I started my path toward midwifery at Emory University, enrolling in the nursing and global health tract. After finding myself fascinated while reading about the physiology of the pregnant body, I enrolled in the Nurse Midwife program, though not fully aware of what a midwife does. Years later, I can confidently say that I was meant to become a midwife. My life goals of coming alongside people through difficult times, of providing holistic and hands-on care, and of caring about the empowerment of women all fit this special profession. I also hold a prior degree in Biology from Taylor University, and have never gotten over my fascination with plants- you’ll see many in my house!

After graduation as a Nurse Midwife, I worked in Cookeville TN, attending hospital and birth center births. Thereafter, I followed my love for Africa and taught midwives for a year in Malawi and worked as a midwife in a Doctors without Borders hospital in South Sudan. In 2015, I returned and studied perinatal massage and worked briefly at Madisonville TN’s rural birth center. I also worked as a Labor, Postpartum and Baby nurse at Emory and in Macon. In 2016, I returned to Atlanta to help open Atlanta Birth Center. After a few years, I transitioned away to work with refugee women and worked overnight as a baby nurse at people’s homes and taught at Emory. I finished a Doctorate in Naturopathy in 2019. .  I opened Moonlight Midwifery in 2019, and am excited to be living out my lifelong dream of attending home-sweet-homebirth. In 2020 I got a commercial space in Oakhurst to offer naturopathic women’s health visit, and I call this branch of my practice “Wild Herb.”

My hobbies include gardening, tennis, hiking, writing, pottery and traveling.  On weekends you’ll find me at the local farmers market and volunteering to keep the coffee carafes full at church. I’ve been involved in the foster community, and currently do some volunteer midwifery with the refugee community. I have not had the opportunity to become a mother myself, but I do have a sweet puppy named Max. I definitely miss hiking, traveling and seeing family (they are in Ohio) because we have to be available as midwives, but the enjoyment of seeing babies born at home is really amazing. 

This path of being a midwife has been enriching, sometimes hard, and yet fully embodies the gifting of who I am- what an incredible thing to be a midwife!