Nina is the newest addition to One Love Center for Health. She is a native of Oakland, CA and has been a Board Certified Lactation Consultant for nearly 20 years.
In her role here, she is looking forward to establishing community-based breastfeeding services, providing lactation education for medical personnel and mentoring lactation consultant students. Most recently, her interest lies in supporting feeding decisions in women and birthing people living with HIV.
She was the very first Lactation Consultant at Highland Hospital (formerly Alameda County Medical Center) in Oakland, CA. Along with One Love co-founder, Michele Bunker-Alberts, Nina played an integral part in developing a unique, evidence based lactation department that ultimately led the facility to become one of the first WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly hospitals in California. Currently, Nina works in inpatient, outpatient and home visiting settings in community pediatric clinics and large county and academic hospitals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
She is incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with an ethnically and linguistically diverse group of families, from whom she has learned a tremendous amount about infant feeding.
In her free time, she enjoys playing the viola with local orchestras and traveling the world with her three children.
