About Erin Stieber
At a 2014 spring conference, Erin Stieber, then affiliated with an organization she referred to as "small train," spoke about her involvement with the Core group. She described the group as "one of the most inspirational groups of people" she had met in the maternal and child health space. Stieber stated that she first attended a meeting three years prior and was inspired by the attendees' enthusiasm and the diversity of issues covered, including nutrition, child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and disabilities.
Stieber said the group provided a "unique and safe space" where participants felt no sense of competition and were focused on sharing knowledge to improve programs. She noted that her organization began utilizing nutrition resources from the group to help develop field programs. Stieber expressed that she felt inspired each time she attended the meetings.
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I come to Core group meetings because I think it is one of the most inspirational groups of people I've met in this space. I came to my first meeting about three years ago, and I was so inspired by basically how excited everyone was about what they're doing, how amazing all of the programs they're doing are, and they cover such a diverse group of issues that are important to maternal and child health. So there was such a wealth of information, but also such a large community of people that were willing to share what they were doing and help other people understand maybe how to do their programs better. So when I came three years ago, I knew that it was a community that I wanted to be a part of, and I've come every year since then to both the spring and the fall meetings and have just really loved becoming a part of the community and meeting so many great people and learning so many important things about what's really important to be doing to work in this space.
I think that this is a really unique community in that there are so many people doing so many different things and in such a space that can get so siloed. For us to be able to bring groups that work on nutrition and child health and communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases and disabilities, and to really tie all of those important issues together in one place, and to do it with a group of people that don't feel any sense of competition but truly just want to make the world a better place and share what they've learned, I think it's a really unique and safe space. And I'll just also say that one of the things that I think is really valuable that comes out of this space too, with all that collaboration, is amazing resources. One of the things that we really started to utilize when I joined the group at my organization at Small Train is the amazing nutrition resources which really help us learn how to develop programs in the field. So I think it's really just been a great space for us to be in, and certainly for me, I feel inspired every time I come.
