Group Staff

Indra Lusero, JD, MA

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,…

Jasmine Barnes, BS, CD, PCD

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, MPH, LM, CPM

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…

J. Michelle Gober, CPM

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…

Marinah V. Farrell, LM, CPM

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…