Lisa Boyd
Board Member

Born and raised in Canada, Lisa obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and Environmental Studies at Trent University. After completing college, she took on the role of Project Forester with the Peace Corps and was assigned to Burkina Faso, West Africa. Her work continued with Plenty Canada (a Canadian NGO) in Lesotho, Southern Africa, as part of an Integrated Rural Development Project.

It was in Lesotho that she began assisting at births with her midwife, during her own pregnancy. That experience, and the birth of her first son at home in the African village of Snoquoquaning, led her to her career in midwifery, supporting women and families.

In the early 1990s, Lisa and her family moved to Seattle, Washington, where she began her studies at the Seattle Midwifery School. While a student, she traveled to India to work in the labor and delivery ward in Bangalore. Upon graduation, she worked as a Doula and Childbirth Educator with pregnant teens for the Snoqualmie Healthy Start Program.

Lisa has been in private midwifery practice since 1997, specializing in out-of-hospital births. She has an intense interest in global sustainable health and has a desire to weave her local and international experience in working with women and their families, honoring birth as a natural life process.

Suze Rutherford, Program Director & Lead Trainer
Margaret Holly Janes, Program Administrator & Conference Coordinator
Tammy Jacobson, Board Member
Phoebe Kitanidis, Board Member