Meet Your Track Presenters

Anna Blair – PhD, IBCLC, CLC, ALC

Anna is the Director of Academic Programs at Healthy Children Project’s Center for Breastfeeding. As a lactation care provider, Dr. Blair works in a community-based lactation center answering a breastfeeding warmline for three counties and offering face-to-face visits. Dr. Blair spent nearly two decades in academia in addition to her work in clinical practice and research. She is the author of numerous books and research articles.

Kajsa Brimdyr – PhD, CLC, ALC

Kajsa is an experienced ethnographer, researcher and international expert in the implementation of continuous, uninterrupted skin-to-skin in the first hour after birth. She is a published author and the award-winning director of The Magical Hour: Holding Your Baby for the First Hour After Birth and the groundbreaking DVD Skin-to-Skin in the First Hour after Birth: Practical Advice for Staff after Vaginal and Cesarean Birth. Her current research involves using video ethnography to change practice in hospital settings to improve continuous skin-to-skin for the first hour.

Karin Cadwell – PhD, RN, FAAN, ANLC, CLC, IBCLC

Karin has worked in the field of breastfeeding and human lactation for more than 50 years. Dr. Cadwell is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and counsels breastfeeding mothers at the Center for Breastfeeding, a community-based lactation clinic on Cape Cod. She is the author of numerous books and research articles.

Barbara O’Connor – BSN, ANLC

Barbara O’Connor, BSN, ANLC, holds a degrees in both education and nursing. She authored the Grandmothers’ Tea Project and has co-authored a text as well as several reports, studies and trainings in the field of breastfeeding and human lactation. In her professional career, Barbara has worked in a variety of positions including maternal-child health nurse, school nurse, WIC coordinator and assessor for Baby-Friendly USA. For more than 20 years, Barbara has worked as an educator both nationally and internationally with the Healthy Children Project. She currently serves as a competency evaluator for the LCTC and also is part of numerous other programs at the Healthy Children Project.

Kristin Stewart – BS, CLC

Kristin has been teaching the art of communication for over 20 years with an expertise in non-verbal communication. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University in Political Science and has had a long and varied career involving travel, performance, and teaching. Kristin has been working with Healthy Children Project’s Center for Breastfeeding since 2009 and is fascinated by the unspoken communication in the breastfeeding dyad. Kristin is a lactation counselor at the Center for Breastfeeding.