board members
Martha Todd
Martha’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law with a strong focus in mergers and acquisitions. She has represented U.S. and international buyers and sellers in negotiation, structuring, documentation and consummation of public and private merger and acquisition transactions, including mergers, tender and exchange offers, stock and asset acquisitions, and similar strategic transactions.
She has experience advising a wide range of clients, including emerging companies in the technology and biotechnology fields, venture capital and private equity funds, financial advisors and more. Martha also advises clients on federal securities laws reporting and compliance and corporate governance matters. Martha was previously legal counsel at Skills Fund, LLC, an Austin-based start-up focused on revolutionizing higher education financing.
Keisha Zackery
Greetings, all. I am Keisha Zackery. My husband & I have two amazing children, Mark & Mya.
I am the proud owner of It Takes a Village Family Support Services created out of my passion to provide support (village) to families during monumental times in their lives based on their vision for their families. I am in total awe of the human experience and capabilities of the body, spirit, and mind. I am a DTI doula trainee.
I have completed trainings to assist in providing service surrounding perinatal mood & anxiety disorders. My life’s mission is to serve others.
Mary Harris
Mary Harris is currently a social worker at the UT School of Nursing Child Wellness Center in Del Valle, Texas. Additionally, Mary works as a mitigation specialist to prevent, in the event of a conviction, clients from receiving the death penalty.
Mary has worked in the Central Texas area as a social worker for more than a decade and is committed to working for communities that have been ignored, marginalized and deprived.
Mary comes from a big family, counts her siblings as her closest friends and lives in Austin, TX with her extraordinary partner and two kids, all who are the loves of her life.
Katie Willse
As a consultant, Katie works with nonprofits, philanthropies and education organizations focused on increasing access to high-quality learning experiences and pathways for all kids. She supports her clients with strategic organizational and program design, professional development, and meeting and event planning. Her services build on 15 years of direct experience in the nonprofit field, where she managed integrated youth programs such as mentoring, out-of-school enrichment, youth leadership, and workforce development. Currently an Austin resident, Katie has lived in and worked with amazing youth and community leaders in cities across the country including Baltimore, Boston, Madison (WI), Miami, New York City, and Sacramento. She spends her days trying to keep up with her very chatty and energetic household.
Gina Giordano
Gina Giordano is a doula and a creator. Originally from Miami Florida, she grew up in a close family unit. As the oldest of five children, she was taught how to support and nurture at a very young age. After studying fine arts in college, she moved to New York City where she was introduced to the idea of doula work. Just after one training her passion for working in pregnancy, childbirth and beyond was ignited. In 2005 she started a business, offering birth and postpartum doula services and education to families. Through her work she learned how to offer compassionate, dignified care for ALL families during childbirth and the postpartum time, no matter their choices. She also saw a need for more doulas. Driven to serve that need she co-founded DTI with her long time friend and business partner Tara Brooke. By working as the creative director of DTI, Gina’s mission is to bring awareness to all birth and reproductive options through innovative and curated design. She is the mother to two wild girls, married to her lifelong sweetheart and lives in Austin, TX.
Ashley Gothard
Ashley Gothard had to figure out where her niche was when she loved health but not direct care. Ashley was introduced in high school to public health where she could impact behavior choices from a community level focused on preventative methods. Public Health was her place and she never looked back. Ashley studied Public Health at UNC Charlotte and continued her studies in Public Health at the University of Georgia earning her MPH.
Ashley taught young people who were currently incarcerated comprehensive sexual health education curriculum in Georgia. It was there she found joy with young people and sexual health. Empowering young people to know their bodies and the ability to advocate for themselves was a pivotal moment that catapulted her career. Ashley relocated to New Orleans, LA in 2016 to work for a national non profit teaching a comprehensive sexual health curriculum in schools. Ashley moved onto working at the state level but holds sexual health near and dear to her heart.
Anna Margaret Hollyman
Anna Margaret Hollyman is a writer and director based in Austin, Texas.
She became fascinated by postpartum health after having two c-sections within 18 months of one another and realized there was so much she didn't know. She received her BA at Sarah Lawrence College.
Tara Brooke
Tara Brooke is a social entrepreneur working to change the conversation about reproductive health.
She is drawn to the energy manifested during major life transitions, from puberty to parenting to menopause. This fascination has grown to define her career and led her to co-found Born into This, a nonprofit organization that focuses on education about the body and reproductive rights. Born into this creates content, media and online and in-person events.
In 2011 Tara Brooke also co-found DTI which thrives as an educational arm training and certifying doulas and childbirth educators.
Tara is the mother of three children and the wife of a corporate anthropologist.
advisors
Carmen Lane
M. Carmen Lane, MSOD is the founder and director of ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership (atnsc.org) an artist-run urban retreat, residency and gallery space in the historic Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
As an artist and doula, birth, death, the intersections of personal histories and systems change are central to their practice (mcarmenlane.com)
Berna Mason
Berna leads the Service Delivery Improvement Team at Every Body Texas, a non-profit that supports high quality sexual and reproductive healthcare for anyone who needs it in Texas. Berna is energized by centering the voices of people that are engaged in building holistic healthcare spaces that are equitable, inclusive, and responsive. She has served others as a full spectrum doula and midwife and uses these foundational experiences to connect and listen to the need’s others.