Academic Faculty

  • Merriah Fairchild
    Merriah Fairchild, BA, IBCLC is a Birthingway-trained postpartum doula and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She teaches the Postpartum Doula Workshop. Merriah started her private practice, Bridgetown Baby, in 2014 ...
  • Heather Hack-Sullivan
    Heather Hack-Sullivan, BSM, CPM, LDM has come full circle in the Birthingway community. She began teaching Infancy classes several years ago only to then become a student, a graduate, a ...
  • Celeste Kersey
    Celeste Kersey, BA, CPM, LDM is passionate about living consciously, and is a perpetual student of NVC and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Midwifery and Motherhood. Celeste teaches Birthingway’s Communication series, is ...
  • Cari Nyland
    Cari Nyland, ND, teaches Birthingway’s three-part Plant Medicine series, and Introduction to Healing Systems. She is a naturopath who practices in Portland, Oregon.
  • Aerlyn Pfeil
    Aerlyn Pfeil is a certified professional midwife and sexual violence program consultant from Portland, Oregon. After graduating from Birthingway College she joined Doctors Without Borders and has worked in maternal ...
  • Holly Scholles
    Holly Scholles, MA, CPM, LDM is a midwife with a tiny practice, as well as an anthropologist specializing in human reproduction and medical anthropology. Holly is the founder and president ...