Chicanx/Indigenous Mexican
She/Her/Ella
Marinah V. Farrell identifies as a first generation two-spirit Chicanx/Indigenous daughter of a medicine woman from Chihuahua, Mexico, and mother to mixed race children including Mexican, Pascua Yaqui and Irish/English descent.
Marinah is active in multiple public health initiatives and coalitions within her community and at the national and international levels. Her background includes diverse activism such as street level medic work and immigration activism in Arizona, clinical/government policy work in Mexico and Africa, organizational development and facilitation in the U.S and Mexico with various non-profits, AI/AN/indigenous health justice work, and as a founding board member of a free clinic for immigrant families, Phoenix Allies for Community Health.Marinah is passionate about advocating for traditional and community healers and has worked as a staff midwife for birth centers and medical facilities internationally, as a program coordinator for traditional midwives, as an educator, and a policy/advocacy expert on midwifery. She owns and operates a long-standing homebirth practice, is licensed in both Arizona and New Mexico, and is the founder of Parteras de Maiz, dedicated to traditional birth work and health justice.Marinah is currently serving as a board member for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice and an Advisory Board member for Birth Detroit.
Marinah is active in multiple public health initiatives and coalitions within her community and at the national and international levels. Her background includes diverse activism such as street level medic work and immigration activism in Arizona, clinical/government policy work in Mexico and Africa, organizational development and facilitation in the U.S and Mexico with various non-profits, AI/AN/indigenous health justice work, and as a founding board member of a free clinic for immigrant families, Phoenix Allies for Community Health.Marinah is passionate about advocating for traditional and community healers and has worked as a staff midwife for birth centers and medical facilities internationally, as a program coordinator for traditional midwives, as an educator, and a policy/advocacy expert on midwifery. She owns and operates a long-standing homebirth practice, is licensed in both Arizona and New Mexico, and is the founder of Parteras de Maiz, dedicated to traditional birth work and health justice.Marinah is currently serving as a board member for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice and an Advisory Board member for Birth Detroit.
Marinah makes delicious tostadas and salsa, loves to host parties, married to her hero and is mama and gigi to 5 incredible humans and their babies.