She/Her/Hers Crissy received her BA in Psychology from Arizona State University in 2008. She has been trained and certified as a birth and postpartum doula, and has also assisted with home births. Crissy also has 20+ years of experience as…
Latinx They/Them Indra Lusero is founder of Elephant Circle and the Birth Rights Bar Association. Indra’s family has been in the Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado area for generations. As a Queer, Genderqueer, Latinx parent rooted in this region,…
African-American She/Her/Hers Jasmine Barnes is currently a graduate student at Grand Canyon University. She received her BS in both Psychology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. Jasmine has worked as a social worker, working to reunite families within the…
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…
Michelle began working alongside midwives in 2006 in an administrative capacity at MEAC (Midwifery Education Accreditation Council). She was invited to attend births with the midwives and trained as a doula and birth assistant in Flagstaff, AZ. It was there…
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…
