Our Advisory Circle is a team of community care providers, doulas, and birth workers with diverse backgrounds, who are committed to holistic healing.

We at SOAR are honored to work side by side with our Advisory Circle to help cultivate the community of care and resource access we would like to see for BIPOC birthers and families.

 

Advisory Circle

  • Dani Cooksie

    Dani Cooksie is a local Doula in the Humboldt community. As a Doula, Dani provides birth and postpartum services to birthers in our community, as well as body healing techniques. Dani’s passion is to build community and help develop solid family foundations that better sustain community members.

  • Ruby Tuttle

    Dv-laa-ha~, Shii Ruby Tuttle. Shi Dvtlh-mush dee-ni’, Karuk ara, Yuki and Concow Maidu dee-ni. Hello, I am Ruby Tuttle, apprentice midwife here at Moonstone Birth Center. I am indigenious from the Yurok, Karuk, Yuki and Concow Maidu people. I am a mother of 4 currently living here on Wiyot land. I am attending the National Midwifery Institute as a student. I started my journey to birthwork in 2007 supporting birthing people as a doula. After years as a doula I decided to take my birth work further and started Elizabeth Davis’s Midwifery Intensives in Sebastopol, CA. After completing both of the courses I enrolled in National Midwifery institute. I am so excited to be working with SOAR. I feel like this is the next step toward making prenatal, birth and postpartum journeys safer while enveloping birthing people in their indigenous knowledge and ancestral medicine.

  • Sam Davalos

    Considering their intersectionalities as an indigenous, gender questioning, and androgynous person, Sam feels able to serve families in the full spectrum of their identities with joy & grace for activating more restoration of historical and current systemic and institutional injustices with the hope for empowering our communities to have access to beneficial health care services.

  • Brenda Montano

    Brenda Montaño is a Xicana Indigena raised in Califas based on unceded Winnemem Wintu land, aka Mount Shasta. She is a mother, traditional birth worker, certified lactation educator and media creator. Zines with Sol is a platform that shines light on DIY media creations focused on liberation parenting, body autonomy, radical birth work and decolonial medicines. Her work is grounded in Xicanisma, environmentalism, Reproductive Justice and grassroots organizing. Outside of media making and birth work, Brenda loves spending time with her plantitas and ancestor trees, laughing with her community, and learning new, necessary, self sustaining skills in preparation for the (r)evolution.

    IG/FB @zineswithsol www.zineswithsol.com