Khefri Riley, CLEC, CPYT, HCHD

Khefri Riley CLEC, CPYT, HCHD, is Co-Founder and Director of Frontline Doulas, a perinatal health program connecting Black doulas to Black families, recently featured on PBS, BET and CBS. She is also Director of Impact and Development of the Los Angeles County Medi-Cal Doula Hub. Khefri served as member of the Co-Design Advisory Team for the California DHCS Medi-Cal Doula Benefit Stakeholder Workgroup, and now she serves on DHCS’s Doula Core Workgroup, California's Doula Learning and Action Collaborative and California's Doula Labor Table Project. Her foray into the world of babies has its inspiration from her paternal great-grandmother, an African-Indigenous grandmother midwife from the Deep South. Khefri brings over 20 years’ experience as a maternal-child advocate, prenatal yoga expert, certified lactation educator counselor, birth and postpartum doula, doula trainer, newborn care/childbirth educator and Hypnobabies “hypnodoula.” She has attended more than 300 births at all major hospitals in Los Angeles County, and she has taught thousands of pregnant families the joys of intuitive physiological birth and postpartum practices.