Being that my people are so far removed from birth and birthing body teachings, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years reclaiming and reteaching what was stolen. As a birth worker, it’s my responsibility to educate, share resources, tools, awareness, support, and my voice on behalf of Indigenous peoples maternal and maternal mental healthcare.

Wuttahinneoh Birth Work was created because I saw an occupied and much needed space to provide a beautiful community support system for my people, allowing others to share and heal alongside me. After experiencing such trauma and being able to heal from it, it became important for me to share how I overcame the fear, grounding in resilience in growth.

My hopes are that BIPOC people continue to work towards the direction of returning to the roots by reintroducing ceremony, ancestral practices and traditional foods back into the birth space. It’s a sacred journey to the realm between life and death, earth and sky.

When we begin to acknowledge community responsibility in birth, returning birth back to the women, the backbone of the community will be reactivated. Empowering births on the original land of the people will restore an abundance of the stolen, lost and forgotten.

My mission is to provide non-judgmental care to birthing people seeking birth support services, locally and virtually. My vision is to one day be a part of the build of the FIRST Indigenous Birth Center on Long Island, nestled on the homelands of the original stewards of these lands, Shinnecock.