I became interested in women and children’s health from a young age after volunteering in the Labor and Delivery unit of my local hospital as a candy striper. After a Bachelors in Biology and minor in Chemistry at UNC- Chapel Hill, I continued to deepen my interest in women and children’s health in Shanghai, China where I worked for the international charity Operation Smile. During medical missions across China, my passion for supporting parents and babies developed further and eventually led to my career as a childbirth doula, lactation educator counselor and prenatal yoga teacher. During the perinatal period, I strive to help parents feel educated, supported and cared for through this transformational time in their lives.

I am a birth doula with DONA International, a Lactation Educator and Counselor through U.C. San Diego and a E-RYT 200 and RPYT (Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher) with the Yoga Alliance. I completed my yoga teacher training with Yoga Arts in Bali, continued studies with Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai as well as Vipassana studies in Sohna, India. I completed Heart & Hands Midwifery Intensives with Elizabeth Davis in 2020 and the Spinning Babies workshop in 2021to deepen my birth knowledge and broaden my ability to support parents. I am a volunteer with the Postpartum Support Center as a facilitator of the ROSE Program to help expecting and new parents lower the risk of postpartum depression. I am also the facilitator for the Marin circle of CircleMoms, a new mothers group for babies 0-3 months.

After over a decade in Shanghai, China, my family and I moved to Marin County, CA and when not supporting families you will find me cruising on the SF Bay, hiking, practicing yoga or playing baseball with my boys.