Born and raised in LA by a single mama who taught me at a young age the truth about “the birds and the bees,” I was surprised by how little my middle school friends knew about their arriving menses. I quickly became an informal bathroom body literacy educator (and I probably taught them some other things their parents didn’t want them to know- oops!).

When I learned at age five that I was born by scheduled cesarean because my older sister was born by cesarean, my mother tells me I was emboldened with a sense of injustice; “Why wouldn’t they let me try to get born?!” I soon began to carry everywhere a coffee table book called A Child is Born and would show any willing stranger in the grocery store a large color photo of a baby crowning. Thankfully, my mom never censored my passion for biology.

My mother and older sister were open with me as a teen about their abortions and I understood from experiencing poverty that termination was a vital healthcare option.

After coming off hormonal birth control in my early 20s, I began offering free “radical menstruation” and Fertility Awareness Method workshops every summer in rural Vermont. In 2013 I started my own doula practice in Boston, MA and I also volunteered as a doula with the Boston Abortion Support Collective and for teen parents giving birth at Brigham and Women’s hospital. In 2013, I went to Guatemala to learn Spanish and had the honor of being hosted by a local midwife in a small village outside of Xela.

In 2016, I started midwifery school at Maternidad La Luz and began training at their high volume birth center on the border between El Paso, TX and Juárez, MX. While there I served hundreds of Juarense families and became passionate about birth on the border.

Upon graduating, I moved with my partner to Puerto Rico, which had just been hit by Hurricane Maria, to be closer to her family. In 2018, I started a midwifery practice with another midwife, Marla Rodríguez Morales, and we offered care for pregnancy loss, birth, and insemination. I also started working with the local abortion doula collective, Las Mingas de Aborto. In 2021 my partner and I conceived with our first attempt at home IUI and I birthed our child at home in 2022. Three months postpartum, I began working in a community midwifery practice with the non-profit organization Caderamen. 

Now that our little one is wanting buddies, we decided to move our family to Tucson, where we have friends and community with kids. Thanks for welcoming me; I hope to be of great service!