Global Virtual Panel of Stillbirth Survivors Event - Jan.14 2022

This event is to raise awareness and educate others on the Stillbirth topic.

This event will be a survivors resource training!

Hosted by Regeline Sabbat - Motivational Keynote Speaker, 5x Bestselling Author, Life Coach, First generation Haitian American, the host of Walk With Me Podcast on JRQTV, Financial Expert, and CEO and Founder of Life Service Center of America, LLC. Endorsed by Les Brown.
 
Speakers:

(Master of Ceremonies) Lakisha James - Corporate event planner, Set Designer, Mentor, Author, and Atlanta Chapter Leader for World Women Conference & Awards

Stacey Matarazzo Dinburg- Stacey is the vice president and co-founder of The 2 Degrees Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to impacting stillbirth outcomes in the state of NJ. As a mother of a stillborn daughter Stacey has felt the need to turn her tragedy into a purpose. Stacey and her husband Sean’s first born daughter, Rhyan Ava was born sleeping on January 30, 2014 at 37 weeks gestational age. She has since become an advocate for maternal health including infertility, maternal mental health, pregnancy and infant loss, pregnancy after loss, and parenting after loss.

Over the past 6 years, Stacey has been an invited speaker at RMA of NJ’s series “The Doctor is in”, “The Stillbirth Management Conference” through the Partnership of Maternal & Child Health of Northern New Jersey, and has testified for the appropriate implementation of The Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research & Dignity Act in Trenton. Her stillbirth story has been featured in NY FOX 5’s Dr. Manny Alvarez’s “Ask Dr. Manny” news blog and in Hackensack Merdian Health Views magazine.

Stacey is a certified special educator and studied behavioral psychology at Caldwell University. She is currently studying to become a certified bereavement and birthing doula. She also works part time as an instructional facilitator and a teacher trainer at a specialized school for students with special needs.
Most importantly, Stacey is the proud mother of 2 beautiful little girls, her rainbows. She currently resides in New Jersey with her family.

 

Ana Vick- Ana Vick is the Co-Director of Awareness for PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy and a mother of three (always missing one) whose traumatic experience with two early miscarriages and her middle son, Owen’s, unexpected stillbirth in 2015, have called her to join the fight to end preventable stillbirths. 

Putting her UCLA Psychology B.A. and television production background into use, Ana leads discussion and support rooms weekly on Clubhouse in the Empowered Pregnancy Club that she founded to connect with loss families, expectant parents and medical providers. She is a vocal part of the community of bereaved parents on social media (her handle on all platforms is StillMySon) helping to break the stigma and silence shrouding stillbirth. She interviews other bereaved parents regularly about their experience because she believes that by amplifying the stillbirth crisis we can create an urgent outcry for improved standards of care for everyone. 

Ana promotes change through supporting legislative efforts including advocating for stillbirth tax credits around the country and bills targeting stillbirth prevention and bereavement care. She is relentless in her determination to end stillbirth and improve maternity care because of the rampant number of families, like her own, that continue to be wrecked by this failure of our medical system. Our country has a long way to go in developing protocols to prevent stillbirths, so it’s critical that we are not silent on this issue. As a bilingual Latina, Ana's interest in improving the higher rate of stillbirth in the BIPOC community is deeply personal and an area of change she will be dedicating great attention to this year. 

Ana has shared her personal story in national and local press including Today Parents and CBS 17 News, however, her main focus is on collaboration with other nonprofits, pregnancy advice platforms (such as Mommy Labor Nurse and Juna) and influencers to spread PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy's prevention tips to expectant parents. By empowering families with the knowledge that stillbirth still happens (even in healthy pregnancies like hers was) and explaining what they can do to minimize their risks, she believes we can save many babies in memory of her son, Owen, and all babies gone too soon. 

The Vick's recently relocated cross country from California to North Carolina, where her husband is from, with their two living children and two mini aussie pups; They fill each other's days with joy and gratitude as they navigate life after loss together.

Randy is a Canadian dad of 2 girls (one in heaven). He lost his second born daughter to stillbirth in June 2020 and since then has realized the gap in support for grieving dads. 

He is eager to spread the message of what it’s like as a grieving dad and how we can support them when they need it most

Kim is a mom of 2 girls (one in heaven). Her oldest is 4 years old and River Joy would have been 18 months old as she was born still at 34 weeks pregnant in June of 2020. 

Kim is married her to husband Randy of almost 7 years where together with their daughter they live in Ontario Canada.

Kim is passionate about stillbirth advocacy and supporting others through their grief with her social media platform (Instagram). Her goal is to help other mamas know they aren’t alone in their grief, and also help to prevent stillbirth from happening by educating others. 

Karina Portes, mommy to son Trevor Rafael whom was stillborn. As a grieving mom finding out the cause of death of my son was devastated. After sending his placenta pathology to and Dr. Harvey Kliman from Yale university who determined it was from a Placenta abruption due to a 16% percentile small Placenta. In other words this could have possibly been preventable if my baby placenta was measure during my pregnancy which unfortunately is not standard care in the United States today. There are 23,000 babies a year that are stillborn just in the United States and a lot of them are preventable making measuring the placenta standard care would’ve save my baby and many more. Today my family and I have to live to this ongoing grief and trama. 

 

Sponsors:

Ragne Sinikas - Founder of World Women Conference & Awards (WWCA), Women
Entrepreneurs TV, Change Makers Coach, Public Speaker

Michael D. Butler -CEO of Beyond Publishing, Book Publisher, Global Speaker, Media Coach

Daniel Gomez- Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Executive Coach, Confidence Architect, and Author

Melahni Ake- Melahni Ake, is the founder of Everyday Leaders
Professional Coaching and Consulting, a Certified John Maxwell Team leadership coach, speaker and trainer, and as a Certified WHY Institute Agent she helps others Discover their own WHY, Melahni professional influence began at Walt Disney World and carried into financial
services, fundraising and medical device sales and leadership. She believes in the power of our mindset to design our life with purpose. She is a popular Event Master of Ceremonies, Voice Actor, Leadership Podcast Host of Everyday Leaders 50in50, best selling author, motivational speaker and life strategy coach who challenges her clients to dream beyond their limiting beliefs and create better strategic ways to make sense out of the possibilities in front of them to change the world. What she knows is that When you know your WHY, and START with WHY,
What You Do has more Impact.

Lakisha James- Corporate event planner, Set Designer, Mentor, Author, and Atlanta Chapter Leader for World Women Conference & Awards