After many years of diligent efforts asserting that I was NOT headed for midwifery, I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's degree in Women's Health and Midwifery in 2009. As the daughter of a home-birth and birth-center midwife, steeped in New Jersey and Nashville Midwifery culture since my pre-embryonic days, I was fiercely determined to do something radically different. After studying Sociology and Spanish at Skidmore College, I spent a requisite 6 months in "post-college soul-searching mode" in the mountains of Mexico, working as a public-health intern and sex educator. During my time in Mexico, I found myself magnetically drawn to the powerful and wise traditional midwives of the area. After many sleepless and enchanted nights in the small village clinic with a most special midwife, Dona Antonia, I decided to return home, "face the music", and pursue midwifery after all.

Six long years after starting my journey to become a midwife, I am delighted and honored to be part of such a vibrant practice for my first job. As a newer midwife, I am both excited and humbled by the tremendous amount of knowledge and experience that surrounds me in this diverse community of midwives. I have a particular interest in caring for under-served women and hope to work internationally one day.

Outside the realm of midwifery, I love to practice yoga, make music, hike (preferably on trails with wild blueberries), cook feasts for friends, bike around town, tend to my small but industrious garden and swim across Walden pond.