Suzanne Wertman is a nurse-midwife and an advocacy and health policy consultant. She has over twenty-five years’ of experience providing midwifery care to people of all ages and backgrounds in public, private, and non-profit settings, most recently at Planned Parenthood in Wilmington. She has taught student nurse-midwives, resident physicians, and nurse practitioner students at East Carolina University, New Hanover Regional, and UNCW.

Suzanne has been active in advocacy and leadership throughout her career. She currently serves on the steering committee for the Wilmington Greater Downtown Plan and volunteers with the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force, ILM for Peace in Palestine, and New Hanover for All. In 2014, she was named the Legislative/Political Nurse of the Year by the NC Nurses Association, and she’s completed fellowships at the American Nurses Association and Duke University in Advocacy and Leadership. She has organized nurse-midwives across the country, trained college sexual health peer educators, educated parents about talking to their kids about HIV/AIDS, prepared parents for childbirth, founded a hospital-based volunteer doula program, and facilitated trauma-informed discussions about racism and anti-racism with Healing Your Almond.

She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Pennsylvania. Wilmington has been her home since 2006. She lives here with her nearly grown son and her favorite dog.