Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship

We are pleased to report that recipients of the Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship are beginning their third year of our Bachelor of Science in Midwifery program. Two recent recipients, Gezelle and Lavondria, like all our scholarship students, have been guided and encouraged by Mercy In Action's Scholarship Coordinator, who sets them up for success by holding monthly live mentoring meetings and providing accountability to their studies. Many prospective midwives take advantage of our Mentoring Track for Black and Indigenous students in our college.

Claudia Booker, who this scholarship is named after, was the Grand Challenge Coordinator for Mercy In Action College of Midwifery’s scholarship program at the time of her death in early 2020. Claudia envisioned and created the Mentoring Track. Now that role has been passed on to a graduate of our program, Sumayya, and we are proud to offer this memorial scholarship in Claudia’s name, and to continue the Mentoring Track in her honor.

All the staff at Mercy In Action College of Midwifery, and all the students who benefit, are grateful beyond words for you, our donors, who help many aspiring midwives to become CPM's and Licensed Midwives to serve their own communities.

For more information on Mercy In Action College of Midwifery's Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship, go to: https://www.mercycollegeofmidwifery.edu/scholarships

Once again we have an exciting graduation to celebrate.  Mercy In Action's Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship was awarded to Che under the Grand Challenge that Vicki, Jenny, and Claudia created, and in June of this year, Che made us all proud when she graduated with a Bachelor Of Science degree in Midwifery from our Mercy In Action College of Midwifery! 

Che is now practicing as a midwife in Arizona, and has already set up a sweet clinic space to see clients. She is proving to be a leader in her community, and is currently working in collaboration with doctors, nurses and doulas to create a wellness center focusing on birth in the area around Phoenix.

Your support of this scholarship fund continues to make high-quality midwifery education available to future midwives as our students work toward the end goal of improving the health and health care of vulnerable families around the time of pregnancy and childbirth.

Thank you on behalf of all our student recipients and the families they serve.