Meet the Team

Julie is a U.S. Air Force spouse, Registered Nurse, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and proud mother of three children. Prior to having children, she worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) nurse for five years. In 2015, Julie earned her Master’s degree in Nursing Education from Penn State, her alma mater. While stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Julie worked as Nurse Home Visitor for the Army New Parent Support Program. During this time, she became a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) and began to volunteer with Mom2Mom KMC which ignited a passion to help families with their breast/chestfeeding goals.

When her family received orders to Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, Julie saw a huge need for education, advocacy, and support in the area. During the quarantine period of the COVID pandemic, Julie established Mom2Mom Tribase UK (supporting Mildenhall, Lakenheath, and Feltwell installations) and built the group from virtual meetings to in-person cafes, conquering frequent lockdowns and restrictions.

The birth of her third child brought about some unexpected medical issues that required the finesse of navigating feeding a newborn with pre- and post-surgical considerations. Julie has had tongue tie revisions on all three of her children due to various reasons, including poor weight gain, solid food feeding aversions, and cracked nipples. She is passionate about empowering families and children and is excited to join the Global MilCom team with a focus on evidence-based education to all chapters. Julie and her family are currently stationed in Tampa, Florida and enjoying the warm weather sun!

Kelly Quinn has been volunteering with Global MilCom (formerly Mom2Mom Global) since 2019. She is in the Army Reserve and has almost 24 years of military service. Kelly believes in taking care of servicemembers and their families in a holistic manner and she is a strong advocate for pregnant and postpartum servicemembers. Over the past several years, she has worked to change DOD-wide policies. Some of her accomplishments in this area include the authorization of the lactation undershirt (now approved in all military services), the pending Army procedure to issue the lactation undershirt as an optional clothing item with the maternity duty uniform, and the Army waiver to TB MED 530 that authorizes breastmilk storage in DFAC refrigeration. Most recently, Kelly co-authored the white paper and participated in the HQDA directed working groups that analyzed the white paper which led to the publication of the Army’s Parenthood, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Directive. She also assisted with the drafting, editing, and social media roll-out of this directive.

Kelly has two daughters and works as a nurse care manager in the primary care clinic at the Des Moines IA. She also helps admin the Facebook group The Army Mom Life.

Fiona is from California and is a former military spouse. She gave birth to her son while stationed overseas in Okinawa, Japan. The start to her breastfeeding journey was complicated by eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, retained placenta, and an extended postpartum hospital stay (among other things). Her son was initially fed with human breastmilk substitutes but over the first two months postpartum Fiona worked to increase her supply to be able to switch to exclusively pumping. When her son was three months old he started successfully latching and they were able to transition to exclusive breastfeeding. Her son is now almost four years old and still happily nursing.

Her early difficulties lead her to volunteer as Program Director for the new Mom2Mom Okinawa chapter until she PCSed to Oklahoma where she transitioned to volunteering for Mom2Mom Global, assisting with sponsorships and fundraising. After a two-year break to focus on family and a move back to California she, is excited to rejoin Global MilCom to focus on development and fundraising. She studied medical anthropology and global health in college and feels that supporting parents on their lactation journeys is an impactful way to address so many complex issues: maternal and infant morbidity and mortality, economic growth and stability, and climate change to name a few.

Nicole became a mom in 2010 after a very difficult delivery and breastfeeding initiation. At that time access to skilled support was very limited, especially in the area she was living. She was not working in the birth world, but had always been really interested in birth and breastfeeding, so she started taking classes to become a lactation counselor, and although she revisited lactation on and off for the next decade, she did not formally certify as an LC until 2020 right before the pandemic. At that time she knew she wanted to be an IBCLC eventually, and so COVID was the perfect opportunity to pivot professionally.

She married her Air Force husband in 2018, and then PCSd to KMC in summer of 2020 which is where she first got involved with Global MilCom. There she was part of the on-call lactation support rotation, completed a nine-month internship at LRMC, and taught classes for the New Parent Support Program.

In 2023 she became an IBCLC. She also holds dual masters degrees, MPH and MAEd, and is certified to teach childbirth education and in perinatal mental health.

She currently lives in Florida with her family and has a small private practice serving her community.

Morgan is a mom to two, a military spouse, an avid fantasy book reader, and a lover of being outside. She holds a degree in Health Education, became a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) in 2017, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) in 2020, and a Postpartum Doula in 2022. She loves to continually learn and grow. He primary goals as a community lactation consultant are to bridge the gap of lactation disparity, provide support to those who lack it, and empower through education to make each journey successful. Morgan is the KMC Military Lactation Community Program Director.

Emily is a U.S. Air Force Veteran and military spouse. After the birth of her first child, she realized how important lactation knowledge and support was and started her lactation education journey. In 2018 she received her certification as a Breastfeeding Specialist. After several military moves and three more children, Emily volunteered as the Ambassador for the Ellsworth Air Force Base Military Lactation Community in South Dakota chapter and received her Military Lactation Counselor (MLC) certification.

Selina is passionate about building community and supporting families in their infant feeding journeys. A mother of three, she was fortunate to nurse until natural weaning age after a rocky start. This experience began her journey to become a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC), and later on a Military Lactation Counselor (MLC) and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).

In 2014, she began facilitatinglactation support meetings with The Lactation Connection in Grafenwoehr, Germany which later became the Bavaria chapter of Global MilCom. In 2017 she transitioned into the role of Social Media Manager and now supports outreach initiatives.

She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Augusta State University and holds a graduate certificate in International and Domestic Emergency Management from Hawaii Pacific University. She continues to expand this education with a focus on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies. Her spouse is in the U.S. Air Force.

Amy was the longest running active participant in Mom2Mom history. She became a Peer Mentor in the Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC), Germany in 2008. In 2010, she accepted an invitation to expand Mom2Mom KMC’s breastfeeding advocacy and outreach in the local community. Amy was the first ever Community Outreach Director for Mom2Mom KMC, and helped to shape the organizational structure and mission.

She served on the inaugural KMC Board of Directors until 2014. In 2015, the KMC Board determined the need for a larger parent organization to support new chapters at other military communities, and Amy accepted the responsibility for creating Mom2Mom Global®, a national nonprofit network of support and advocacy for breastfeeding military families, eventually taking the position of Executive Director. In March 2021, after over a decade of service to breastfeeding military families, she transitioned from Executive Director to Advocacy Manager.

Amy has been a presenter at international lactation conferences and published articles and essays on peer breastfeeding support for military families. She is a founding member of the Military Breastfeeding Coalition working group and the U.S. World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) working group. She served as the Board Treasurer for the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee. Amy is the wife of a U.S. Army Reservist stationed in Germany and she breastfed all four of her children.