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FOUNDING DIRECTOR AND CLINICAL ADVISER
WENDY N. DAVIS, PhD is a counselor and consultant in private practice and a national perinatal mood disorders trainer. She was the Founding Director of Baby Blues Connection and now serves as Clinical Advisor and a volunteer trainer. She lives in Portland with her husband Tad and their 12 and 15 year old children.
Wendy recovered from postpartum depression and anxiety after the birth of their first child in 1994 and helped create BBC that same year. She is dedicated to Baby Blues Connection and its mission of providing informed and reliable support for pregnant and postpartum families and the professionals who serve them.
Being part of BBC and Postpartum Support International, supporting other families, and training new volunteers has given meaning to her postpartum experience. Now she finds herself grateful for that difficult postpartum time: for the depth, purpose, and community it brought to her life.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
MARCIA KAHN, board president, is a psychiatrist in a group practice, Wildwood Psychiatric Resource Center. She specializes in working with families during pregnancy and the postpartum period. A long time supporter of Baby Blues Connection, she is passionate about the organization, and sees first hand in her practice the enormous positive effect the support can have on struggling moms.
CINDY FONTENOT, board secretary, is the mother of a spirited two-year old. She began experiencing post partum depression and anxiety early in her son’s life, but didn't recognize it as such until her doctor asked her to call Baby Blues Connection. For Cindy, the most important thing about Baby Blues Connection is the attachment each mother feels to the volunteer they speak to. Knowing that the person on the other end of the phone line has been where you are and gotten through was powerful for her.
REBEKAH GARRINGER, board treasurer, is mother to two young children and works at Timbercon, Inc. as Controller.
TERI FLECKINGER SPROUSE is a licensed clinical social worker who is currently enjoying her time as a mother to her two sons.
SARAH OLLER SCOTT is a pediatrician at Oregon Pediatrics
MEG POEHLER works as a Development Manager at Fiserv and attends law school part-time.
GLORIA BORG OLDS is a retired bookseller. She co-founded and co-owned Broadway Books and continues to work there very part-time. She has served on boards and committees for decades, and is a past president of Oregon Jewish Museum. Prior to a 25-year career in bookselling she taught Hebrew at a private school in Portland and in the Portland State University summer program. Gloria has two grown sons. Gloria joined the BBC board as a way to honor the memory of her mother, who suffered from post-partum depression after the birth of Gloria's younger brother.
LIANNE SWANSON is a grandmother and works as the advertising and circulation manager of a local newspaper in Portland. Twenty years ago her grandson's mother was hospitalized with post-partum psychosis and Lianne became the care taker of the baby boy. There was no assistance or support at that time for post-partum depression and Psychiatrists painted a very dim future for families who desperately tried to understand and cope with this affliction. Lianne is passionate about BBC because of the hope and healing it offers today, and in honor of those who suffered yesterday.
LINDA ROFFE'S passion for young children and their families stems from her 25 year involvement with Northwest Nannies, Inc. which she co-founded and still co-owns. She first learned of BBC when one of her former students shared her experience with postpartum depression and the help she received through this wonderful organization. Linda is the mother of three grown children, and a soon to be grandmother.