Minister, Community Midwifery, Clinical Hypnotherapy & HypnoBirthing, Womb Centering & Bone Closing, Herbalist, and Midwife Policy, Personal Trainer/Fitness/Yoga/Bellydance, Community Health Worker

Corrinna began her career in women’s health in 1998. She trained to become a doula in 2007, moved to Georgia, and began studying to be a midwife in 2008 while also working for 3 Obstetric offices that offered midwife services and water birth in the hospital from 2008 until 2019 as a childbirth educator and patient liaison. Corrinna attended over 1000 births as a doula, apprentice, and midwife in various settings in Georgia, South Carolina, Canada, Uganda, and Dominican Republic. She apprenticed in traditional home birth practices under well-seasoned traditional and licensed midwives for 7 years while simultaneously studying through a South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and State approved midwife program. Corrinna partnered with grand midwife UmmSalamaah “Sondra” Abdullah-Zaimah (the eldest practicing midwife in the US) in 2014 as an advanced Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) candidate while earning her Health Sciences Degree from Georgia State University and fighting midwife policy in Georgia. She was the first African American/Aboriginal Metis  (identifies as black),  to ever earn the North American Registry of Midwives CPM credential in Georgia. Corrinna is a midwife preceptor for Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery, the first and only black owned nationally accredited midwifery school. Corrinna helped to co-author with Jennie Joseph, the resolution passed by the National Black Caucus of State Legislators general body and health committee to legalize and reimburse community midwives and community health workers. She additionally helped co-create the Community Midwives Act Bill in Georgia, which has currently had the most progress in the Georgia Senate and House, than any other previous midwife legislation for community-based midwifery. Corrinna is the former fellow of Commonsense Childbirth National Perinatal Task Force, developing the Perinatal Safe Spot US map. Corrinna has spent the last 4 years working on midwife policy and consulting with organizations such as Black Mamas Matter Alliance as Midwifery Care Policy and Advocacy Consultant in 2020. Corrinna is the founder Bellies to Babies Foundation, offering free training for doulas, birth assistants, and community midwives, and a founding sister with grand midwives UmmSalaamah, Mama Nasrah, Mama Sarahn, and others, of Community Midwives National Alliance. She currently employed by The Georgia State Senate for Senator Lester Jackson and Madam Chair of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Senator Tonya Anderson,  The Birth Place/Easy Access Clinic and Commonsense Childbirth Inc. Community Health Worker Lead all Founded by Jennie Joseph. Additionally she owns and operates a midwife ministry attending home births in Georgia with her partner UmmSalamah, while training, mentoring midwife students. She additionally assists elder midwife Marsha Ford, CNM for home birth coverage and assistance. Corrinna recently graduated and earned a second health sciences degree in Tennessee, specific in midwifery and recognized by the Department of Education.