Koyuki Smith

I am a Birthing from Within Certified Childbirth Educator, Birth Doula, and Trainer, and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator.

I have additional professional training from DONA (birth doula), Healthy Children Project (lactation counselor), and Die Trageschule Dresden (babywearing educator). 

I have a BA from Columbia University and an MA from Columbia Teachers College. Before entering the childbirth field, I spent eight years teaching in public secondary schools in Washington Heights and Harlem; I made the transition to perinatal work in 2008.

I am the Editor in Chief of Birthing from Within International, the organization that trains birth workers in the Birthing from Within approach.

In addition to thinking, reading, writing, and teaching about transformations in the childbearing years, I am a PhD student in English literature at the City University of New York, and I practice kung fu. I live in Harlem with my husband, our two sons, three pets, and a lot of books and records. 

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