Vicki has been attending births since 1996, first as a doula and childbirth educator and since 2008 as a licensed midwife, first in NJ and in NY since 2010. She has been in private practice and partnerships with wonderful midwives and has mentored numerous students through the process of becoming a midwife in the apprenticeship model. Vicki believes birth is sacred, and that the sovereignty of the birthing person must be kept in mind throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

Keeping reproductive and birth justice at the forefront of the work midwives do is critical to reducing maternal and infant mortality in the U.S. Vicki believes that midwives have a responsibility to that work and are an integral piece of the puzzle of solving the maternal mortality crisis and reducing the terrible racial disparities plaguing our maternal health system.

She has her master’s in Maternal Child Health Systems (2016) from Bastyr University. Through these lenses, she has held multiple leadership roles at both state and national levels. She continues her volunteer work helping to move midwifery forward in both NY and NJ with the goal of recreating systems so that birthing people can have access to the equitable and culturally congruent care they deserve. Most importantly, Vicki is the mother to five amazing adult children and Grammy to seven beautiful grandchildren.

The birth of a child is an amazing mixture of physical happenings, emotional ups and downs, and spiritual and personal growth. It brings with it the realization that we are powerful and powerless at the same time; that we can be in control while surrendering; and that nothing else at that moment, hour, day, or even days matters, only the intensity of the work we have to do to bring this precious life from us, to us. It is a true blessing and an honor to be present, and I feel privileged to be a part of the journey.