MomNBaby Social Services & Resources - Concurrent Session #1 - Community-Based Services for MomNBabyEXCEL

Mrs. Chelesa Presley, is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Coahoma County Diaper Bank (2016), which later transitioned to the Diaper Bank of the Delta in 2018. Chelsea is also the owner and operator of Early Dawn Birthing Services; Baby Café facilitator of The Lactating Club; and Director of Clarksdale Baby University parenting program. Mrs. Presley serves on the  National Diaper Bank Network Board of Directors. Chelesa is a Certified Lactation Educator (CLE), a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC), and a Certified Madriella Doula.   

Chelesa Presley set a life goal to help women in the Mississippi Delta and the State of Mississippi make informed choices about maternal practices and to encourage young parents along their parenting journey. In 2018, Chelesa and her team won the 2018 Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon Transformation Award for a project to initiate a homeless shelter for pregnant and postpartum women experiencing housing insecurities in the Mississippi Delta.  She received a 2020 GIVE Awards Outstanding COVID-19 Crisis Response by an Individual, Reaching Our Sister Everywhere 2020 Concrete ROSE Award, and the 2021 Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi Maddox Woman of the Year.
 
Mrs. Presley is a member of Anderson Street Church of Christ in Marks, Mississippi.
She is the proud wife of Julian Presley and mother of three children and a proud grandmother. 
Mrs. Presley’s motto is, “Smile, and live a great story because with God in front all things are possible with faith, prayer, and obedience.”

Dudith Pierre-Victor, PhD, MPH, recently joined Jackson State University as Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Behavioral and Environmental Health. Prior to joining JSU, Dr. Pierre-Victor was the Director of Research in the HCA Healthcare /USF Morsani College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Consortium where she mentored and oversaw over 844 medical residents and fellows pursuing scholarly activities. She earned an M.P.H with a concentration in Epidemiology (2011) and a Ph.D. in Public Health (2016), with a concentration in Epidemiology. Dr. Pierre-Victor completed the prestigious Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the NCI’s Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP), which encompasses over 1,000 research sites and 3,500 oncologists. She combined her epidemiology expertise and her health services experience to design and implement research that incorporates quantitative and qualitative methods for the investigation of a broad range of factors contributing to health disparities. Her research interests include comorbidity management during cancer treatment, health disparities, and women’s health.