Sherita Henry
Incoming co-chair
Neyssa Sealy
Incoming co-chair
Carrie Snyder, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC
Access to Care Chair
Carrie Snyder is from Sussex County, Delaware. She received her BSN from the University of Delaware and her MSN from Wilmington University; she is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Georgetown University. Ms. Snyder became board certified by the ANCC as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2008. She began her nursing career as a Critical Care Nurse. Her experiences as an FNP include primary care, pediatrics, school-based wellness centers, walk-in clinic, and her current role as the Service Line Nurse Navigator for Beebe Healthcare. With a passion for women’s health and a focus on treating the whole person mind and body, she became certified by Postpartum Support International in Perinatal Mental Health in 2021. Ms. Snyder serves as the chair of the Health Committee for the Sussex County Health Coalition. She also serves on the Fetal-Infant Mortality Review Committee for the State of Delaware. She is the appointed representative on the Medical Executive Staff at Beebe Healthcare for all Advanced Practice Providers.
Megan O’Hara, LCSW, PMH-C
Member at Large
Megan O’Hara is a licensed clinical social worker for Christiana Care’s Center for Women’s Emotional Wellness (CWEW) where she specializes in the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and has helped with developing CWEW’s integrated care model. She is also the State of Delaware’s first Perinatal Mental Health Certified (PMH-C) clinician and the 2021 Governor’s Compassionate Champion Award Recipient for her work on implementing Trauma Informed Care initiatives in healthcare service. She chaired the annual Climb fundraising and awareness campaign in 2018 and aided in drafting the bill to acknowledge May 5th as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day. Ms. O’Hara earned a Master’s degree in clinical social work from Widener University in 2003 and completed her clinical training with sexual abuse survivors. Prior to joining Christiana Care in 2007, Ms. O’Hara worked extensively treating women and families effected by sexual abuse and intimate partner violence and is a proponent of trauma-informed care. In Ms. O’Hara’s current role, she provides assessments, education, and treatment to women and their families who are at risk for or experiencing perinatal mood disorders. Ms. O’Hara is involved in ongoing program development for the Center for Women’s Emotional Wellness, provides clinical supervision to graduate students and provides professional
education and consultation, including sitting on the Maternal Mortality Review Board.
Jimena Jolley, APRN, WHNP-BC
Member at Large
Jimena Jolley is a board member of PSI Delaware, with over 10 years of experience in maternal-child nursing. Ms. Jolley works as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner at Westside Family Healthcare providing care to women through their reproductive years and beyond. Originally, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she strives to provide bilingual culturally competent care in both English and Spanish. She is passionate about perinatal mental health and increasing access and resources to moms in Delaware.
Katie Goemaat, LCSW, CD, SBD, CBE
Member at Large
Katie Goemaat is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of DE. She is currently employed as a Senior Social Worker and Gender Therapist / Specialist at Christiana Hospital’s outpatient behavioral health program. Ms. Goemaat became interested in perinatal mental health after working as a doula for five years. She is trained as a bereavement doula and is passionate about helping transgender people grow their families.
K. Starr Lynch, RNC-OB, BSN
Member at Large
K. Starr Lynch has worked in maternal/child nursing since 1989. She is currently a Senior Nurse Manager for Women and Children’s Services at Bayhealth Hospital, responsible for the day-to-day operations including the management of staffing, supplying, billing and budget for this community-based hospital. She has advanced skills in providing support to parents of infants with profound birth defects and palliative newborns, and previously worked in the world’s first birth facility exclusively for mothers carrying babies with known birth defects, where she provided nursing for Laparoscopic and Open Fetal surgery. Ms. Lynch is fluent in Spanish and has experience working in diverse communities. She is also published on the topic of Universal Postpartum Screening.
Laura Nastase Najemy, Esq
Policy and Legislation Chair
Ms. Najemy is an attorney in the State of Delaware. She volunteers with the Delaware Lawyers Assistance Program, where she specializes in part on assisting attorneys experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She is a passionate advocate of the destigmatization of PMADs, and brings legislative advocacy experience to the Board, as she spearheaded the recognition of May 5, 2021 as Maternal Mental Health Day by the Delaware Legislature. Laura is also an advocate for mindfulness and meditation practice through textile arts. She graduated from the University of Southern California and Fordham Law School.
Shawnisha Thomas
CLC
Nicole Draper
Comms Co Lead
Sunny Benjamin
Volunteer Engagement Lead
ToriAnne Yetter
Treasurer
