Susan M. Jenkins is an attorney and birth activist.  A graduate of Columbia Law School and former staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, Susan has represented individual midwives and other health professionals, as well as their professional associations, in her private law practice for more than 30 years. She presently serves as legal counsel for the Big Push for Midwives, which is a national coalition of state grassroots groups that are working for licensure and legal status for community-based midwives; and the California Association of Licensed Midwives.  She is a member (and informal professional mentor) for the recently-organized Birth Rights Bar Association and an advisory board member of Birth Monopoly.