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’s 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