About Midwife In The City
Trinisha Williams has over 20 years of midwifery-public health experience. She is embedded in equity and advancement of the midwifery-led models in communities, hospitals, and academic teaching centers. She sits on the board of directors of nationally recognized evidence-based organizations; the American Association of Birth Centers, Lamaze International, and the American Midwifery Certification Board. Trinisha’s assistance has guided practices to optimally design their team-based care with an equity lens and reorganization for diversity and inclusion.
Trinisha spent the next decade working as a midwife and educator in New York City hospitals, and she founded her home birth midwifery practice, Midwife in the City, in 2014. She currently teaches midwifery students at SUNY Downstate and attends homebirth deliveries. She is the former Director of Midwifery at the Brooklyn Birthing Center. In 2019, Trinisha was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Birth Centers as Vice President. She has attended over a thousand births in her career both in hospitals, homes, and birth centers. Currently, she is working on creating Brooklyn’s first Midwifery Led Non-profit birthing center, Haven Midwifery Birthing Center (havenmidwifery.org). She is married, an aunt of 12, and a native New Yorker who resides in Brooklyn.