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Leseliey Welch

Co-founder of Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity

Leseliey Welch is Co-founder of Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity. She is a public health leader with a business mind and a visionary heart, holding love as a guiding value, a way of being, an action and a politic. She is a mom and a tireless advocate for work that makes communities stronger, healthier and more free.  

Leseliey leads a team of birth workers, birth advocates and community leaders planning Detroit’s first freestanding community birth center Birth Detroit and is proud of the launch of Birth Center Equity to grow and sustain birth centers led by Black, Indigenous and people of color across the country. Leseliey has nearly two decades of leadership experience in city, state and national health organizations. She earned her undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies, Master of Public Health with a certificate in Women’s and Reproductive Health, and Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. 

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