BLKBRY, LLC

09/18/2025

✨Applications close tomorrow! CC, Our amazing trainer is in the comments ✨

Black residents of Seattle and King County are invited to apply for our upcoming Community Outreach Perinatal Educator (COPE) Training, in partnership with The Cultural Wellness Center and Jennie Joseph-Midwife’s Commonsense Childbirth Institute…oh and this isn’t your average doula training 👏🏽

This offering is for people who have never taken a doula training before and want to step into birthwork with a community-centered and advocacy-rooted foundation.

Training participants will be immersed in a learning experience including:

💫Full-spectrum doula skills from pregnancy through postpartum
💫Lactation and infant feeding basics
💫Advocacy tools to navigate healthcare systems
💫Culturally rooted practices that center Black families and community healing

This training is open to all gender identifying Black folks and is specifically for those living in Seattle, Burien, and surrounding areas in Washington. If you have felt called to birthwork, now is the time to apply and join a movement that is transforming how we birth, parent, and advocate!

Apply here:
bit.ly/copewashington

Thank you for your interest in BLKBRY’s private Community Outreach Perinatal Educator training opportunity facilitated by Common Sense Institute. This 3-day in-person training certifies you to provide community-based doula care, childbirth education, and lactation support. Training Dates: October ...

09/12/2025

Congratulations to our friends at After Birth 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

09/10/2025

Words for a REAL ONE:

Happy Birthday, Jazmin! I am so grateful for your gentle leadership and your kind heart! You are so much more than a coworker or my boss - you are someone I trust and admire. I pray that you have a wonderful birthday, and that you continue to thrive and flourish!
With love, Jaela

Happy Birthday to my SugarBear...my daughter, my friend, and the one who signs my check but can’t fire me! LOL Every year I see you become more of the woman I envisioned you to be. You are BLKBRY’s North Star - a leader, a visionary and a Boss Babe. I love you to the moon and back
❤ ~ Your Biggest Cheerleader (Mommy)

Happy Birthday Jaz✨ I am honored to have a friend and a boss with values rooted in care and abundance. Working with you has been such a healing experience, you are such a beautiful manifestation of love! I can’t wait to see what all we do, your dreams are my dreams and it’s BLKBRY fo’ life!!!
Warmest, Tay

Wish our ED some birthday love!!!

09/08/2025

Only 10 days left until the HEAL Summit!

Join us on September 18th at 8:30 AM for The Time is Now: Building Resilience in Maternal Child Health. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and strengthen our community together.

🎟️ Registration: $85 (includes breakfast, lunch, and a conference t-shirt).
👉 Register here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/sd4gxvy

09/05/2025

✨ Let’s kick September off right by continuing the countdown to the 2025 HEAL Summit! ✨

📅 Join us on Thursday, September 18 for a powerful day of learning, connection, and action as we work together to advance health equity in Tarrant County.

✅ Registration is open—secure your spot today!
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/SD4GXVY?fbclid=IwY2xjawMe7uxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFvTXFxdkc0b2U5bjlyUXB3AR7hL8n88yRSnv8CTXBUX8_hMHrTQGm5OmH_6CYCKlm9t_YIaTuRpd27geI4qQ_aem_sK3NkLwIqfJTNHft9LffiA

09/01/2025

DFW ✨

08/29/2025

08/26/2025

We feel so honored to be in community with amazing educators like Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra!

We are proud to shine a light on Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra, a beloved sister, Culture Bearer, and lifelong advocate for birthing people and families. With over three decades of experience in perinatal health, Akhmiri has served her community with deep spiritual grounding, cultural wisdom, and fierce dedication. Based in Minneapolis, she currently serves as Chief Family Development Officer and Health Systems Navigator at the Cultural Wellness Center, where she supports families throughout their birthing journeys and mentors the next generation of birth workers.

Akhmiri has trained countless doulas, lactation counselors, and childbirth educators across the country. She brings cultural humility and ancestral knowledge into every space she enters. As a 2024 McKnight Culture Bearer Fellow, she continues to hold space for healing, tradition, and transformation in maternal health. Her work reminds us that birth is not only a physical process, it is a sacred act of creation. We honor Akhmiri for the powerful legacy she is living and for the path she continues to create for all of us.

Learn More: https://www.culturalwellnesscenter.org/