I’m a first-generation Filipino American and an English and Tagalog speaker. I was raised in a big, multi-generational family and have been around pregnant folks and babies for much of my life. I grew up in Southern California, spent my 20’s in Western Washington, and have been residing in Oakland since 2024. I identify as queer, nonbinary, and a lesbian. My work is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves choice, access, safety, and power in their reproductive journeys. I’m especially honored to support individuals and communities whose lineages have had to fight for this freedom — whether that meant the right to give birth and raise children, or the right not to.

I started as a birthworker when I took an abortion doula training in 2016, after a personal experience where I could have really benefitted from doula support navigating an abortion. My learning about doulas, bodily autonomy, and the social systems we have to navigate to get the care we need, expanded through a reproductive justice framework. I continued on to train as a birth and postpartum doula. I spent time in my 20’s as a volunteer doula at a hospital, a community outreach doula, and as an early childhood educator working at a nature-based daycare as well as an outdoor forest school.