Meet Char’ly Snow

CNM

Co-founder, Chief Clinical Officer, Midwife

Char'ly is a Detroit native and proud alumna of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. She was a proud member of the HF team for 16 years, serving in various capacities, including the Director of Midwifery Services before her departure. She is currently a co-founder and the Chief Clinical Officer with Birth Detroit. Birth Detroit’s mission is to midwife safe, quality, loving care through pregnancy, birth, and beyond using the values of safety, trust, love, and justice as our guide. Birth Detroit is the first and only freestanding birth center in the city of Detroit. Birth Detroit’s midwifery team offers exceptional prenatal and postpartum care, labor and birth services, and well-woman annual exams.

She is the 2018 recipient of the Excellence in Leadership and Innovation Award (Formerly known as the Kitty Ernst Award) from the American College of Nurse-Midwives. This award is given to one midwife each year who has been certified for less than ten years, and has demonstrated innovative, creative endeavors in midwifery and/or women’s health clinical care practice, education, administration, or research.

Char’ly is also the founder of Metro Detroit Midwives of Color (MDMOC). MDMOC is a non-profit professional organization, inclusive of all minority midwives that serve women in the Metro Detroit area.  MDMOC is an extension of her commitment to serve the women of Detroit. Char'ly's vision for this organization is to provide providers the opportunity to develop a network that will directly serve the needs of the community through role modeling, community-based initiatives, and seminars. MDMOC will also support the growth and diversification of the profession by serving as mentors for aspiring Midwifery students of color.  Ultimately, all of their efforts will serve to reduce the prevalence of health disparities among ethnic minorities.

She attributes her past and future successes to her faith in God and the support of her loving husband, children, family, and friends.