Carolina Nkouaga is a public health consultant and a community midwife. She currently serves families as a midwife with Changing Woman Initiative, in addition to assisting with administration of the organization, and is a consultant to the National College of Midwifery, the New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force, and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She is a member of the New Mexico Department of Health Licensed Midwife Advisory Board, and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council, the Beyond Flexner Alliance, and Cien Aguas International School Governing Council. For over a decade, she served as the Director of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office for Community Health, where she collaborated on the development of the health extension model and various community health worker initiatives, as well as working with community partners to improve health and health equity in the state of New Mexico. She currently serves families during the prenatal, birth and postpartum period, holding space and honoring their traditions as they welcome a new life. She draws on her experience of working in indigenous communities throughout Latin America on community development projects, as well as the Bahá’í principles of unity and service, to guide her work. With ties to Costa Rica and Cameroon, the family home that she shares with her awesome husband and two phenomenal daughters is often filled with the sounds of drums and singing.
