Emma is a Consultant midwife in South Wales, and currently (2023-2025) Chair of the Consultant Midwife Cymru group. She has jointly published two books on women’s experiences, and has contributed to multiple others. She has published in midwifery and nursing journals and has won multiple awards including an Iolanthe Award, RCN Midwifery & Children nurse/midwife of the year, RCM midwife for Wales and many more. Emma is passionate about the experiences of women and birthing people, human rights in childbirth, physiological birth, positive work place culture and how civility saves lives, equality, diversity and inclusion, Global midwifery, and ‘everything midwifery’. She has presented locally, nationally and globally including Toronto, Krakow, Prague, Ethiopia, Bali and Riyadh. In 2000, Emma won a Millennium scholarship to travel to Japan to explore breast feeding experiences and relate them to the experiences of teenage mothers in the Welsh valleys. In 2018, she completed an RCBC FiR fellowship on FGM, exploring the experiences of midwives supporting women and birthing people with FGM. She is a founding trustee of the charity midwives@ethiopia supporting Ethiopian midwives with training and development. Emma has led a project to optimise the support and counselling around physiological breech birth, a volunteer project where mothers who speak English as an additional language offer befriending, information sharing and support to other mothers, and was the Research Associate on the national project ‘Your Birth We Care’ (Welsh Government, 2017). Emma was a teenage mother having her first child, and describes one of her proudest moments as getting her first Consultant midwife role on her daughter’s 30^th birthday. She feels honoured to be awarded with a FRCM and is proud to be an advocate for midwives, MCSWs and the women, birthing people and families we support.