Team

Meet our dedicated team members.

Kimberly Durdin, LM, CPM, IBCLC

Midwifery Network Engagement Director

Kimberly Durdin is a Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife, Internationally Board Certified
Lactation Consultant(retired), Entrepreneur Speaker, Educator & Doula Trainer. As a mother of six and
grandmother of five, Kimberly credits her children (and grandchildren) as her greatest teachers.

Over the last 33 years, Kimberly has interwoven her life with the lives of thousands of families throughout
New York City, Washington DC Metro Area & Los Angeles. Be it through her work of providing lactation
care, postpartum support, groups, counseling, childbirth education, labor support or through her work
mentoring current and future birthworkers, her dedication has allowed her to fully enjoy the fruits of her
labor in the faces of the communities served. She and business partner Allegra Hill are co-owners and
co-founders of Kindred Space LA, Los Angeles’s only Black-owned Birth Center and hub for midwifery
care, out of hospital birth, doula support and training, lactation consulting, education, parenting support
groups, enrichment, movement & more. KindredSpaceLA is preparing to open additional locations in the
Southern California region. The need is great as more communities nationwide are facing a lack of
maternal healthcare options, commonly known as “maternity care deserts”.

Her non-profit the Birthing People Foundation empowers People of Color by providing free and low cost
education, training and certification pertaining to pregnancy, birth and postpartum; such as doulas,
childbirth educators, lactation consultants, birth assistants and midwives. It is designed to address the
maternal and infant health disparities in communities of color and other marginalized groups and to help
change birth outcomes for marginalized people, while bringing Black and Brown women/people back to
their roots as indigenous wellness providers.

Kimberly is stepping into an additional role as Midwifery Network Engagement Director of Birth
Center Equity (BCE), a 501c3 created to make birth center care an option in every community by
growing and sustaining birth centers led by Black, Indigenous and People of Color. Her position will play a
pivotal role in advancing the mission and impact of BCE by providing midwifery leadership, guidance and
support to birth center leaders in the BCE network.

KImberly and her work as a midwife, was recently featured on CNN’s “The Whole Story” with Anderson
Cooper and Abby Phillips on solutions to maternal health disparities. The program can be found on
streaming at HBO Max. (The program originally aired on December 18, 2023)