Cristelle Hart Singh is Anglo-Swiss and has lived in Kochi for the past 24 years. As a social worker, Cristelle manages DIL SE an NGO which works to prevent and to heal child sexual abuse. She is also a certified Arts-Based Therapy practitioner and teacher working mainly with abused, pregnant teenagers and also with other populations to help them express emotions through arts. Cristelle runs workshops under the name BIANHUA.

Priyanka is a pioneer in birth education within India. She trained in Lamaze, being one of the first Indians to get a twin scholarship to do her course and be certified as a Lamaze Educator from Lamaze International (globally accredited evidence based birth education organization). She co-founded Birthvillage along with Red Miller in 2008. She holds certifications as a Certified Professional International Midwife (USA) and has been honoured with One World Birth Hero Championship : Runner Up in 2011. She has been awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to Mother & Baby” in 2018 at Germany, by Midwifery Today, recognising midwifery leadership and the promotion of birth as a normal life event. She has also been awarded the Best Midwife of the Year 2019 at the International Breastfeeding Conference, India and is also one of the pioneers for water birth in India since 2010.