Who we areThe Texas Doula Association (TDA) exists to strengthen the Doula profession statewide by supporting collective leadership, responsible advocacy, and alignment across communities and systems of care.
why TDA EXISTSLANDSCAPEDoulas across Texas work within fragmented regional systems shaped by geography, funding, and institutional policies.
Recognition, support, and integration of Doulas vary widely from one community to another.
Policy and system-level decisions affecting Doulas are often made without consistent statewide input from the workforce.
Without coordination, local efforts can remain isolated, limiting shared understanding of Doula workforce needs and experiences.
TDA's role A statewide organization that helps connect regional Doula voices as well as surface any shared patterns across communities.
TDA works to align lived experience with systems-level understanding without replacing local leadership.
Convening and listening enabling Doula workforce needs to be identified beyond individual regions and amplified appropriately.
This role supports responsible advocacy and collective visibility while respecting professional autonomy of Doulas.
TDA envisions a future where the Doula profession is self-governed, defined by Doulas, not institutions — and where policy is shaped for Doulas, by Doulas.
Meet The Board
Linsey is a white, queer, disabled woman who enjoys nurturing spiritual awareness into physical form as a certified, Full Spectrum Doula supporting post-traumatic growth that prioritizes maternal clients' mental health for families experiencing pregnancy loss, fetal demise and scenarios that call for crisis care during childbirth. After the death of her full term son, Linsey, a professional writer and communicator was born into a fresh perspective navigating a new life. A mother to eight conceptions across pregnancy’s spectrum with two full term births born in two years and only one living child, Linsey advises organizations, clinicians, startups, associations and influencers to ensure equitable frameworks exist centered on the possibility of loss so the greatest potential for healing can happen using integrated and proven strategies. With this context in mind, Linsey currently serves the Texas Doula Association as acting Communications Chair, Board Member and Secretary.
Linsey also started the Collective Harts Project as a collaborative network of trauma-informed specialists to include bereavement workshops, centering anti-racist projects that furthers physiological and psychological respect. Linsey’s work has appeared in Fast Co, Authority Magazine, Quartz, NBC News, Hospice News and MindBodyGreen to name a few. As a caregiver and entrepreneur, Linsey inspires impactful cultural competencies through her writings while using her strategic communication skills to uplift services, products and policies with change makers challenging harmful health norms during life’s greatest transitions.
To reach Linsey directly email her at Linsey@txdoulas.org or visit her LinkedIn.
Quanisha is a Full Spectrum Doula and infant and family sleep specialist whose work is grounded in direct client care, community leadership, and maternal health advocacy. As Co-Founder and Vice President of the Texas Doula Association, Quanisha is committed to ensuring that Doula voices are represented with accuracy, care, and integrity. Her experience supporting families across fertility, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum shapes how she approaches leadership, education, and communication—centering clarity, trust, and lived experience.
Alongside her Doula practice, Quanisha is a multidisciplinary creative strategist and brand director who supports maternal health organizations, wellness brands, and advocacy networks in communicating their values with cultural responsiveness and emotional integrity. Her creative leadership grew directly from her time in the field, offering a way to extend doula-informed care into storytelling, public education, and systems-level advocacy.
Quanisha is also the founder of Butterfly Rose Village, a creative and care-centered hub that houses her work across doula services, education, and storytelling. Through its branches—including Rosewood Letters & Prints, a legacy-keeping stationery brand inspired by doula care, and The Zzz Hive, an educational platform focused on biologically normal infant sleep—she develops tools and narratives that support families and the professionals who serve them.
Quanisha approaches creativity not as decoration, but as a form of advocacy—shaping understanding, building trust, and supporting sustainable change in maternal health.
To reach Quanisha directly email her at Quanisha@txdoulas.org or visit her LinkedIn.
DeAnna Vonbartheld, MBA
DeAnna is a proud mother of two, a Full Spectrum Doula, and a highly respected Placenta Encapsulation Specialist serving families across Texas. As Co-Founder and President of the Texas Doula Association, DeAnna is a dedicated advocate for equitable, culturally responsive maternal care. DeAnna is the Founder of DelvaDoulas, where she provides compassionate, Full Spectrum Doula care rooted in dignity, cultural understanding, and respect. With a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Humanities and a Master’s in Business Administration, DeAnna blends clinical knowledge, advocacy, and heart-centered care to support families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery. Guided by her experience as a nurse and a mother, she approaches birthwork and placenta encapsulation with reverence, intention, and strict safety standards.
To reach DeAnna directly email her at DeAnna@txdoulas.org or visit her LinkedIn.
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