Meet our 2019-2020 Board

Fritzi Drosten, IBCLC
President 
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Margaret Kler,  IBCLC
Vice-President + Communications

​Margaret ( Maggie ) Is an IBCLC. Maggie earned her Bachelor in Science from the University of Cincinnati and later attended University of California San Diego for Lactation. Maggie earned her Clinical hours with Healthy Horizons Breastfeeding Centers Inc. She visits with new families in the Burlingame and Menlo Park offices of Healthy Horizons and does in-home visits in the Bay area. 

Janet Dombro
​Membership

I am a mom of five children including twins. More importantly, I have worked with babies and young children since I was a child. I seem to be able to see the world from the baby's perspective and find a way to share that with parents.

Ruth Konoff
Treasurer

Ruth A. Konoff, MS, OTR/L, IBCLC
​Ruth became a Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 2015, after more than 30 years helping babies and young children with a variety of oral-motor, feeding and developmental challenges in her role as a pediatric occupational therapist. Ruth works with families to help them meet their goals for breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and/or feeding expressed milk. She also continues to work as an occupational therapist, serving families with young children who have difficulty with feeding skills or other areas of early childhood development.  Ruth values every family’s unique life experience, and considers it privilege to be part of their parenting journey.

Mary Marine, IBCLC
​Education 

Mary Marine is a Board Certified Lactation Consultant based in East Contra Costa County. She is a mother of three now grown children. La Leche League was her source of information and support with breastfeeding. She wanted to give back the help she received and started volunteering in 1996. Mary enjoyed helping others with breastfeeding so much that she prepared to take the IBCLC exam in 2002. She has a BA in Health and Safety Studies from Cal State LA and MA with a focus in Lactation Consulting from Union Institute and University. She works at Contra Costa Medical Center in the postpartum unit, in clinics seeing babies during their initial doctor visits and does home visits. 

Molly Brannigan, IBCLC
​Secretary

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Megan Wood, IBCLC
​Past President
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Megan’s passion for maternal health was born 16 years ago along with her first pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding experience. Since giving birth to her daughter in 2002, she has been a birth doula, a midwifery student, a midwife, a postpartum doula, a lactation intern, a board-certified lactation consultant with a small private practice, and in 2018, a perinatal health educator at a major hospital and board president for BALA. She is excited to play a role in bringing together lactation professionals from all around the Bay Area to network and share in continuing education opportunities. ​