Linda Jones (Mama Linda) is a Birth and Postpartum Doula, Photographer and mother of two,

grandmother of five and great- grandmother of four, who lives in Oakland, CA. She founded and

owned Waddle and Swaddle Baby Boutique and Birth Resource Center in Berkeley, CA from 2000 to 2010 and

has been a part of the natural birth advocacy and reproductive justice community in the Bay

Area for over three decades.

She is the Executive Director and one of the co-founders of Black Women Birthing Justice

(BWBJ) (blackwomenbirthingjustice.com) (2011- present) and is co-author of Battling Over

Birth; Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis in California. Linda is the Doula

Coordinator for the BWBJ Doula Collective and a facilitator/trainer for the BWBJ Black Doula

Training Program.

When not doing birth justice work, Mama Linda can be found traveling the world and taking

photographs.