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.
JESSICA HARRISON, board secretary, is a Clinical Social Worker and birth/postpartum doula with Wildwood Psychiatric Resource Center and the Mother-Baby Program at Cedar Hills Hospital. She specializes in the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and she feels fortunate to work in a community so rich in supportive resources for families in the perinatal period.
SAM ROSENBAUM, board treasurer
LIANNE SWANSON is a grandmother and works as Office Administrator for Postpartum Support International. Twenty years ago her grandson’s mother was hospitalized with post-partum psychosis and Lianne and her son became the care takers 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.
LORI BURR, MBA, CFRE, has been a philanthropic consultant for 10 years and is experienced in non-profit Board development. She is a mentor to a Native American third grader through Futures for Children and has served on a number of boards. Lori lives in Tualatin with her husband, Jamie and their German Shepherd, Sasha.
BONNIE REAGAN, MD, RN, is a family physician recently retired from 22 years of practice at Portland Family Practice. She remains involved in community service work, as she is on the Board of Directors of BBC and the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians, is on the Steering Committee of Healthy Kids, is on the Medical Advisory Committee of Komen for the Cure, and on the Peace Working Group of Physicians for Social Responsibility. She also spends a lot of time with her four grandchildren. In her work delivering babies and caring for the family, she saw a lot of postpartum mood disorders and is very committed to working for a group that delivers services to those in need.
KATIE RAETZ, board member: Nurse-Midwife since 1979. Retired from delivering babies in 2007. Currently sees OB/GYN patients at Women’s Health Care Associates
Peterkort office. Katie has developed a focus in her practice of sensitivity to a mother’s mood, whether it is during pregnancy or postpartum. Helping all mothers achieve emotional comfort is a priority in Katie’s practice.
TABITHA RHODES