About

About Me

I was born and raised in Ajachamen territory in Southern California. My family is small and all come from Argentina– some since time immemorial, some from the Druze villages of Lebanon, and the rest rim the Mediterranean from modern-day Lebanon, Greece, Italy to Spain.

I have been practicing and and learning about community care since 2008 when I moved to Santa Cruz to attend UC, Santa Cruz. I joined Indigenous solidarity mutual aid groups while I studied Latin American anthropology as a way to understand the forces and systems that require the exploitation of land, labor, and people. I gravitated naturally to texts about the role of the curanderx in Latinx communities from New Mexico to Argentina, and Indigenous communities stories in their own voices, and quickly became interested in herbal medicine. Since graduating from the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine in 2018 (and the Advanced Program in 2019) I have been a practicing Clinical Energetic Herbalist.

In 2017 I began volunteering and organizing with the Collective Wings Perinatal Project, started by nurse midwife Maria Ramos. Through that group I attended hospital births for Janus outpatient birthing parents receiving methadone treatment. I have apprenticed Marea Goodman, LM, and through their guidance attended home births as a Birth Doula.

I have also accompanied friends through their birth journeys, offering advice and counsel where I can. I have seen first-hand that having a witness and advocate in your corner when interacting with the Western medical complex supports better outcomes for birthing person and baby.

I feel strongly about the right of all people of all genders to birth safely and choose whether to birth or not and would like to support queer, gender non-conforming, and trans birthing people and families.

I am Spanish-speaking! ¡Hablo Español! Spanish is my native language and I speak with an accent from Argentina. I would love to have Spanish-speaking clients and am happy to translate where possible.