STAFF
Amanda Mann, LM
EXECUTIVE Director
Amanda Mann, L.M. comes to FSTM with more than 15 years experience as a teacher, school administrator, and most importantly, an FSTM graduate. She has a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in creative writing. Amanda fervently believes that birth is an essential life process that has the potential to transform, inspire, and engage. She believes that midwifery is an essential intersection between passion and the world’s greatest need. Amanda is married with four boys, and enjoys reading and working at her local midwifery clinic.
Kerri Audette, LM
program Director
Kerri Audette, is a licensed midwife and graduate of the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery. She currently practices in north-central Florida. Kerri also holds a Bachelor's of Design from the University of Florida School of Architecture. She was inspired to pursue work in women’s health as a result of her experiences with her local women’s roller derby league. Kerri is a Gainesville native and birthed her own children at home with midwives.
Email: kaudette@midwiferyschool.org
SOREll pagliara, LM
program coordinator
Sorell is a licensed midwife and a graduate of The Florida School of Traditional Midwifery. Her exposure to the loving and expert care of midwives began with the home birth of her siblings. She was led to midwifery as a career after the birth of her daughters, Willow and Juniper. Working with local midwives she has attended home birth and birth center births in her home town of Gainesville, Florida and the surrounding area since 2012.
Melissa Pierre
FINANCIAL AID Coordinator
Melissa is a birth doula and holds a bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida. Prior to her work with FSTM she worked as an English teacher in Jacmel, Haiti and as a campus manager at the Artists Institute in Jacmel. Melissa is married with 3 children. The birth of her first born sparked her interest in birth work. She enjoys spending time with family and friends.
TIM BRYANT
BUSINESS manager
Tim Bryant has worked in non-profit finance for 10 years and is excited to serve FSTM students, faculty, and staff as Business Director. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of One Love Prison Meditation Project, a non-profit supporting people who are incarcerated.
COURTNEY JULIEN, LM, CPM
IDEA coordinator
Courtney graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in women’s studies where her interest in out of hospital care and midwifery began. In 2014, she began studies at the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery where she obtained extensive training and developed a skill set on prenatal, labor and postpartum care. Courtney is passionate about changing the disproportionate statistics for people of color during the perinatal period and helping students of color find their voice and representation in the birth community. Courtney is happily married and has a sweet baby girl. Courtney’s personal experiences are what motivate her to keep doing this work! Courtney currently works as a full time midwife at Labor of Love Birth Center in Tampa FL.
ABI FLETCHER, LM
PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Abi became inspired to become a midwife in 2004 while doing solidarity work in Palestine where they met traditional midwives. They graduated from the International School of Midwifery in Miami and became a licensed midwife in 2009. They practiced as a birth center and home birth midwife for 10 years at the Birth Center of Gainesville, and the Midwives Cooperative. After becoming a parent of two amazing kids, Abi transitioned from attending births to working at FSTM as an instructor and program assistant team member. Abi believes strongly that the world needs more midwives! They are happy to be a part of supporting student midwives in their birth work journeys. Abi is also a board member of the Southern Birth Justice Network, who strives to make midwives accessible to all- especially BIPOC, LGBTQI+, immigrant, working class and other marginalized communities.
ELENA ROSA, LM, CPM
PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Elena has always gravitated towards the healing arts in service of others. She graduated from the Florida College of Natural Health in 2002 and maintained a massage license for 17 years. As a birthworker since 2008, she worked for several Central Florida midwives prior to attending FSTM where she realized her deepening passion for serving her local birth community. In 2017, she graduated from FSTM and became a mother in the same year. Obtaining her midwifery license in 2018, she created Kindred Holistic Midwifery with the intention of blending her experience as a massage therapist and purpose as a licensed midwife to offer Maya abdominal therapy (Arvigo) in conjunction with reproductive health counseling, midwifery care, and homebirth. Elena is currently an FSTM core faculty member and part of the program assistant team which allows her to support students in discovering who they are as people and who they want to be as midwives. Her non-birth related interests include traveling, cooking, camping, and personal growth.