Staff

Monica Esparza

Executive Director
monica@breastfeedingnm.org

About Monica Esparza

Monica Esparza is a CLC and has been serving families as a breastfeeding peer counselor for more than six years, providing peer to peer support to breastfeeding mothers through the WIC program both individually and in the hospital setting. She has served as co-chair of the Greater Albuquerque Area Chapter and on the Board of Directors for the New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force and helped establish the Workplace Liaison Program to support businesses to become Family Friendly. She believes in supporting communities and establishing a supportive system where all families are able to achieve their own breastfeeding goals.

Christine Kamm, CPA

Accountant
christine@breastfeedingnm.org

About Christine Kamm, CPA

Christine Kamm is an accounting professional with over thirty years of experience in financial and regulatory reporting and analysis. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a BS in business administration with a concentration in accounting. She worked in public accounting for the first five years before taking a year off with her first child and went back to work part-time as finance director for YWCA of Albuquerque. In 1999, Christine established a home-based accounting firm, specializing in financial consulting and reporting for small businesses and nonprofit organizations.

Julianna Massa

Program Manager
julianna@breastfeedingnm.org

About Julianna Massa

Siboney A. Rodriguez, LMSW

Core Team Leader
siboney@breastfeedingnm.org

About Siboney A. Rodriguez

Siboney is the proud mother of three amazing boys with over 6 years of combined breastfeeding and thrives on her passion for familial health and bonding. Siboney has been with the NM Breastfeeding Task Force since early 2017 as a Clinical Implementation Specialist and continues to work with hospitals and clinics across our state to improve breastfeeding rates and lactation support foundations. Her other roles are also centered around care and include being an INNATE postpartum care provider, licensed social worker, PAIL advocate, and breastfeeding/baby care educator. Siboney is also the founder of Motherhood Wellness of New Mexico, offering care sourced from traditional practices to facilitate healthy, rebirth of families. Siboney feels inspired to contribute towards the development of communal encouragement and support for breastfeeding and cultivating community wellness.

Jessica Marquez

Core Team Member

jessica@breastfeedingnm.org

About Jessica Marquez

Jessica Marquez loves the idea of helping families reach breastfeeding goals to be healthier. Her passion for breastfeeding began while working as a nutritionist for the WIC Program at her local clinic. She served her community as team leader for two peer counselors, giving her the opportunity to work with breastfeeding needs at different levels. She enjoys sharing her knowledge to assist in normalizing the idea of breastfeeding within all cultures and communities. She has three wonderful kids of her own. Born and raised in the southwest, Jessica is very familiar with those communities. She has bachelor's in community health from New Mexico State University. Jessica has been with the Task Force since October 2016, supporting the southern region and chapters.

Faith Lee

Core Team Member
faith@breastfeedingnm.org

About Faith Lee

Faith (she/they/ella) is a passionate full spectrum doula and lactation educator. Born and raised in the four corners, she loves running, hiking, and foraging along the northwest desert trails, both red and green chile, and the stunningly beautiful view of Shiprock against the brilliant sunsets. She lives with her life partner and her sister, raising a small human, a dog, and lots of plants, all of which bring so much joy to her life. Faith is an imperfect person, just trying her best to express love to herself, others, and all things around her, everyday. She aspires to become a reproductive health specialist nurse practitioner and midwife.

Faith began her journey with the Task Force in 2024 as a new lactating mom attending the Milk & Cookies support group. She quickly became enamored with the organization, its members, its mission, and its purpose in supporting breast/chestfeeding people throughout their lactation experiences. Beginning as a volunteer community member, Faith began a maternity, postpartum, and baby swap meet in collaboration with the Four Corners chapter of NMBTF. She was hired as the North West Core Team Member in January of 2025, and remains ever passionate about improving the reproductive, maternal, and lactation ecosystems throughout her community and the state of New Mexico at large.

Kimberly Smetzer

BFH-BFCI/Lactation Workforce Development
kimberly@breastfeedingnm.org

About Kimberly Smetzer, RN, IBCLC

Kimberly Smetzer, RN, IBCLC, started working with new breastfeeding mothers and after her daughter Tiffany was born. Breastfeeding was much harder than she had imagined and she really thought of giving up. The amazing support she received while breastfeeding her children is the driving force behind where she is today. Since graduating from nursing school in 1999, Kimberly has worked in two countries and four states while accompanying her military spouse. She has had the privilege of working in mother/baby, labor and delivery, and transition nursery positions. Kimberly is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, (IBCLC) and has been able to use that knowledge in all of her positions. Kimberly and her husband moved to Las Cruces in the summer of 2008. Since then, she has worked as a lactation consultant and nurse manager at Mountain View Regional Medical Center with a wonderful group of people that believe in the same principles. They are proud to one of eight baby-friendly hospitals in the state of New Mexico while setting a standard that makes baby-friendly and ten steps to successful breastfeeding the norm rather than the exception.