Aszani Kunkler CNM, MSN, CLC
Aszani is the founder of the Madison Birth Center. She has worked with hundreds of birthing women as a doula, labor and delivery nurse, and nurse-midwife. In the 1980s, she co-founded Full Bloom, a center offering childbirth classes, doula services and massage to childbearing women. She taught childbirth classes for the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) for ten years. She attained her midwifery certificate from the Frontier School of Midwifery and her masters degree in nursing from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She is an Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber (APNP) and a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). Aszani also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Birth Centers. Aszani is mother to two young adults - Maureen, born in hospital, and Daniel, born at home. She lives with her husband of 25+ years, Bill, who is an instrumental support to everyone at MBC.

Anastasia Doherty CNM, MSN, CLC
Anastasia has been a certified nurse-midwife since 2002 and has worked in the healthcare field since 1990. She received her masters degree in nurse-midwifery from the University of Illinois and practiced in the diverse environment of the Chicago public health clinics and Swedish Covenant Hospital for four years. She also served 10 years in the Illinois National Guard and the United States Army Nurse Corps as a surgical technician, medic and registered nurse. Anastasia has attended over 300 births as a midwife and has enjoyed assisting women in making their own safe health care decisions. Madison is her hometown, and she lives here with her husband Tom and two daughters, Lucy and Hazel. Lucy was born in Chicago and Hazel was born into Anastasia and Aszani's hands at home.

Mary Moore CNM, MSN
Mary has taken a meandering path to midwifery practice, and thinks of it all as grist for the mill. After studying feminist theology and working in a variety of non-profits, she received her masters degree in nurse midwifery from Yale in 1996. Since then, she has been privileged to attend women in birth in an independent midwifery group in Massachusetts, on the Navajo Nation in rural New Mexico and Arizona, and in the very busy labor ward of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. These experiences have deepened her commitment to safe, attentive, fiercely woman-centered childbirth, and she feels shocked at her good luck in finding her way to MBC in 2007. Mary hails from the northeast but is learning to rather enjoy being a Midwesterner. She lives with her partner Claire in Madison, marveling at the lovely black soil that allows her to garden around a little house chosen in part for its proximity to Michael’s Frozen Custard.