After reviewing nominations from the Bridgetown Baby team, the leadership team chose Whitney for several reasons:
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Whitney is well loved by her clients and provides thoughtful, comprehensive care to all of her family.
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Whitney is a great communicator and works collaboratively with other postpartum doulas and IBCLCs on the Bridgetown Baby team.
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Whitney nurtures our team by showing up with authenticity and compassion at various events (and recruiting her friends to join as well).
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Whitney generously gives back to our community in many ways including volunteering with families in need of doula care and organizing supplies for asylum seeker and refugee families in Portland through Immigrant Mutual Aid Society.
Whitney embodies our core values and is a great example of what we all strive to be as Bridgetown Baby staff and people. During her three years at Bridgetown Baby, she brought endless light, laughter and comfort to everyone she met, and we loved her dearly.
The Camilla Rae Award was established to honor Camilla Rae, a full spectrum doula and sleep consultant who has worked with Bridgetown Baby since almost the beginning and has cared for hundreds of families while helping to grow Bridgetown Baby into the organization that we are now. now.
The Camilla Rae Award is presented annually, and candidates are nominated by the Bridgetown Baby team of postpartum doulas and lactation consultants. Award winners deeply embody Bridgetown Baby’s core values: Empathy; patience; Social Justice; Love; connection; Respect; and, Integrity.
