The Bridge Directory

We are deeply honored to be featured in Daily’s Women Who Start Things series! To see our work reflected in this way is a powerful affirmation of what community-rooted care makes possible when lived experience, trust, and accountability are centered.

is a tech-enabled maternal health platform that makes grassroots innovation discoverable, measurable, and actionable. We connect families to culturally aligned providers of color while partnering with hospitals, universities, and institutions to translate lived experience into data, accountability, and systems change through research.

, our non profit arm, exists to meet families where systems fall short — providing direct funding and access to essential perinatal and mental health care, including doulas, midwifery, lactation support, and therapy.

We remain committed to revolutionizing the birth experience by building pathways to culturally aligned care and transforming systems from the inside out. Special thanks to Bethany Heitman and Sofia Lodato for this amazing opportunity and recognizing the power of community-led solutions.

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Coalition building is the process of bringing together individuals, organizations, or groups—often with different backgrounds, perspectives, or areas of expertise—around a shared goal or issue in order to amplify impact, coordinate efforts, and create systemic change.

It involves aligning on core values, establishing trust (or working toward it), and navigating differences to build collective power. Coalition building is not just tactical—it’s transformational.

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We were featured in today on the hypocrisy of this administration.

Forbes writer writes:

Given Musk’s endless warnings that falling birthrates pose an existential threat to civilization, DOGE’s abrupt gutting of maternal health services is simultaneously ironic, and exactly what you’d expect from an effort whose blunders may well exceed its claimed, but difficult to verify, achievements. A father to an estimated 14 children, Musk has said he thinks “civilization is going to crumble” if women don’t have more babies. He has offered his s***m to acquaintances and blamed birth control for decreasing pregnancy rates. “It should be considered a national emergency to have kids,” he wrote last summer.

“We can’t claim to care about birthrates while defunding the very systems that make pregnancy, birth, and parenting safe,” says Emilie Rodriguez, a medical anthropologist, doula, and co-founder of The Bridge Directory, a group of perinatal maternal healthcare providers.