I became an INELDA trainer early in 2017. I bring to my teaching extensive experience as a hospice and labor and delivery nurse—work I still do on a per diem basis. I’m also a Faculty Educator for Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and a DONA International Birth Doula Trainer. In 2016 I was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honors Society, in recognition of my role as a leader in the field of nursing education. For me, the transitions of birth and death have always seemed to parallel each other, sometimes occurring together as I dealt with fetal and maternal demises in my work as a birth doula and labor and delivery nurse.
Prior to my nursing career I was a production manager for projects in New York City that focused on the intersection between art and politics. I’m also a Level I Reiki practitioner and a student of the Buddhist teacher Thich Naht Hanh. When I’m not serving the dying or a birthing woman, I can be found playing with my two cats, Hermes and Apollo, or out dancing while listening to live music.