As a dual-military family, she experienced her own birthing and mental health challenges where she gained a passion in countering birth and postpartum disparities military families face every day. She advocated for service members to have access to other birthing options, including her own 3 homebirths.

She applied for the Skillbridge Program and served her last 6 months of active-duty service under the apprenticeship of a licensed Midwife in Hernando, MS as a Doula and Midwife Assistant where she received hands on training, charted clients health information during appointments and attended 3 homebirths.

That experience including her own, led her to believe that if there is more awareness throughout the military community, better policies will be supported for service members and their families to receive equity access to reproductive care, which would in turn create positive outcomes for our military family’s overall wellbeing across the globe. Now she focuses on awareness, organizing and being a change agent.