Meet Lorenza Holt
Lorenza Holt has a master’s in public health (MPH) degree with a concentration in maternal and child health. She has been a birth advocate in the Boston, Massachusetts, USA area for 30 years. She is a Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer and a DONA Approved Birth Doula Trainer.
More About Lorenza
In 1995, Lorenza founded and directed the Cambridge Doula Program with the Cambridge Midwives at the Cambridge Birth Center. After obtaining her master’s in public health from Boston University in 2006, she went to Boston Medical Center to manage the Birth Sisters Program. In 2010, she served as the Executive Director for BACE- the Boston Association for Childbirth Education. In 2017, she co-founded Accompany Doula Care, an independent doula agency that contracts directly with insurance payers to provide comprehensive doula support services to families insured by Medicaid. All of the projects she has been involved with have provided services to pregnant, laboring, and postpartum families of very diverse cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Lorenza's passion for normal birth has taken her to support hundreds of laboring parents. As a doula program leader, she has trained and supervised hundreds of individuals as community doulas to support birthing families in their communities. Lorenza also has enjoyed teaching childbirth education classes to birthing families in ways that encourage and stimulate them to embrace the powerful, beautiful, and magical experience of birth.
Today, Lorenza focuses her work on training birth professionals on the Spinning Babies® approach, expanding the workforce of community doulas by offering DONA-approved birth doula training across Massachusetts, and consulting with various community groups interested in advancing the integration of doula care into healthcare systems. As an active co-lead in the MA Doula Coalition, she volunteers her time and expertise in advancing, strengthening, and supporting the workforce of doulas in Massachusetts.
