Okunsola M. Amadou, TM, CPM, CD

Okunsola M. Amadou is the Founder & CEO of Jamaa Birth Village, which was founded in 2015, in Ferguson, MO. Now Okunsola is a 19x time award winning Black Maternal Health pioneer, recognized in Missouri as the First Black Certified Professional Midwife and First Black Registered Preceptor through the North American Registry of Midwives, and is currently training her first born son as a Black Male Midwife.On Juneteenth of 2020, Okunsola opened Missouri's First Black led Midwifery clinic. She is currently leading an initiative and capital campaign to build Missouri's First Black led birth center and postpartum retreat haven-scheduled to break grown late Summer 2024.

Okunsola’s leadership also grew the St. Louis Black Doula community from less than 10 Black practicing doulas in 2015 to certifying 460 doulas in 8-years through her Community Doula Training as St. Louis’ First Black written, created & taught community-based doula training. Okunsola leads the STL 360 Doula Initiative through the international maternal child health organization Merck for Mothers, which will identify St. Louis as a designated Safer Childbirth City in 2024 thanks to the work of Jamaa Birth Village. Okunsola is the recipient of 12-Black Maternal Health state and local proclamations, including 1-Congressional and 3-state Resolutions for her work in the field of Midwifery & Doula care. Okunsola currently sits on numerous local, state, national and global Black Maternal Health task forces, boards and committees. She is the founder of the global initiative of "Black Doula Day™" and is a kindred partner with Black Mamas Matter Alliance. Okunsola currently practices as a Global Midwife-providing Black Maternal Health consultation services for US based hospitals to improve equitable policies, state legislators to create bills that protect and advance community birth work, and international NGOs in creating their own birthing villages removing colonialism from community birthing practices.