About the Trainers

Debra Pascali-Bonaro

Debra Pascali-Bonaro is the mother of five children, Fundraising Chairperson and Member of the Leadership Council of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, (CIMS, www.motherfriendly.org,) a doula, past member of the Board of Directors of DONA, DONA's Public Relations Chair from 1992-1998, and a DONA approved Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainer. She has worked as a doula since 1986. She has been a certified childbirth educator since 1986 and has been training and speaking about doulas internationally since 1987. "My work has honored me with designing programs, training and speaking in diverse communities, from the South Bronx, NY to the White House and the UN. I provide doula training to nursing, midwifery, and medical students, and provide in-services to nurses, midwives, residents and physicians. I feel it is a privilege and an honor to work with pregnant women, their families, and doulas. Please visit my web site to learn more about my services."
Debra is a coauthor of the textbook Nurturing Beginnings: MotherLove's Guide to Postpartum Home Care for Doulas and Outreach Workers. She has published articles on doula care in Birth, Journal of Midwifery and Womans Health, Hospital Physician, The International Doula and The Journal of Perinatal Education.

Jane Arnold

Jane Arnold, CNM was a labor support and postpartum doula for many years. She began one of the first postpartum doula services, The Mom Service Inc, in the United States in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1980. After raising her four children she went back to nursing and midwifery school and graduated from the Frontier Nursing Service in 1990. She has been a nurse-midwife in a variety of settings including a Free-standing Birth Center and a tertiary care center in a large medical center. Currently she is director of the Midwifery Division at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She coauthored Nurturing Beginnings with Debra Pascali-Bonaro.