Katherine has worked for years to establish peaceful, collaborative relationships with health care providers all over the state of Vermont and New Hampshire, including hospitals, obstetricians, pediatricians, naturopathic doctors, nurse midwives, family doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and much more, so that if the need arises, a family's care can be collaborative and/or transferred in a peaceful and respectful way.

Katherine served on the Vermont Maternal Mortality Review Board for 4 years and is past-President of the Vermont Midwives Association from 2018 - 2021.

In 2004, in response to the Bam, Iran earthquake, Katherine began her intensive years of disaster relief work, focusing on the long-term effects of trauma on family and maternal/child health systems. In addition to Iran, her relief work has taken her to Russia, Aceh and Bali Indonesia, New York City, post-Katrina Louisiana and Haiti. She is the founder and President of Bumi Sehat Foundation International in the US. Katherine developed and served as the director/organizer of the student midwife program at the Bali, Indonesia birth clinic until its closure in 2014. She traveled to Bali each year as a volunteer midwife, fundraiser and a US liaison until 2018. 

Bumi Sehat Foundation International has been an integral part of Katherine's midwifery and humanitarian service work since January 2006. Bumi Sehat is a non-profit, village-based organization that runs two by-donation community health centers in Bali and Aceh, Indonesia, with a mission to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality and to support the health and wise development of communities. Katherine's role has evolved from midwife volunteer to also include creating a student midwife program, international doula training, and serving as President of the U.S. office. In 2011, midwife Robin Lim of Bumi Sehat was nominated for and won the CNN Hero of the Year Award, and Katherine has been deeply involved in Bumi Sehat's unfolding path as the organization becomes internationally known, funded, and loved.

In early 2010 Katherine co-founded and served as Director at the Bumi Sehat birth clinic in post-earthquake Haiti. She worked closely with the Haitian Minister of Health in Jacmel, delivered babies to earthquake-affected women and capacity-built Haitian healthcare workers and midwives on safe maternal/child practices.

"My daughter Katherine is one of my four children. She grew up in a cabin in the woods in upstate New York in farm country. Living in the woods kept Katherine close to nature and as a result, she became self-sufficient and strong in body, mind and spirit. She was bright in school and spent a great deal of time outside, riding horses, walking, skiing and gardening.

When she was 15 she volunteered at a hospital for the summer. That began her life of caring for people.

Katherine got married and birthed two of her own daughters. She and their father raised them together on a lot of land and home schooled them. During that time she trained for and became a Polarity Practitioner and started a private practice in her home. My daughter has an overflowing abundance of compassion and can't not take care of people. She is a natural caregiver and has been since she was young. She is calm and strong in a crisis, upbeat, optimistic and warm. And she is always learning. She never stops learning."

About Me....From My Mom  

"My own birth history includes a midwife-attended labor, with my first daughter born via cesarean birth, and a successful VBAC for my second baby born 13 months later.

I went into my VBAC trial of labor knowing that my body and spirit were strong and had healed sufficiently to birth as it naturally knew how.

I hold that knowledge and hope for all women."

-Katherine

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