Meet our Providers
Jessica Goldman, CNM
Jessica Goldman is a certified nurse midwife. She received her bachelor's degree and her masters of science in nurse midwifery from Yale University in 1999. Jessica has worked in women's health for over 18 years. She lives locally in Park Slope.
Roseanne Seminara, CNM
Roseanne Seminara is the Director of Midwifery at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist. Before graduating from Columbia University's Nurse Midwife program in 1989, she worked as a registered nurse in Obstetrics, Public Health, Neonatology, and Pediatrics. A lifelong resident of the Park Slope/Windsor Terrace area, Roseanne has been working at NewYork-Presbyterian since 1978.
Donna Pynn, CNM
Donna Pynn is a certified nurse midwife. She earned her master's degree in nurse-midwifery from Columbia University in 1990 and has previously worked as a childbirth educator and registered nurse in labor and delivery.
Elizabeth Arnold-Leahy, CNM
Betsy Arnold-Leahy chooses to help the world, one family at a time. She has been a midwife for over 25 years and in women's health for more than 35 years. After graduating from Columbia University's Midwifery program, Betsy worked for one year at North Central Bronx Hospital and then returned to St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village to start the Midwifery service. When St. Vincent's closed in 2010, Betsy joined Park Slope Midwives, where she enjoys serving the community of families in Brooklyn.
Tanya Sherman, CNM
Tanya Sherman is a certified nurse midwife. She earned her master's degree in nurse-midwifery from Columbia University in 2009 and has experience working in the field of obstetrics, perinatal diagnostics, and labor and delivery.
Shannon Tam, CNM
Shannon Tam graduated from Columbia University's Nurse-Midwifery program in 2003 and has spent 11 years caring for underserved communities in Manhattan and NJ. She most recently worked for seven years in the Metropolitan Hospital Midwifery Service, where she provided full-scope care to an amazing community and polished up her Spanish. Before becoming a midwife, Shannon studied molecular biology and biochemistry at Wesleyan University while focusing on gender studies.
Shara Frederick, CM
Shara J Frederick is a Certified Midwife Specialist in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with honors from the State University Of New York Downstate Medical Center in 2016.
Laura Coogan, CNM
Laura Coogan is a Certified Nurse Midwife. She received a master's degree in Midwifery from SUNY Downstate in 2019. Before working with Park Slope Midwives, she graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Biology. She began working as a registered nurse at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in 2013, first in med-surg and then labor and delivery. She has a certification in lactation counseling and has trained as a doula. She grew up in Brooklyn and is honored to serve families here.
Deirdre, Lehn, CM
Deirdre Lehn has been a midwife since 2018. Her first career was as a union organizer, but after the birth of her first child, she felt called to change paths and become a midwife. She did her education at Yale and SUNY Downstate Medical Center. In 2023, she was thrilled to work with the group as a patient and delivered her third baby with her colleagues at Park Slope Midwives. She is committed to partnering with you to make the best plan for your care together for pregnancy and GYN needs.
Genevra Dilorenzo, CNM
Genevra DiLorenzo is a native New Yorker who has been working with expecting families since 2000. Before working in healthcare, she worked in commercial film production. She got her BA from Sarah Lawrence in 1992, graduated Phillips Beth Israel nursing school in 2006, became an IBCLC in 2012, graduated from SUNY Downstate with a Masters in Nurse Midwifery in 2020.
She worked at Woodhull, Beth Israel, and NYU Langone before coming to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist
She is training for the NYC Marathon and has a son in college.
Jocelyn Baker, CNM
Jocelyn Baker is an advanced practice midwife in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in advanced practice midwifery.
Julia Faidley, CNM
Julia Faidley grew up in Hershey, Pennsylvania, but has called New York City home for the past 30 years. She was drawn to the idea of birth as a healthy and normal life transition and decided to pursue becoming a midwife. During those years, she worked as a labor support doula, raised two children, and spent several years as a hospice nurse. Julia has also contributed as an auditor, a member of the quality and compliance team, and a clinical educator. She graduated from Frontier Nursing University's midwifery program in 2017.
Stephanie Ko, CNM
Stephanie Ko began appreciating the incredible human body through her biology, health, and society studies at Cornell University. She went on to work as a registered nurse, then in 2018, completed her master's degree in midwifery and in women's health and gender-related studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She started her midwifery career with Virtua Medical Group in South Jersey before joining the Park Slope Midwives.
Stephanie was born in Brooklyn and loves how life has come full circle, welcoming beautiful new humans to the world in the very city where her life began.
Danielle Wright, CNM
Danielle Wright is a California native and a Certified Nurse Midwife in New York.
She completed her midwifery education at Columbia University, where she earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in 2022. She also completed her nursing education at Columbia University, where she earned a Master of Science in Nursing in 2020.
Prior to pursuing midwifery, Danielle graduated from San Francisco State University in 2016, where she studied Public Health and minored in both Women's Health and Africana Studies. Following graduation, Danielle became a doula, where she served the communities at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. This is where her passion for women's health and reproductive justice began. This experience, coupled with her education, solidifies the importance intersectionality has within the healthcare system.
Mckenna Eldh, CM
Mckenna Eldh is a Certified Nurse Midwife Specialist in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with honors from the State University Of New York Downstate Medical Center in 2015. Mckenna Eldh affiliates with NewYork Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.