Board of Directors
President
Rikki Jenkins, Doula, IBCLC
Rikki Jenkins (she/her) lives in Las Vegas with her husband, daughters, and fur baby. She is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, First Aid/ CPR/AED certified with Red Cross, Evidence Based Birth® Instructor, and a Bachelors of Science in Maternal Child Health with an emphasis in Human Lactation. She loves to host support groups, teach classes to expectant parents, and birth professionals. She provides all-inclusive services to expectant families and birth professionals in the greater Las Vegas Valley and surrounding areas.
Vice-President
Brittni Lents BS, IBCLC, ALC
Brittni Lents (she/her) lives in Las Vegas with her husband Stephen and their four children. Brittni has her bachelor’s degree in Maternal Child Health with an emphasis in Human Lactation and Social Justice. Her breastfeeding struggles and triumphs led her to pursue a career in the field of lactation. Brittni holds the designation of International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Advanced Lactation Consultant. She is the breastfeeding coordinator at Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada WIC and the volunteer director of the Nevada Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation. Brittni is also a founding board member of the Kijiji Sisterhood, a nonprofit aimed at improving birth outcomes and breastfeeding rates in women of color.
Treasurer
Cristina Hernandez, MPH
Cristina Hernandez (ella/she/her), was born and raised in Las Vegas and her people come from Mexico and Cuba. She graduated from UNLV with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2005, graduate certificate in Women's Studies in 2012, and in 2020 received her Master’s degree in Public Health. Her professional paper topic was on lesbian and trans men’s pregnancy, birth experience, and birth outcomes based on provider (i.e. OB/GYN, Midwife, and Nurse Practitioner) and setting (i.e. hospital, home, and birth center). She has been a doula since 2017, a certified childbirth educator since 2018, and certified as a full spectrum doula via Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings (BADT). Currently, she is a Project Manager for EARN-FS (Early Responsive Nurturing Care for Food Security) at the UNLV School of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Health. This project is researching maternal and child health & nutrition within the West Las Vegas Promise Neighborhood.
Board Advisor
Colette Moore BSN, RN, IBCLC
Colette wholly believes in the mission of the breastfeeding coalition to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. She has been a member of the coalition since 2006, the year she earned her
first certification credential in lactation. She became an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) in 2015 and joined the SNVBC board in 2017. Colette worked with newborns and their
families as a Registered Nurse, and later as an RN program coordinator and lactation specialist, at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada for over 35 years. With a background in newborn
intensive care and community outreach and education her passion has always been helping families to get off to a healthy start. Whether working in community outreach or counseling families in support groups or at home, Colette believes that providing education and support helps families build confidence in their journey towards
meeting their breastfeeding goals. Colette, a Las Vegas “native” since 1975, is married to a true Las Vegas native. They raised their family here and have 5 grandchildren who are 5th generation Nevadans.
