Conference Speakers
Featuring:
Kelly Cassidy*, Kathy Dettwyler, Kay Hoover*, Melissa Lucchesi, Lisa Mandell*
Baker Anderson |
Bobbie North* |
*denotes a La Leche League Leader
Speaker Bios
Kathy Dettwyler, PhD, is a biocultural anthropologist, researcher, lecturer, and author who has been thinking and writing about breastfeeding and weaning since 1980. She teaches anthropology at the University of Delaware, and lives in Newark, Delaware with her husband Steven, son Peter, and two poodles. Her daughter Miranda lives with her husband, son, and daughter in Cardiff, Wales. Her son Alex is married and lives in Pittsburgh; he recently graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Kay Hoover, M Ed, IBCLC, FILCA, and husband, Charlie are the parents of three sons and the proud grandparents of three grandsons. Kay has been an LLL Leader for 42 years. Kay has worked as a private practice lactation consultant, a hospital lactation consultant, the lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, for The Center for Childhood Obesity Research at The Pennsylvania State University, and currently works for the Pennsylvania Department of Health. She has presented workshops at national and international conferences and is a co-author of The Breastfeeding Atlas.
Melissa Lucchesi, BA, is the mama of one sweet little boy. She has worked in the trauma field for nearly a decade. She has a bachelor’s in psychology from Widener University and is working on her master’s in clinical counseling psychology and trauma studies at Chestnut Hill College. Melissa is the founder and director of Voices, Inc., which seeks to assist trauma survivors and their loved ones in creating their own healing journey in order to reclaim their voices. She is a member of La Leche League and has attended meetings since 2011.
Jeremi Dilworth has worked in the birth community since 1995. She graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in dance. While pursuing a dance career she found herself increasingly drawn to the community of allied health professionals working in the fields of childbirth and lactation. She became certified as a doula and childbirth educator and taught in birth centers, parenting resource centers, and in private practice in New York City and the Delaware Valley region. She has been a La Leche League Leader since 2009 and became an IBCLC in 2011. As a homeschooling mother of three, she is constantly humbled in the pursuit of balance