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Interested in board service or committee service? Email [email protected] and visit our USBC Committees webpage for more information. 

Meet Our Board of Directors

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Andrea Serano

​Chair

Tiana Pyles

Chair-Elect

Amy Barcenas

Secretary

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Briana Jegier

Treasurer

Love Anderson

Elected Director

Ifeyinwa Asiodu

Elected Director​

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Porsche Holland-Otunba

Elected Director​

Stephanne Rupnicki

Elected Director​

Angie Sanchez

Elected Director​

Andrea Serano, ​MPH, CHES, CLC, IBCLC

Chair

Andrea Serano, MPH, CLC, IBCLC, CHES, is the Executive Director of Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE), a national nonprofit organization advancing breastfeeding equity and maternal-infant health justice through culturally grounded, community-led solutions. A clinician and public health advocate, Andrea brings extensive lactation experience and systems-level leadership to building sustainable pathways for families – particularly Black families and other communities historically underserved by maternity and lactation care. At ROSE, Andrea helps lead strategy, partnerships, and program implementation, including coordination of trainings, events, and program-related activities that strengthen the national lactation workforce and expand mother-to-mother and peer support models. She is also a key driver of ROSE’s annual summit planning and fundraising efforts, ensuring convenings remain mission-aligned, community-centered, and action-oriented.
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Andrea holds a Master of Public Health from Georgia Southern University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Maternal Child Health with a concentration in Human Lactation from Union Institute and University. In addition, Andrea is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree with a concentration in Diverse Populations and Health Equity from Mercer University. Her professional pathway reflects a rare blend of bedside lactation expertise and public health leadership – supporting families directly while also shaping the systems, policies, and partnerships that determine whether families can access respectful, evidence-based breastfeeding support.
In addition to her leadership at ROSE, she serves as Vice President of the Maternal Child Health Section of the Georgia Public Health Association and the Board Chair of the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She has also served on the board of the Georgia Breastfeeding Coalition.

Complementing her policy and advocacy work, Ms. Serano has provided direct clinical support as a bedside lactation consultant in two Baby-Friendly designated hospitals in the Metro Atlanta area.

Tiana Pyles, MHA, CLC

Past Chair

"I consider the United States Breastfeeding Committee family since I first attended as a presenter for BSTARS; a Cultural Coalition listed with the USBC in 2016. In 2018, I was a recipient of the "Emerging Leader" award at the Eighth National Breastfeeding Conference & Convening. As the Executive Director for the Orange Mound Development Corporation, the Tennessee Breastfeeding Coalition and a co-founder of BSTARS (Breastfeeding Sisters That Are Receiving Support), I understand that to truly help and empower families to be prosperous in their communities, it takes a “circle of support.” This “circle of support” must include family, adequate education and health care, affordable, quality housing options, peer support and good neighbors. I work hard on forging networking partnerships at local, state and national levels in order to better serve the community, city, and state I am vested in and love.

I’m a proud mother of four and come from an unbroken family lineage of breastfeeding mothers. I actively work on bridging the disparities in community development, health care, and breastfeeding in Memphis, Tennessee, and beyond, by helping to create opportunities to support the much needed work. I continue to be entrenched in this work to honor my ancestral heritage and in efforts to leave a good example for my legacy to live by and to be proud of."

Amy Barcenas

Secretary

Amy Barcenas is the founder of Yellowtail Lactation Consultants, LLC and the Bitterroot Doula Collective, serving families in the Denver metro area as an Indigenous Lactation Counselor, full-spectrum doula, and community health worker. An enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Nation, she is pursuing her IBCLC certification and recently organized Colorado’s first Indigenous Lactation Counselor Certification Training. Amy serves as Co-Chair of the Colorado Commission on Indian Affairs Health and Wellness Committee and sits on various USBC committees, including the Conference Program Committee (CPC) and the Awards Committee (AC).

Briana Jegier, PhD

Treasurer

Briana J. Jegier, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of Health Administration & Public Health, Chair of the Community Health Worker Program, and Co-Chair of BHSU HealthCORE at Baptist Health Sciences University. She is the Maternal Child Health Section Past Treasurer, a USBC member representative, and Breastfeeding Forum past Chair for the American Public Health Association. She is a wife and a mother to 3 awesome boys, and is an elected member of the International Society for Research in Human Milk & Lactation.

Love Anderson

Elected Director

Love Anderson is President & CEO and co-founder of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities (BFFC), which supports local and regional breastfeeding coalitions nationwide, including Breastfeed Durham. She chairs the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition and co-founded the SAFE Infant Feeding Team, which strengthens infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E). A Black-Cherokee woman and parent, Love brings lived experience and years of lactation and Medicaid policy work to the board. Her work connects federal and state policy, county implementation, research partnerships, and digital strategy, from IYCF-E language for federal maternal health legislation to a county implementation toolkit with NACCHO. In 2026 she was honored at the Uplifting Black and Brown Lactation Success (UBBLS) conference. On the USBC board, Love works to build systems where culturally rooted lactation support reaches every family, including in times of crisis.​

Ifeyinwa Asiodu, PhD, RN, IBCLC, FAAN

Elected Director

Dr. Ifeyinwa Asiodu is an Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco and leads the MILK Research Lab. Her program of research focuses on identifying and addressing the impact of social and structural determinants of health during the reproductive life course. She has served as a USBC member representative for the American of Public Health Association (APHA) since 2015. During this time, she has served on the USBC’s Conference Planning Committee, CRASH, Finance & Audit Committee, several constellation workgroups, and currently sits on the 5-Year National Strategy Advisory Council. She is an experienced leader, researcher, IBCLC, and equity champion. As a USBC Board member, she wants to strengthen and expand existing breastfeeding policies and advocate for greater protections for all families and communities.

Porsche Holland-Otunba, CLC, C-CBE, PMH-C

Elected Director

Porsche M. Holland-Otunba, CLC, C-CBE, PMH-C is the CEO of Reclaim Black Motherhood (RBM), a perinatal consultancy company. RBM supports perinatal professionals, creates curriculum, and champions research in mental health, lactation, and cardiovascular health. Porsche is a Philly native, wife, and girl mom. As a birth trauma survivor and two-time exclusive pumper she proudly serves her city as a Doula, Childbirth Educator, and Lactation Counselor. She prides herself on championing inclusive decision-making and cultivating partnerships that reflect shared power and purpose.

Stephanne R. Rupnicki, ​CLC, ILC

Elected Director

Stephanne Rupnicki is a recognized member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, a married mother of six, and an Indigenous maternal and infant health advocate residing on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Reservation. She is an elected Director on the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) Board of Directors and has served in leadership with the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition. Stephanne brings more than a decade of experience in lactation, birthwork, community health, and Indigenous family support, with a focus on strengthening systems that honor culture, sovereignty, and the lived experiences of Indigenous families.

Stephanne co-founded and leads the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Breastfeeding Coalition and founded the Indigenous Birthworkers Collective of Kansas, building community-centered networks to support breastfeeding, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum health across Indigenous communities. She serves as a Breastfeeding Peer Counselor and Certified Indigenous Lactation Counselor at the Prairie Band Potawatomi Health Center, where she has helped develop and sustain community-based breastfeeding support since 2018. Her leadership extends nationally through her service on the National Indian Health Board’s Tribal Maternal and Infant Advisory Committee and as a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Center for Indigenous Resilience, Culture, and Maternal Health Equity (CIRCLE) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. CIRCLE is an NIH-funded Maternal Health Center of Excellence focused on understanding and addressing Indigenous maternal health inequities across the Southern Plains. Through these roles, Stephanne contributes Indigenous community knowledge, lived experience, and professional expertise to maternal and infant health initiatives, research, and efforts to improve health and wellness for Indigenous families.

Stephanne’s work has received national and Indigenous community recognition, including the 2019 USBC Tribal Trailblazer Award and the 2022 Indigi-LC Advocacy Award. In 2020, she became the first Indigenous person featured on the cover of the CDC Breastfeeding Report Card. She has also partnered with the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board on initiatives supporting Indigenous parents and infants and received a 2022 CDC Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country subaward to advance breastfeeding visibility, normalize Indigenous feeding traditions, and strengthen community support for families. Across her work, Stephanne is committed to centering Indigenous voices, protecting cultural knowledge, strengthening community-led solutions, and ensuring that Indigenous families are not only represented in maternal and infant health conversations, but are helping shape them.

Angie Sanchez

Elected Director

Angie Sanchez is a citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ojibwe and Odawa. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Her professional background includes extensive experience as a business analyst, where she utilized data to guide decision-makers on optimizing business operations. Following the birth of her son, Angie transitioned her focus to health geography. Her research aims to enhance access to Indigenous-led breastfeeding support resources.