Ebonie Bailey, CD(DONA)
Co-Founder/President of Iowa Black Doula Collective

Ebonie Bailey CD(DONA) founded Naturally Ebonie Doula Services in 2015, after experiencing firsthand the transformative support and care of a doula throughout her birthing journey with her third child. She believes that birth work is soul work, and, as a doula, she has channeled her natural gift of nurturing into support for women and families before, during, and after the miracle of birth. Ebonie has given birth to five children of her own and has helped countless others to navigate labor, delivery, and their postpartum experiences. 

In addition to her work as a mother, doula, and business owner, Ebonie now fights for expanded access to holistic birth care as the co-founder and President of the Iowa Black Doula Collective. At the time of its founding in 2020, Ebonie and the co-founders of the Collective were among the first certified doulas of color in the state of Iowa, amidst increasingly disproportionate rates of fertility, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum complications among Black mothers. Subsequently, IBDC’s mission is fostering “birth work centered in blackness,” and the Collective takes an integrative approach to meeting the needs of Black bodies, families, and communities. Mothers and families engage with the Collective via educational resources, mentorship, and support groups, while the Collective simultaneously seeks to diversify the doula workforce in Iowa via training and funding for aspiring doulas of color.  

Ebonie acts as a mentor to these doulas, connecting birthing families throughout Iowa to their services and fostering their passion for holistic reproductive health as they contribute to the work of the Iowa Black Doula Collective. She is an advocate for compassionate, affordable health care in Iowa, having attended her first health care legislative forum in 2011, and she is currently in training to become a Certified Lactation Counselor.  

Ebonie is an Alumna of University of Arkansas Pine Bluff and St Ambrose University. She resides in Georgia with her husband and five children.