Instructors and Staff

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, and taking walks with animals.

Gloria previously served as an Equity Consultant at NMI before taking on the role of Academic Director. Equity and access in midwifery education are 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 Midwifery.

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.

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

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).

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.>

Connie Perkins (she/they) is a midwife, activist, mother and herbalist specializing in full spectrum, trauma informed reproductive care. She has over 20 years of experience supporting families through the childbearing year. Connie trained as a midwife through the apprenticeship model in a busy rural practice in Michigan and became a CPM in 2013. She later graduated Magna Cumme Laude with a bachelor of Science in Midwifery from Midwives College of Utah. Connie has a deep commitment to listening and sees her work as a midwife as participation in a radical movement back to honoring our bodies and the land. Connie is passionate about the student experience and the future of midwifery education, especially the accessibility of midwifery education for indigenous communities of students and traditional midwives. Connie proudly carries mixed Indigenous and Settler ancestry. She spent her childhood split between coastal Virginia and the Menominee Indian Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. She has three home born children and currently resides in west Maui.

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

Sierra is a queer licensed midwife and educator living on Wabanaki land and serving southern + midcoast Maine with Soft Corner Midwifery, a radical, justice-focused group practice that provides full-scope reproductive care.
Her entry into midwifery came as a toddler supporting animals through the natural processes of birth and death on her family farm. Prior to formally training as a midwife, Sierra completed a doctorate in sociology with a specialty in queer family-building, where she gained a deep appreciation for the providers who serve her queer + trans community with compassion and knowledge and felt the call to become one such provider.
Sierra lives with her wife, spunky blue heeler, and grumpy orange cat in Portland, Maine. When she isn’t midwifing or teaching, she is probably reading queer fantasy, roller skating, jazz dancing, or playing in the river with her dog. Photo by Joshua Langlais: joshualanglais.com

Tessa Landreau-Grasmuck (they/she) is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and a Licensed Midwife (LM) in the state of Vermont. Tessa has been a full-spectrum birthworker, reproductive justice organizer, and community educator for 15+ years, and has been catching babies since 2021, when they graduated from Birthwise Midwifery School. Tessa practices with Threshold Community Midwives, offering preconception care, home insemination (IUI), and homebirth services.
As a queer provider and solo parent by choice, Tessa is especially committed to working with queer/trans folks and solo parents across all reproductive experiences. As a clinical and community herbalist, Tessa works with clients with reproductive/generative and hormonal concerns and organizes with The Rose Core Collective, an herbal mutual aid project. As a community educator, Tessa specializes in herbal medicine for reproductive/hormonal health and midwifery models of care for pregnancy loss and abortion. Tessa is committed to training new cohorts of midwives, healthcare providers and careworkers to provide trauma-informed, embodied, equitable care.