Trinisha Williams

Listen to Trinisha Williams and you can hear her excitement about being a midwife and helping women give birth to their babies.

It all started when she attended Lamaze classes with her sister and assisted at her the birth of her son, Williams’ nephew. That was over 22 years ago. Helping as her nephew was born is what hooked her and she decided to become a certified midwife. “I help women having babies in a safe and loving environment,” she is how she describes it.

She has been supporting women in giving birth and after in hospitals, birthing centers and in home births. “It all depends upon where a woman wants to give birth,” she says. And she assists afterwards in helping the women connect to their babies, in nursing and with infant and gynecological care.

As a black woman, she’s particularly supportive of other women of color in the birthing process. “I feel that our country has let down our community, our women and their families by not having adequate providers, not having systems that work and not having racial justice, not having equality of care,” she said. That’s what pushed her to open Midwife in the City in 2014.

She continues to be a midwife, is president of Midwife in the City Collective and is president of the American Association of Birth Centers.

A doctor once said to her “What makes you think you can make a difference?”  Her response: “Why wouldn’t I make a difference?”