Devin Bailey-Nicholas, affectionately known as Divine, is a charter member of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society-Louisiana Chapter. She is a cultural worker with a focus on Black folk healing and Black midwives in the South. In 2012, Bailey-Nicholas founded Community Birth Companion , a nonprofit in St. Landry Parish.

Bailey-Nicholas serves as the executive director and works toward lowering infant and maternal mortality rates among low-income mothers through childbirth education, breastfeeding promotion and community doulas.

She is also a certified lactation counselor, maternal-child community health worker, student-midwife and doula trainer. Currently, she's the local ambassador for the National Perinatal Task Force and member of Healthy St. Landry. She lives with

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