Full Spectrum Doula Circle

Diana Halsey and Jessica Lujan from Tewa Women United’s Indigenous Women’s Health and Justice Program talked with me about supporting indigenous moms in New Mexico, the story of the Yiya Vi Kagingdi doula program, and how they braid together...

Lauren Mitchell and Mary Mahoney, co-authors of The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People talked with me in January 2017 about their book, story-based doula care, and organizing doulas. “This is what she needs us to bear witness to at the moment”...

I talk with Nneka Hall, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness (PAIL) advocate with an emphasis on working with Black families, about her own loss story, how pregnancy loss disproportionately affects Black families, and how birth doulas can use their...

Dr. Laura McGuire talked with me about supporting young people through pregnancy and parenting, doula support for queer people and people with a kink lifestyle, and support for people with a history of trauma. “The choices and options that healed...

Alyssa Basmajian & Michele Ko have both written about the abortion doula movement. I talked with them the day after the 2016 U.S. general election about what abortion doulas do, the intersection between the abortion doula movement and reproductive...