My path to midwifery was a meandering one, until it one day fell into my lap from heaven above. In the years prior to entering into the work of birth, I lived my life guided by my love for the natural world, having graduated from UC Davis in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science. While in university, I began to cultivate an interest in food and all of the ways in which it touches our lives. I took courses on food access, food sovereignty, and food politics, which eventually led me back to the earth and the practice of growing food itself. I spent my early twenties working on various organic, regenerative farms with the eventual striving to practice food law with a focus on farm workers’ rights.
In 2016, after having spent half a year traveling throughout Asia, I enrolled in the University of Colorado Boulder School of Law only to withdraw from the program a short two months thereafter. I learned quickly that becoming a lawyer was not for me, and while at the time I did not know where God would lead me, I am forever grateful for the courage that He inspired within me to walk by faith and not by sight. In the summer of 2017, I moved to the middle of nowhere Minnesota to an intentional community designed to support individuals with special needs. There I co-managed a three-cow dairy (all hand-milked!) and deepened my understanding of and relationship to the holistic management of cattle and biodynamic agriculture.
Those eighteen months were especially formative, and in that time I somehow managed to get married and completed a certification in nutritional therapy through the Nutritional Therapy Association. I graduated the program with a desire to work in the preconception space and figured it would be good, then, for me to learn more about the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum continuum. In 2019 I completed two doula trainings, one with the Sierra Childbirth Institute and the other with the Indie Birth Association. Not long after, I was invited to join the Indie Birth Midwifery School and I said “YES!”
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In 2020, my husband and I moved to Washington State where he embarked on a journey of custom butchery and on-farm slaughter while, I, on a journey to become a midwife. I fortuitously found a preceptor who lived just twenty minutes south of me and who was open to taking on a completely green student, and the rest is history! We moved back to California in 2022 during which time I assisted Mackenzie Leeke of Mackenzie Rose Midwifery for one year before becoming pregnant. I gave birth to a beloved baby boy in May of 2023 in my childhood home! Additionally between the years, I worked as the journal editor for the Biodynamic Association and in a group practice of functional nutritionists. In March of 2024, I enrolled in the National Midwifery Institute and committed my heart, my mind, and my life to the vocation of midwifery. I am currently an advanced student midwife having apprenticed with the lovely Heather Baker of Baker Midwifery for the last eighteen months. I am so incredibly blessed to have strong and loving relationships with many midwives in the greater Sacramento area, having assisted many and learned the myriad ways in which midwifery can be and is practiced.
I will be licensed in March of 2026 and am currently taking clients due in April 2026 and beyond under the supervision of Heather L. Baker, LM, CPM!
I continue to practice functional nutrition, specializing in women’s health and pediatrics. I am on a mission to support physiology in a world that is arguably unsupportive to our biological and evolutionary design. I came to know and understand this work intimately, as I have worked diligently in the last five years to overcome various chronic health complications, including mold toxicity. I believe whole-heartedly in the power of functional nutrition and am thrilled to share that I have never felt better. My approach to health is multifaceted, with my personal experience being that balance in the body encourages balance in the mind, soul, and spirit.
In addition to the nutritional and lifestyle counseling that I offer, I bring a focus to the body’s alignment and ways in which one can move functionally throughout one’s day. I have spent many years studying the work of Katy Bowman, biomechanist and founder of Nutritious Movement, and am a certified Body Ready Method Pro, which has equipped me with the tools to support individuals to move in such a way that the soft tissues, and therefore the bony structure of the body, are balanced. This awareness and embodiment can help tremendously to prepare the body for an optimal pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience.
In my free time, that I do not have, I love hiking with my family, reading books, dancing, gardening, practicing traditional/wilderness skills, processing foods, and connecting deeply with family and friends.