EVERY MOTHER, INC. trainers have extensive experience providing counseling and lactation training throughout the U.S. Trainers are International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) with experience in program coordination and management, as well as training health professionals. Trainers are also experienced in working one-on-one with new families.

Cathy Carothers, BLA, IBCLC, RLC

Cathy Carothers is co-director of EVERY MOTHER, INC, which provides consultation, curriculum development, and training programs in counseling and breastfeeding promotion nationwide. An experienced trainer and speaker, she has provided training programs in nearly every U.S. State. She is Director of Marketing for the International Lactation Consultant Association and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1996. Her previous experience includes: former Training and Outreach Coordinator for Best Start Social Marketing, where she coordinated several national breastfeeding projects; former State WIC Breastfeeding Coordinator for the Mississippi WIC Program; founding president and board chair for the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition; and Media and Marketing Chair for the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She has also served as a university public relations director. She is the mother of 5 breastfed children.

Kendall Cox, BA, IBCLC, RLC

Kendall Cox is co-director of EVERY MOTHER, INC, which provides consultation, curriculum development, and training programs in counseling and breastfeeding promotion nationwide. She is the former Breastfeeding Coordinator for Best Start Social Marketing, and previously worked for the Mississippi State Department of Health WIC Program, managing the peer counseling program and the breastfeeding promotion and support program over a 9-country district. An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and La Leche League Leader, Kendall has coordinated the Mississippi WIC and
La Leche League of Alabama/Mississippi/Louisiana annual "Breastfeeding: The
Gold Standard" Healthcare Provider Seminar. Kendall lived in Botswana, Africa for 3 ½ years where she was a Peace Corps volunteer and a trainer. She and her husband Wade are the parents of breastfed twins.