Dr. Kimarie Bugg
is the Chief Empowerment Officer (CEO) and Change Leader of Reaching Our
Sisters Everywhere Inc. (ROSE). ROSE’s mission is to train healthcare providers and
community organizations to provide culturally appropriate encouragement, support and
clinical care so that African American mothers will breastfeed at higher rates and sustain
their breastfeeding experience to match the goals expected by the Surgeon General of the
United States. Kimarie has worked in a pediatric emergency clinic, special care nursery and
has been a bedside breastfeeding counselor in a large metropolitan hospital, managed
perinatal and breastfeeding programs at the state level.