Education:

St. Olaf College, B.A. 2001 - Social Work and Women's Studies
Currently an MPH/MSW candidate at the University of Minnesota schools of Public Health and Social Work

DONA Advanced Doula Inservice - Spinning Babies
Taught by Gail Tully   Fall 2003
Seminar focusing on fetal positioning and methods within the doula scope to assess and help them turn to the optimal position for labor.

DONA Doula Certification Workshop
Gail Tully and Nickie Kerrigan, trainers. January 20-21, 2002
A weekend-long seminar concentrating on the role and purpose of a doula, comfort measures, physiology of labor, emotional needs of the laboring woman, ethics and scope of practice, the birth "team", and much more.  Teaching methods included role-play, hands-on practice of physical comfort methods, positioning, lecture, video, and literature.

Childbirth Education Series
Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, MN   Spring 2002
Six three-hour hospital-based classes for expectant parents.  Topics covered include nutrition, exercise, physiology of pregnancy and labor, labor progress and stages, medications and interventions, patterned breathing, Cesarean birth, newborn care, and breastfeeding,

Minneapolis Childbirth Collective
Weekly, ongoing
Non-profit organization of childbirth professionals providing weekly prenatal informational "topic nights" for expectant parents.  Topics covered include the purpose of doula care, medications and interventions, the natural rhythm of labor, comfort measures, Cesarean prevention, waterbirth, marriage after childbirth, and many more.

Professional Memberships
Doulas Of North America (DONA)
Minneapolis Childbirth Collective

References:

Available on request.