New York East Area Conference

Speaker Bios

LLaLeche LeagueInternational (LLLI) Representatives
Amy Shaw, Division Director for La Leche League International–Eastern United States (LLLI-EUS) Division, has been a Leader for 26 years and is the mother of three grown sons. She has been a part of the EUS as the Administrative Director of Leader Accreditation and is now helping the EUS and Leaders continue the mission of LLLI. Amy is inspired by Leaders who believe in and actively promote good mothering through breastfeeding within their own cultures.

Pam Freedman, LLLI-EUS Associate Director for Regional Administrators, first became involved with La Leche League while living in Bexley, Ohio while pregnant with her second child. Not having breastfed her first child, she quickly learned the benefits of breastfeeding with subsequent children! Pam became an LLL Leader in 1984. Pam works with two LLL Groups in Chapel Hill and helps to keep La Leche League in the community spotlight there. Pam and her husband, Steve, have three adult children.

Vicky Doran, LLLI-EUS Regional Administrator for the Northeast Region, has been a Leader for 17 years in the same Group she first attended. She greatly enjoys working directly with mothers and babies, and can often be found off in a corner communing with the toddlers. When not busy with La Leche League, Vicky has fun working at a live theatre as the Audience Services Manager. At home, Vicky has had the joy of raising three children with the loving support of her husband, Scott.

Featured Speakers

Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is a La Leche League Leader, health psychologist, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and Research Associate and Affiliate Research Associate Professor of Psychology specializing in women’s health at the Family Research Lab, University of New Hampshire. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is the chair of the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Taskforce and the Area Coordinator of Leaders for La Leche League of Maine and New Hampshire. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is the author of more than 170 journal articles, book chapters, and other publications; and author or editor of 17 books on stress, depression, and trauma in the lives of women.

Nancy Mohrbacher, La Leche League Leader, IBCLC, is co-author of THE BREASTFEEDING ANSWER BOOK (2003) and Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers (2005). She has been helping breastfeeding families since 1982. Board-certified in 1991, she ran a large private practice in the Chicago area from 1993 to 2003. Nancy is now a lactation consultant for Ameda Breastfeeding Products and is chair of the Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition.

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Lucia Barthes* Rene Fisher* Leigh Anne O’Connor*

Donna Bruschi* Pam Freedman* Kim Otis*

Julie Bouchet-Horwitz* Elisa Grimm* Joe Otter

Kristin Carter* Jennifer Hurd* Abby Ritter

Diana Cassar-Uhl* Kathleen Kendall-Tackett* Norma Ritter*

Meg Clayton* Kari Kohl* Amy Shaw*

Christie Craigie-Carter Patti Lane* Kari Kohl*

Mary Fay* Marjorie Vera* Chana Sidi*

Constance Culley* Mary Kay Linge* Susan Silberger*

Vicky Doran* Helen McCullagh* Patricia Switzer*

Betsy Belle Eadie* Karen McGratty* Bryan Uhl

Melissa Fairweather* Traci Meiler* Marjorie Vera*

Brian Fay Lenora Mesibov* Kathy Waldow*

Mary Fay* Nancy Mohrbacher*

CME, Nursing, and CERP Faculty

Lucia Barthes*, IBCLC
Diana Cassar-Uhl*
Constance Culley*
Julie Bouchet-Horwitz*, NP, IBCLC
René Fisher*, IBCLC
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett*, Ph.D., IBCLC
Nancy Mohrbacher*, IBCLC
Leigh Anne O’Connor*, IBCLC

*denotes a La Leche League Leader

La Leche League Of New York-East Area Team

Traci Meiler, Area Conference Supervisor
Kristin Carter, Area Coordinator of Leaders (outgoing)
Helen McCullagh, Area Coordinator of Leaders (incoming)
Marjorie Vera, Coordinator of Leader Accreditation
Lenora Mesibov, Area Finance Coordinator
Mary Kay Linge, Area Leaders’ Letter Editor
Donna Bruschi, Communication Skills Instructor
Coordinator (outgoing)
Mary Fay, Communication Skills Instructor Coordinator (incoming)
Diana Cassar–Uhl, Area Professional Liaison

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