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The Bridge Directory is a resource for families and a community of Black and Brown birth professionals committed to supporting birthing people and their families through the sharing of professional services.

We are deeply honored to be featured in Daily’s Women Who Start Things series! To see our work reflected in this way is...
01/23/2026

We are deeply honored to be featured in Daily’s Women Who Start Things series! To see our work reflected in this way is a powerful affirmation of what community-rooted care makes possible when lived experience, trust, and accountability are centered.

is a tech-enabled maternal health platform that makes grassroots innovation discoverable, measurable, and actionable. We connect families to culturally aligned providers of color while partnering with hospitals, universities, and institutions to translate lived experience into data, accountability, and systems change through research.

, our non profit arm, exists to meet families where systems fall short — providing direct funding and access to essential perinatal and mental health care, including doulas, midwifery, lactation support, and therapy.

We remain committed to revolutionizing the birth experience by building pathways to culturally aligned care and transforming systems from the inside out. Special thanks to Bethany Heitman and Sofia Lodato for this amazing opportunity and recognizing the power of community-led solutions.

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Co-founder Emilie Rodriguez recently served on the review committee for the 2025 Award to Enhance the Perinatal Care Eco...
11/14/2025

Co-founder Emilie Rodriguez recently served on the review committee for the 2025 Award to Enhance the Perinatal Care Ecosystem ($50K) from the Center for the Transition to Parenthood CTtP), a research-to-practice center at Columbia University advancing whole-person, two-generation health.

This year’s 128 applications showcased extraordinary creativity, rigor, and commitment to equity across research and community practice. The projects shared reaffirm the field’s collective energy toward transforming the perinatal care ecosystem.

Congratulations to this year’s awardees:
🩵 Brittany Renee Neal, LCSW, PhD(c) – Pregnancy & Resiliency Early Support Services (PRESS)
💙 Lenore Renee Jarvis, MD, MEd, FAAP – Targeted Support for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

And deep appreciation to all who applied; their work reflects the depth and diversity of innovation shaping family well-being during the transition to parenthood.

Join us at .tech this week!!!! Partnering with the , cofounder Emilie Rodriguez will be sharing all about our tech plat...
10/27/2025

Join us at .tech this week!!!! Partnering with the , cofounder Emilie Rodriguez will be sharing all about our tech platform and how we are creating a higher standard of perinatal health care. 🙌🏽❤️

I am deeply honored to share that I have been selected as a 2025 Ascend Fellow with The Aspen Institute!This 18-month fe...
09/10/2025

I am deeply honored to share that I have been selected as a 2025 Ascend Fellow with The Aspen Institute!

This 18-month fellowship brings together leaders across the nation who are advancing bold solutions to dismantle inequities and strengthen families and communities. To be recognized in this way, alongside such visionary changemakers, is both humbling and energizing.

As a doula, medical anthropologist, and advocate, my life’s work has been rooted in building systems that honor the lived expertise of Black, Brown, and Indigenous families.

Through my work, I’ve seen how community-led solutions can transform perinatal and child health.

This fellowship is an opportunity to deepen that work, scale our impact, and continue building toward a future where families not only survive, but thrive.

I stand here alongside my community, the families I have helped care for, and the colleagues who have pushed me to dream bigger. I am especially grateful to Dr. Catherine Monk for recommending me and uplifting me, Sevonna Brown for staying up late refining my ideas and application, Nkemakọnam Ejoh Carter, MPA. for preparing me for the interview, and of course my cofounder Guramrit LeBron for continuing to dream big to create change. I am made better by you all. Thank you. This recognition belongs to all of us.

What does it mean to build community and commit to accountability principles?
06/06/2025

What does it mean to build community and commit to accountability principles?

We believe in our people and are committed to a shared vision. Tap in. Coalition building is the process of bringing tog...
06/05/2025

We believe in our people and are committed to a shared vision. Tap in.

Coalition building is the process of bringing together individuals, organizations, or groups—often with different backgrounds, perspectives, or areas of expertise—around a shared goal or issue in order to amplify impact, coordinate efforts, and create systemic change.

It involves aligning on core values, establishing trust (or working toward it), and navigating differences to build collective power. Coalition building is not just tactical—it’s transformational.

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06/05/2025

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Since last year, I’ve had the honor of collaborating on an incredibly meaningful project with . A few weeks ago, alongs...
05/04/2025

Since last year, I’ve had the honor of collaborating on an incredibly meaningful project with . A few weeks ago, alongside my brilliant colleagues of and from , we had the privilege of filming the doula perspective, providing context, and highlighting actionable solutions to the systemic inequities that affect Black maternal and infant health. Together, we shared upstream and downstream strategies and resources aimed at creating real change in our communities. More coming soon!!

We were featured in today on the hypocrisy of this administration. Forbes writer writes:Given Musk’s endless warnings ...
04/15/2025

We were featured in today on the hypocrisy of this administration.

Forbes writer writes:

Given Musk’s endless warnings that falling birthrates pose an existential threat to civilization, DOGE’s abrupt gutting of maternal health services is simultaneously ironic, and exactly what you’d expect from an effort whose blunders may well exceed its claimed, but difficult to verify, achievements. A father to an estimated 14 children, Musk has said he thinks “civilization is going to crumble” if women don’t have more babies. He has offered his s***m to acquaintances and blamed birth control for decreasing pregnancy rates. “It should be considered a national emergency to have kids,” he wrote last summer.

“We can’t claim to care about birthrates while defunding the very systems that make pregnancy, birth, and parenting safe,” says Emilie Rodriguez, a medical anthropologist, doula, and co-founder of The Bridge Directory, a group of perinatal maternal healthcare providers.

We are deeply devastated by the illegal cancellation of our funding under the Trump administration, which halts our crit...
03/18/2025

We are deeply devastated by the illegal cancellation of our funding under the Trump administration, which halts our critical work on the NY Community-Hospital-Academic Maternal Health Equity Partnerships (NY-CHAMP) grant. This seven-year NIH-funded project, which was only 1.5 years in, is a partnership between Columbia University, Cornell, NY Presbyterian, and community based organizations. This decision, retaliatory in nature, stems from Columbia’s (previous) support/“allowance” of students and activists protesting and advocating against the genocide in Palestine and its stances in many other intersecting issues that impact marginalized and targeted communities.

The Bridge Directory has been at the forefront of developing a community-centered research, training, and engagement program aimed at addressing severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and mortality (MM). Our work in co-designing scalable, anti-racist, patient empowerment-focused strategies to reduce SMM and MM in NYC and beyond is essential to the fight for maternal health equity.

Our role in this innovative multi-sector partnership model was not just about research; it was about breaking down silos and providing a foundation for sustainable cultural change in maternal health. Through this project, The Bridge was set to develop a curriculum grounded in our model and standards of care, and host both in-person and online training sessions between patients and providers.

This is not just an attack on research—it’s an attack on freedom of speech and the right to protest. The ability to speak out against injustice, to protest against oppression, and to advocate for change is fundamental to a healthy democracy. The Bridge believes in the power of protest to highlight and challenge systems of power and oppression. By punishing those who use their voices for justice, this administration is attempting to silence the very mechanisms of change that are needed to confront the deep-rooted inequities in our society.

This retaliation against those advocating for justice is a direct attack on the communities we serve. But we will not be deterred. The fight for racial and reproductive justice is more critical than ever.

Always an honor to return to my alma mater, and the Event opportunity for alumni and current students of the Colin Pow...
03/15/2025

Always an honor to return to my alma mater, and the

Event opportunity for alumni and current students of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.

Join us on March 20th in celebration of Women’s History Month for an inspiring panel featuring four accomplished Colin Powell School alumni who will share about their career journeys, lessons learned, and insights across mental health, reproductive justice, environmental conservation, and community development.

Featuring:

🌟 Dr. Judith Gil, LCSW-R – Expanding mental health services at Children’s Aid NYC.
🌟 Emilie Rodriguez – Transforming Black maternal health through Ashe Birthing Services and The Bridge Directory.
🌟 Aisha Fuenzalida – Researching conservation and climate justice at Cornell.
🌟 Allison Cooke – Leading community-driven initiatives with Habitat for Humanity.

📅 March 20 | 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM | Zoom
🔗 Save Your Spot: https://bit.ly/4bErdle

Our cofounder Emilie is speaking today at Columbia University with colleagues Sevonna Brown ( ), Victoria St. Clair, and...
02/06/2025

Our cofounder Emilie is speaking today at Columbia University with colleagues Sevonna Brown ( ), Victoria St. Clair, and Madeleine Dorval-Moller on “Lessons in Centering Community as a Form of Research Justice”!

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