Katie has long been a passionate advocate for autonomy, equity, and justice in health care, and specifically in reproductive care. She is excited to join the team at NMI and support the organization and students as we continue to grow and thrive.
After graduating with a BA in Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Katie studied Public Health and Comparative Health Systems in Bremen, Germany, then completed her Master of Public Health (MPH) at Boston University. During her graduate studies, Katie focused on Perinatal Health and Epidemiology, and specifically, access to options in childbirth and reproductive health care.
While not a midwife herself, Katie firmly believes the world needs more midwives, and specifically, more midwives to serve every body. It is for this reason that Katie is dedicated to working in the systems that train midwives, to ensure that the structural barriers that lead to homogeneity in midwifery graduates can be removed and a more just, accessible, and vibrant educational and training system can take root and thrive.
To address these systemic concerns, Katie joined the board of the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council in 2019 where she currently serves as co-chair of the Equity and Access committee. In 2021 Katie was honored to be elected President of MEAC, and will continue to work at multiple levels to support access to high quality, equitable, just midwifery education.
Katie lives in Maine with her kids and sweet rescue dog, Freckles. When she's not working, you can find her knitting, cooking, or collecting sea glass on the beach. photo credit: Tarae of Wild Pines Photography in Maine
Gloria González Campise, LM, CPM is a graduate of NMI and enjoys working with students at NMI. She is a licensed Xicana midwife practicing in rural Northern California, Pomo land, Ukiah. She trained in busy birth centers and home birth practices in the northern, and then central coastal areas of California. She is actively reclaiming Mexican Traditional Birth & Postpartum practices. She is starting a home birth midwifery practice, which is slowly growing. She enjoys spending time with family, being in nature, taking walks with various pets and farm animals.
Gloria previously served as an Equity Consultant at NMI before taking on the role of Academic Director. Equity and Access in midwifery education is a foundational to her work and will be woven into her new role. Her work as an Academic Director includes supporting students with mentoring and academic advising, leading cohorts through modules, creating and revising modules, and so much more. Please always feel welcome to reach out to introduce yourself, receive support on modules, ask questions, offer suggestions, or just to check in on your academic progress.
Gloria's home birth midwifery practice in California can be found at People's Midwfery.
Tiffany has a passion for helping people meet their stated goals and attain self-efficacy. She believes in autonomy, informed decision-making, and full disclosure as the cornerstones of both healthcare and education. Her nature is to bring a respectful, gentle, and nurturing presence to every encounter with clients and students alike. With twenty years of working in healthcare under her belt, Tiffany brings a wealth of experience to her role as Clinical Director at NMI. Previously, she worked in conventional healthcare settings such as a primary care outpatient office, a small regional hospital and a large, tertiary hospital. After the first half of her career, a strong desire started to bubble to the surface: to shift towards a health service with a more holistic approach. Most importantly, she longed to work in a healthcare setting where social justice is woven into every aspect of care. Hence—a midwife was born! For the past 10 years, Tiffany has worked as the lone Black midwife and lactation consultant between Maine and Massachusetts. She serves a diverse client population with a wide call area. She will continue to provide clinical care with a special invitation to the underserved, rural and marginalized folks in Maine while in service to the NMI community. Her goal is to support a diverse array of midwifery students in developing exceptional midwifery skills to confidently and competently serve their communities. With a heart and a passion for dismantling oppressive healthcare systems and developing new strategies for making equitable access to healthcare for all, she hopes to rally students and preceptors to share in this work. Tiffany graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology from Bates College in 2003. In 2013, Tiffany graduated from Birthwise Midwifery School and later served as a faculty member and preceptor at Birthwise for many years. Further, Tiffany has mentored students as a clinical preceptor through Midwives College of Utah and National College of Midwifery in their apprenticeships. Additionally, Tiffany has provided lactation care as an IBCLC for the past 5 years. Of interesting note, Tiffany is an age-grouper triathlete with a special love for open water swimming in the ocean—a place of healing and calm. She shares a home in coastal Maine with Jameson (partner), Liam (son) and Pickles (cat).
Leah Hamilton joined NMI in 2019 as Program Administrator in our Middlebury office. Prior to NMI, Leah worked for the Workplace Giving Alliance for fourteen years, managing the Admissions department. She helped develop and implement various databases and technologies to streamline both the annual application process for member charities and the review process for staff.
Leah is a graduate of Cincinnati Christian University. She was born in Costa Rica and spent most of her early years in South America. Leah lives in Vermont with her husband and their three children, a cat, a dog, and chickens.
Jess Kimball is a full spectrum birth and postpartum doula. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor. She supports families with overnight care and specializes in the care of multiples. She is passionate about infant sleep, babywearing, and returning to a "village style of care". Jess is a published author.
Her passion for midwifery stems from her experiences with her siblings' births. When she was five years old she attended midwifery appointments with her mother and was present in the home when her brother was born in the master bedroom. She heard stories of all seven of her mothers children's births. The stories were filled with supportive midwives, crazy car births, inductions, unmedicated, and medicated births. Jess attended her first birth at fifteen and graduated high school the following year as a certified doula, ready to dive into her career in birth work.
Her connection to NMI dates back to the beginning of her life when her mother was gifted a set of cassette tapes titled "Pathways to Midwifery" that spoke of NMI. She always heard talk of NMI and when she relocated to Vermont she knew she wanted to be a part of their team.
She lives with her two dogs and spends her free time hiking, paddleboarding, traveling, and cooking.
Molly Dutton-Kenny, CPM, RM (she/her) is a midwife, educator and advocate based in Ontario, Canada. After graduating from NMI in 2015, Molly pursued the bridging program through Ryerson University in Toronto to work as a Registered Midwife in Ontario. Molly practices full time in a group practice, where she enjoys attending hospital & home births in her small community of Milton. In addition to her midwifery work, Molly has worked with NMI in various capacities since 2017, including academic revisions, accreditation support, and serving as the Clinical Director for 3 years. Currently, Molly works as a Study Group Coursework instructor, providing feedback to students on their academic submissions at NMI, and as a periodic HIVE Mind instructor teaching on student-selected topics.
When not working as a full-time midwife, she specializes in community education around full spectrum pregnancy loss and abortion, and midwifery-based management and support of these experiences, centering home and holistic medicine as options for most people. You can read more about her work at www.mollyduttonkenny.com
Lucky is a licensed midwife in the state of Wisconsin. In 1998, Lucky trained to be a doula, and was certified by DONA in 1999. That was also the year that Lucky became a La Leche League Leader. After the birth of her third baby in 2000, she began training with a homebirth midwife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since those early beginnings, Lucky has attended about 350 births in various capacities.
Lucky also works as a sexuality educator (since 2008), providing education and trainings for birthworkers and regular folks alike on a variety of topics. Her classes focus on consent culture, sex and disability, sex and chronic pain, and the issues that parents face around sexuality. She is the author and founder of the Birthworker Inclusivity Training Series, the only training focused on the needs of sexual minorities. Lucky is also a published author, formerly writing The Slightly Crunchy Parent, a monthly parenting column (2002-2009), and currently writing MKE SEX, a semi-monthly sex ed column (since 2016).
Lucky lives in Milwaukee with her partner and their cat. When not teaching, writing, and attending births, Lucky loves spending time with her adult children and two grandchildren, needle felting for stress relief, and reading books cuddled up on her couch. You can read more about her work at Transitions: Birth Services for Every Body (www.transitionsbirthservices.com)
I graduated from Knox College in 2007 with a Bachelor's Degree in Education. After the birth of my first son in 2010, I began apprenticing with a local midwife. I have been attending births as a primary midwife since 2011. I received my Certified Professional Midwife credential from the North American Registry of Midwives, as well as my license from the State of Oregon as a Licensed Direct Entry Midwife in 2013. I completed the 90 hour education requirement and 1000 clinical hours required to sit for the IBCLC exam in 2016, and received my credential in 2017. I'm passionate about providing midwifery care and prenatal education which allows me to draw on my background in education. Giving families the most current research and evidence based information helps them make the best decisions for their families. I offer childbirth education classes, as well as placenta encapsulation. I served on the Oregon Midwifery Council as the MidValley Regional Representative from 2013-2020. I currently teach the Initial Legend Drugs and Devices course, required for midwives seeking licensure in Oregon. I have also presented on Anemia in Pregnancy, a MEAC accredited continuing education course for midwives across the country. I have been a preceptor since 2016, and have thoroughly enjoyed working with a variety of students at different points in their education. I am excited about continuing my work with midwifery students through my time at NMI. I hope to be a resource to students as they walk the path of midwifery. My husband and I have four children, all born at home. In my free time I love to read, sew, bake and spend time outside. Julia is the co-owner of MidValley Birthing Services and has a Bachelor's Degree in Education from Knox College. After the birth of her first son in 2010, she began apprenticing with a local midwife. She has been attending births as a primary midwife since 2011. After rigorous self study, and attending numerous classes and workshops, Julia received her Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential from the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), as well as her license from the State of Oregon as a Licensed Direct Entry Midwife in 2013. Julia completed the 90 hour education requirement and 1000 clinical hours required to sit for the IBCLC exam in 2016, and received her credential in 2017.
NMI graduate, Akane, also a CPM, is excited to join NMI as Virtual Instructor. Akane’s first primer to midwifery was through stories of her mother being born in Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb in a birth attended by midwives. Akane’s own children proceeded to be born at home, through midwifery care, on a birth stool and into the water. Akane aspires to shift and shape systems and structures to become conducive to enabling midwives and the powers of midwifery. Born and raised in MN, Akane is a Hāfu-Japanese/half White American with two children who also identify as Mexican. Elevating underrepresented voices has been central to Akane’s work-life. This path has included experience in Latina-led domestic violence advocacy in MN; program implementation to support midwives and strengthen of quality of care in Afghanistan; and full-scope, full-spectrum midwifery practice, preceptorship and clinical direction in Chiapas, Mexico. Approaches utilized by Akane are influenced by practice as a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) with additional training in modalities to assist working with trauma. Akane has a B.A. in International Studies and soon completes an MSc in Maternal and Infant Health from the University of Dundee.>
Jennifer is a Chicana licensed midwife and lactation consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Since graduating from NMI in 2010 she has provided culturally-competent care to families giving birth at home, in birth centers, and in hospitals. She is a volunteer leader with La Leche League and specializes in supporting families with food allergies.
She is the mother of two daughters who were born at home.
Jennifer is excited to join NMI as a Study Group Coursework Instructor to help the next generation of midwives receive a quality education.
In her downtime between births, Jennifer enjoys working on genealogy, cooking New Mexican food, and dancing Ballet Folklorico. You can learn more about her at www.generationsmidwifery.com
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