About Me: Hi - I am a midwife orginally from Chicago now living in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. I am the Executive Director of Mujeres Aliadas a binational NGO based in human rights. We have several components to the project which include community outreach and education, two low cost women's clinics, birthing cottages and a professional midwifery school. I'm very proud of our work! Check us out <a href="http://www.mujeresaliadas.org">www.mujeresaliadas.org</a>. I am very interested in this project "Voices of Our Future," and welcome any opportunity to be a part of women speaking out. Thank you, Brenda Madura My Passions: helping underserved women, writing My Challenges: bureaucracy, closed minded people My Vision for the Future: Women who are confidant enough to speak and demand to be heard My Areas of Expertise: Midwifery and gyne, special emphasis on sexually transmitted infections

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Introducing myself and my journal: In Her Own Voice

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