Felisha Brooks-Floyd, BS, CLC, IBCLC

Education Director

Military Lactation Counselor Program Director

Felisha Brooks-Floyd, BS, CLC, IBCLC, is an active duty Air Force Wife, and proud mother of three breastfed children.  She works with breastfeeding families in clinical and community settings, and is a nationally-renowned expert and advocate on racial equity and diversity issues in lactation.  She is also a Center for Social Inclusion First Food Equity Cohort member; a founding member and past President of the National Assoication of Professional and Peer Lactation Supporters of Color (NAPPLSC); and the social media presence “Blactavist!” (Black Lactation Activist), an online community of approximately 38,000 supporters on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, dedicated to empowering African American families to breastfeed.  Felisha is a national leader, an experienced trainer and speaker, and a consultant, presenting on topics of clinical breastfeeding, racial equity, first food justice, mentorship, power of collective impact and more.  She has conducted national trainings for WIC and consulted on the WIC Loving Support Program and the Boston Medical College’s Communities and Hospitals Advancing Maternity Practices program.  She served on the boards of the United States Breastfeeding Committee and the Florida State Breastfeeding Coalition, in addition to her work with Mom2Mom Global.

Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC

Executive Director

Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC, is an established and highly sought-after speaker and expert in the areas of breastfeeding and military families, breastfeeding grief, and online breastfeeding support for millennial parents. She serves on the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) U.S. Working Group, and as the Board Treasurer for the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee, and she co-founded and served on the Military Breastfeeding Coalition Steering Committee. She is a regular contributor to the Mom2MomGlobal and MomsRising.org blogs, and has guest-blogged for various lactation websites.  Her work has been published in Taking The Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media (Demeter Press).  A professional actor and voice artist, Amy has also narrated the audiobook version of My Tandem Nursing Journey and the documentary film Untying Breastfeeding.  Amy is the wife of an Army Reservist and mother of four breastfed children, living in Germany