Karie E. Stewart, MPH, CNM, FACNM is a practicing Certified Nurse Midwife with the University of Illinois Mile Square Health Centers and the University of Illinois Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She has been a midwife for 6 years and is the current President of the ACNM Illinois Chapter Affiliate.

She has been a full-scope midwife for 6 years and is the current President of the ACNM Illinois Chapter Affiliate. She received her master’s in nursing from the University of Illinois Chicago and her master’s in public health at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Stewart has been newly inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in 2023.

She started a nonprofit organization in 2019 known as Melanated Midwives which aims to financially support BIPOC student midwives through their midwifery training programs with the goal of diversifying the midwifery workforce.

Stewart specializes in family planning, including contraception management; birthing alternatives, education, and options; group prenatal care; and breastfeeding. She is passionate about Black maternal health, racial-concordant prenatal care, and reproductive justice and health.

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