I was born and raised in California - the Central Valley, Central Coast, and I've lived in Mendocino County, land of the Pomo tribes, for the last 24 years. I am a mother, sister, partner, educator, herbalist, and Xicana midwife. I wasn't raised knowing about midwifery, and I didn't imagine having my own babies at home until just a few years before I became pregnant with my first baby. Honestly, at first I thought the idea was out of this world! 

     In my youth, I would often have dreams of healers giving me limpias and baños with herbs before I ever learned anything about it. I became curious about and searched out any information I could find on Curanderas, and eventually in a spiral fashion, through learning about herbs, healing modalities, that search would eventually lead me to Midwifery. 

     Home birth and midwifery care skipped only one generation in my family since the beginning of time. My parents, and their parents, and their parents' parents were born at home with midwives. My siblings and I were born in the hospital. 

     Reclaiming Partería began with my own healing work, and birthing experiences. I birthed both my babies at home, one with a midwife, and the other unassisted into my partner’s hands. These experiences were incredible, challenging, and would deeply influence how I move through the world, how I draw on my power, my intuition, and how I trust. 

     For about a decade before steping solidly onto the midwifery path, I led groups in embodiment practices, drumming, journeying, rites of passage, and transformation. Facilitating these groups, my own healing journey, and my own powerful birth experiences led me to midwifery. I am very comfortable assisting in the liminal, in-between spaces. I always feel a great privilege to care for folks, and to bear witness to transformation and the process of becoming. I view pregnancy and birth as a ceremony, as a sacred journey, and do my best to honor this process, and offer my help and guidance when needed. 

     I love it when birth givers are actively engaging in this process, in whatever ways they view and experience this transformation, I'm here for it. I am committed to informed choice, embodied consent, and the autonomy of peoples' bodies throughout the course of their pregnancies, birth and postpartum. I love seeing people become parents, women become mothers, and babies being welcomed by thier families. I am overjoyed to get to walk along and assist birth givers and their families as they give birth to new life.  

     I feel a calling to do outreach to families who may have been cut off from their lineage, who may not have access to midwifery care, and who are a mere step away from reclaiming their birthright to bring life into the world, autonomously, physiologically, and aligning to their will.

     In another related role, I serve as the Academic Director at National Midwifery Institute, a midwifery school training the next generation of midwives. The course of study & training they offer is closest to traditional models of how midwives were created, that is - study and apprenticeship in community with experienced midwives as their mentors. This role too is one of midwifing students into transforming and becoming. Basically, I love midwifery, the peace, transformation, and healing it has to offer humanity.