The Womb Bus, her innovation of a mobile wellness hub, brings essential education, resources, and outreach to blossoming families in a range of NYC communities. Her programs increase public awareness and provide crucial services in preparation for The Birthing Place, a future birth center that will offer midwifery-led, collaborative, and deeply respectful community care. Birth intersects with us all; Myla operates from the belief that improving birth in NYC will have a profound positive impact on the health and wellbeing of all birthing people and our future generations.

Carla M. Williams, MD, FACOG

Dr. Carla is a board-certified OB/GYN and integrative women’s healthcare provider. Passionate about birth equity and eliminating racial disparities in medicine, she strives to provide patient-centered care, combining conventional and functional medicine. She is a Black Latina, born and raised in NY. She attended Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra medical school in Santiago, Dominican Republic, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2011. After completing her residency at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in the Bronx, New York, she practiced out of Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital in Westchester County, as well as NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx. Carla is a married mother of four children who has birthed in both the hospital and home setting. She is also a full-spectrum doula.