Annette Cycon co-founded MotherWoman, Inc. in 1999 with Gabrielli
LaChiara. She is currently MotherWoman's Program Director. Cycon
received a BS in Psychology from Clark University and a Masters of Social
Work from Catholic University. She has designed and facilitated mothers?
support groups and workshops for over ten years. She designed and
facilitates MotherWoman?s Postpartum Stress Support Group and the
legendary MotherWoman group at the Amherst Family Center. She has
facilitated groups for at-risk teen mothers at North Quabbin EvenStart in
Orange, MA, and for mothers in the Vermont prison system. Prior to
founding MotherWoman she was a Child and Family Therapist at
Franklin/Hampshire Community Mental Health (ServiceNet) and lead
facilitator of Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Groups at The Every
Woman's Center, UMass. She has extensive experience working with dual
diagnosis patients, mothers experiencing maternal depression and anxiety,
incest survivors, and low income mothers. She is the mother of two
teenage daughters.
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Meguey Baker is the facilitator of the drop-in MotherWoman group at the Greenfield Pre-school
Center, a co-facilitator of the drop-in MotherWoman group at the Amherst Family
Center, a graduate of the MotherWoman facilitator training program and the website administrater. She has a BA in American Women's History from Hampshire College.
She has over 20 years experience in group leadership and creating transformative space. She's been
playing with fabric, ritual,
and various code programs (although not usually together) for many years, and has two boys
in elemetary school and one baby boy.
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Melanie DeSilva is Executive Director of MotherWoman, Inc. She is -first
and foremost- the mother of two fiery, spirited and kind little girls.
She has a MA in Communication and a BA Summa Cum Laude from
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. DeSilva is the former Director
of Programs and Coordinator for Health Care Development for the Albert
Schweitzer Institute, and former co-owner of Labor of Love: Childbirth
Education for Thinking Women in CT. Under her leadership, MotherWoman,
Inc. has undergone an incredible transformation, increasing organizational
and financial capacity, securing grant awards, establishing long-term
collaborations, creating and expanding programs, developing its Board of
Directors, increasing volunteers, and generating valuable public exposure.
She is herself a graduate of MotherWoman's? programs.
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Liz Friedman, MFA has 15 years of experience facilitating support and
empowerment groups within diverse communities and with mothers, including
mothers with postpartum depression. She is the founder of two mother's
support and action organizations: Mamas and the Family Think Tank of
Rhode Island. She currently leads a mothers support group in Amherst, MA
and is on the Parent Advisory Board of the Amherst Family Center. She
is the co-faciliate of MotherWoman's postpartum stress support group in Northampton, MA.
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