Renee has been supporting mamas and families in the hospital setting as a nurse since 2005. After witnessing birth at home and in free-standing birth centers, in the US and throughout Latin America, she pursued her masters and began working alongside women as a midwife in 2014. She is inspired by relationships and believes birth and women’s healthcare to be powerful moments of connection. Renee is passionate about educating new midwives, both stateside and abroad, and is pursuing her Doctor of Nurse Practice as she mentors students in the art of high-quality midwifery care. She enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and their daughter (who was born at BCoB in 2018) and is always dreaming of adventures on the sea. 

Caitlin first experienced birth at age 12, when she watched her sister give birth to her nephew.  This moment sparked her passion for helping folks during their reproductive and sexual health journeys. After attending her sister’s 3rd birth during her 20s, Caitlin realized that birthwork was where her heart is. She comes to the Birth Center of Boulder from Seattle, where she earned her MSN in midwifery. Prior to nursing school she studied public health in Germany and worked with marginalized & underserved populations (homeless folks, people living with HIV, sex workers, trauma survivors, LGBTQ folks). She has attended births in hospital settings both rural and urban and is excited to transition to community based birth. She is fiercely committed to reproductive justice for all people, and aims to ensure access to safe and empowering care and health education for her patients and community.

 

Kathleen believes in meeting people where they are. She hopes to help women feel safe and comfortable and tap into their own strength, whether in a birth room during labor or during a well-woman visit. Kathleen’s introduction to birth work began in 2007 in a maternity clinic in Mali, West Africa where she conducted a research project. Since then she has had the honor of working and volunteering in a variety of health care settings in the U.S., including in primary care clinics, reproductive health clinics, birth centers, and hospitals. She graduated from the University of California, San Francisco in 2018 as a Certified Nurse-Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and is thrilled to now call Colorado home. She is deeply committed to following evidence-based practice as well as honoring her patients’ own knowledge about their bodies

 

Laura is very excited to be joining the team at the Birth Center of Boulder as she is passionate about physiologic birth and supporting women and their families. She is a proud graduate of the University of Colorado and has worked in a variety of setting since.  In the last 9 years she has been present in both hospital settings as well as free standing birth centers as a CNM. More recently, in her clinical director position, she had the opportunity to gain further knowledge in leadership, management and team building. Her heart lies with meeting women where they are at within their lifespan and coming alongside them with empowerment and education to support them. She is always honored to be a part of the miracle of birth in a woman’s life. On a personal note, Laura has an amazing husband and 3 beautiful children. In her free time she enjoys reading, running, biking and snowboarding.

 

Sophie works under the philosophy of parallel care: the way we care for people delivering, can inspire the way they will care for their delivered. Good care ripples out. She has been fascinated by birth since she was little. She studied reproductive health rites in Ghana and did research studying sexual health among marginalized populations in the Northwest. She decided to become a midwife after her time as an Early Head Start Home Visitor in South Seattle. When she wasn’t working, Sophie spent her free time as a comedy writer and performer before moving back to Colorado with her partner. Since graduating from nursing school in 2016, she enjoys splitting her time between the birth center and a sexual health clinic. She wants to make responsive, empowering care available to everyone.

 

My journey to midwifery began in 2007 when I graduated from Cedarville University with my BSN and then spent the first three years of my nursing career in adult intensive care. Although I loved my time in the ICU and learned so much from my experience, I knew when my husband and I moved to Denver in 2010 that I wanted to care for women and families during pregnancy and childbirth. So, I transitioned to working as a newborn nursery, postpartum, and labor & delivery nurse in the Denver metro area.  Along the way, I developed a love and passion for normal physiologic birth and the midwifery model of care and decided to go to midwifery school. I graduated with my MSN in December 2014 from Frontier Nursing University. Since 2015, I have worked in several Denver area birth centers and am passionate about providing safe and empowering care to the women and families in this setting. I look forward to walking alongside you during this transformative life experience! When not at work, I spend my free time with my husband, two young boys, and our long-haired English cream dachshund. I enjoy spending quality time with friends and family, eating delicious food, traveling, biking, and snowboarding.