About Us



LaneCoFBC is a volunteer-led advocacy organization. We support community access to an accredited, freestanding birth center.  Toward these ends, the LaneCoFBC has quarterly board meetings, and sponsors and supports activities and organizations that help make birth center care possible for Lane County families. 

Email:              lanecofbc@gmail.com
Blog:                http://www.lanecofbc.blogspot.com
Facebook:        http://www.facebook.com/lanecofbc
Instagram:        https://www.instagram.com/lanecofbc
Twitter:            http://twitter.com/lanecofbc


Board Members: 
Ann Carney Nelson
COO, Inpria Corporation
Mother of two birth center babies (born 2012, 2015)

Jess Dion, M.S.
Owner, Wild Light Yoga Center
Mother of 2 "would have been" birth center babies (2018, 2020)

Heather Gray

Jennifer Hawthorn, MA IBCLC
Educator; Postpartum and Death & Loss Doula; Licensed Lactation Consultant 
Community Volunteer and Activist, Co-Founder of Daisy C.H.A.I.N.
Mother of two home birth babies, two birth center babies and two losses (born 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011)

Lynn Kane, PhD
Commissioner, Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers
Mother of two birth center babies (born 2010, 2012)

Ren McLemore

Jennifer Noyce, PhD
Mother of two birth center babies (born 2012, 2014)

Lindsay Selser
Communications and Policy Analyst--Planning and Development Department, City of Eugene
Board of Directors, Sexual Assault Support Services
Mother of two birth center babies (born 2014, 2016)


Emeritus Board
Katharine Gallagher
Eleanor Vandegrift
Karen Guillemin
Kathy Lynn
Renee Bailey
Anna Chorlton
Maria Blum
Jennifer Rinner
Sara Starlin
Matt Huston
Heather LeCompte
Teresa Roark
Rabbi Jacob Siegel