Gerria Coffee is a Maternal and Child Health expert located in Pennsylvania. She is a 5-time founder balancing her roles as a mother, Doula, Lactation Consultant, Public Speaker, Program Developer, Radio station owner, and on-air personality.
Coffee founded Genesis Birth Services where the mission is to provide culturally competent and equitable support to families often underserved and under-represented populations in pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Gerria Launched the PRISM Program in 2021 providing doula and mental health support women incarcerated in Pennsylvania State Corrections and is the President and Co-founder of the Pennsylvania Doula Commission, co-facilitating efforts to expand access to Doula Care in Pennsylvania and working to improve maternal health outcomes while protecting the Doula profession such as pathways to Medicaid reimbursement for Doulas.
While co-investigating research projects that investigate maternal health equity and co-authoring research papers for academia, Coffee sits on several boards such as the Advisory Board Secretary for Pennsylvania WIC, Pennsylvania Reentry Committee, Pennsylvania Office of Child Development ECCS (Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems). In addition to Gerria’s on air broadcast, she has been featured on several media outlets including BBC, NPR, PBS, Univision and 3-time Webby, 2 Time Emmy Award winning documentary The Ebony Canal. Now nominated for the NAACP Image Award in 2026.