Jessica is one of the co-founders of the Mothers' Milk Bank of Montana. In 2011, Jessica completed a doctorate in Perinatal Psychology at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute with a focus on the psychological impact of donating milk following a perinatal loss. She wrote a toolkit based on her dissertation that provides healthcare professionals with information about how to address lactation with bereaved mothers. Jessica also worked for two years as the Donor Coordinator at the Mothers Milk Bank in San Jose, CA from 2009-2011. In her spare time, Jessica loves cooking, yoga, and exploring the beauty of Montana with her family.

Colleen Piluso, (she/her) MPA, CNP is a Missoula native, wife, mother, and nonprofit professional. She serves as the Human Resources & Administrative Director at Mountain Home Montana, an organization that provides needed services to young moms and their kids. Colleen is passionate about supporting families and ensuring children have what they need to become healthy and engaged citizens and leaders for thriving, equitable, and safe communities. Colleen loves the mission of Mothers’ Milk Bank of Montana because the focus is rooted in families helping families in such a unique and impactful way. Human milk is a resource and gift unlike anything else. Colleen became involved with the milk bank in 2020 as a milk donor and is honored to now serve on the board of directors. In her free time, she enjoys taking walks and eating out with her husband and two kiddos, grabbing coffee with close friends, de-cluttering and organizing her home, playing volleyball, baking cookies, cuddling with her cat, and watching documentaries.

Amber has been a breastfeeding advocate since she had her first child in 2008. After she had her second child in 2011, she tandem nursed her daughter and son for the next 3 years. She was a gestational surrogate for a singleton in 2016 and pumped and shipped breastmilk to him so he was exclusively fed her breastmilk for an entire year. She carried another surrogate baby in 2019 but because the cost of shipping breastmilk was too costly for the intended parents to take on, she donated her breastmilk to many local families over the course of the year. She has also been a wet nurse for a few friends' babies who were not getting enough breastmilk from their own mothers. Because Amber has a benign tumor on her pituitary gland, she is able to make an abundance of breastmilk and has made breastmilk since she was 11 years old. She can pump about 100 ounces a day while only pumping 3 times a day. Amber is a case manager and lead intake coordinator for Montana Surrogacy, a branch of Bright Futures Families. She lives in Bozeman with her two kids and her fiance. She loves living in Bozeman, hiking, live music, and spending time with her friends and family.

Alla is wife and mother of 4. She works for the State of MT as a Career Development Specialist Supervisor within the Public Assistance Bureau. She is passionate about non profit work, causes that mean something to others, and the health and well-being of families and communities. Alla graduated from the U of M with a double bachelors- one in Applied Health Sciences and the second in Russian. The milk bank is near and dear to her. When her youngest daughter was born a few weeks early, they were able to use donor milk for the first few days of her life.

Leah is a wife, mother and labor and delivery nurse. She is passionate about ensuring that all babies and families have a chance to thrive. Through Leah’s job, she has seen first hand the life changing impacts the Missoula Milk Bank offers to this community. She is grateful to be apart of this incredible team of individuals. In her spare time, she enjoys being with her husband and children, exploring the great outdoors.

Melenie has 25 years of experience in the field of lactation, parent education, and infant sleep support. She and her husband have two grown children, a beautiful granddaughter, and have loved and supported many more children in their home.
In 2018, nominated by her peers, Melenie was awarded the first MT Mother-Baby Breastfeeding Advocacy Award by the Montana State Breastfeeding Coalition for her tireless efforts in community lactation support and advocacy.
Melenie became passionate about healthy sleep for families after hearing the stories of sleep deprivation over and over again from new parents. She dove into the world of infant and postpartum sleep and began working as a night nanny in 2017. As the owner of Goodnight Baby Montana, she has dedicated her career to helping families obtain healthy, happy sleep.

Alyssa is a Speech Language Pathologist and Certified Lactation Counselor. She was born and raised in the beautiful Gallatin Valley. After graduating from high school, she was fortunate to travel and live in a variety of places before settling back in Bozeman. Alyssa graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Montana State University and a Master of Science in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from the University of Montana. Her extensive education and experience working with preemies, newborns, and toddlers gives her the ability to support families experiencing any type of feeding and early language difficulties. Alyssa provides assistance with complex feeding difficulties, including little ones that require tube feedings, oral aversions, transitioning to solids, and those that have swallowing difficulties. Alyssa loves working in early communication with little ones having difficulties with producing sounds, first words and putting words together to effectively communicate. She also is trained in orofacial myology and has assisted both children and adults to improve oral function for breathing, swallowing and eating.

Jazmin was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the mother of 8 amazing kids from 20 years-5 months old. She’s the wife to an amazingly patient man, Brad. She moved her family to Montana to pursue a position at a local birth center. She has worked in the home birth and birth center worlds for 15 years. She helps hundreds of families feed their babies along with having 180 months of breastfeeding and experience with bottle and formula feeding. She’s the owner of frigg Birth & Wellness- a private midwifery practice that supports the families of Gallatin Valley.