We are so excited to introduce you to some of the amazing people we get to call our collaborators in putting together the radical and expansive training that Capstone US continues to be. Please explore their work, their incredible offerings and support them in all the ways you can!

ajira (they/she) is a Queer, fat, disabled Black mama who is passionate about parenting, connecting and building community. These identities and experiences inform and guide their work as a full spectrum birthworker, aligned flow creative and liberation strategist and educator to birthing folks and birthworkers. 

ajira has been the Vision Root for Roots of Labor Birth Collective since 2020 and offers full spectrum support, consultations and education centering BIQTPOC to folks moving through transitions, transformations and reproductive care using trauma informed and harm reducing frameworks in their private practice. They offer sacred business consulting and coaching to birthworkers, healers and creatives, supporting them to get aligned in purpose, clear in strategy and nourished in work. 

ajira is rooted in fostering self-care as a revolutionary practice, navigating the shadow work birthwork can invite us to engage in and cultivating what’s needed for you to create a sustainable and aligned business or practice. 

Learn more about them and their offerings:
ajiradarch.com

Amirah Bashir (she/ella) has been doing care and healing work for the past 10+ years, including but not limited to social work, mental health, crisis support, harm reduction and navigating social services systems such as CPS, foster care and SSI/disability.  Amirah has extensive experience working with extremely vulnerable populations of folks while navigating systemic oppression.  She has worked tirelessly to support and help families and individuals who are especially navigating these systems.  Amirah has also been studying an array of healing modalities, including as a reiki and herbal medicine practitioner, that are typically incorporated into her work.

Originally from the East Coast, she is transitioning to support folks within the Bay area as a full-spectrum birthworker with emphasis on advocacy, support and principles of harm reduction and postpartum support.

Brooke Patmor (they/them) is a full-time, full-spectrum birth worker working in occupied Ohlone territory otherwise known as the San Francisco Bay Area. As a queer, fat, non-binary person themselves, Brooke is dedicated to offering inclusive care with a trauma-informed, anti-racist, and social justice framework. They support people through ALL birth outcomes including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth and welcome people of all identities and family structures- recognizing the added challenges of navigating the birth and postpartum world as a queer-identified person or someone with other marginalized identities. Brooke is down-to-earth and compassionate in their care, offering a steady sense of peace to the process. They rely on their intuition and learned skills to help meet clients where they are.

Learn more about them and their work:
borncollectivesf.com

Cassandra Chase (she/they) - is a Black Queer full spectrum birthworker from the Bay Area, working on her degree in Psychology and becoming a Lactation Consultant. Supporting families during such a sacred time has been her passion for the last six years. Cassandra wants to give families the tools they need in order to make informed decisions during and after labor while setting up a solid foundation for families to be healthy and happy. When she is not attending births, Cassandra can be seen crocheting and gardening. She is an RLBC heirloom member and served as Co-Director of Inmate Support Services for RLBC's Santa Rita Jail support program when she was an active member in the collective.

Mami Meow-Meow a.k.a. Celestina Meow a.k.a. The Van Lady is an artist and longtime sex worker with many years experience in many facets of the sex industry. She currently drives a van around San Francisco serving the health and occupational needs of folks working and living on the streets, trains medical students to perform sensitive, competent pelvic exams and is raising a brilliant child.

Christy Hall (she/her) is a Full Spectrum Doula working in Portland Oregon. She works with a program called Project Nurture, which provides wrap around support to pregnant people in Recovery from addiction, and opiate dependence. She also has a private practice, and runs a small apprenticeship program. During her 19 years working as a doula, she has supported pregnant people experiencing incarceration, people having abortions, pregnant and postpartum people in a wide variety of stages of addiction and recovery, and much more. She aspires to bring the harm reduction, bodily autonomy, and justice frameworks to all that she does.

Dora ‘Zeliatl’ Martinez (ella/she) is a proud indigena from Yaqui and Tlamanalcah lineages. She is a cultural worker and community (re)organizer based in Tohono O'odham and Yaqui territory. She is a mother of 6 children, including one earthside, Cehualli. All 6 children have guided this journey and now her life’s work.

She is a proud co-founder of Tucson Abortion Support Collective (TASC), a Tucson-based collective providing emotional, informational, material, and logistical support to people seeking abortion care in Arizona. During the pandemic, TASC became one of the largest abortion funds in Arizona with 100% volunteer labor and 100% of the proceeds going to support clients directly with their abortion needs.

These days Dora spends both her paid and unpaid time focused on making space for folks looking to release their pregnancy outside of the clinical setting. In 2018 Dora founded Liminal Tides, a 5 year study project that included the development of a network that aims to bring Black and Indigenous healers, providers and cultural workers together to share and further develop better support practices for abortion seekers of the global majority.

Michela Hernandez (she/her) is a full spectrum birthworker, bodyworker, and deathkeeper in Northern California and lives on Sinkyone Intertribal Territory in Humboldt County. She has been supporting her rural community with medical advocacy, perinatal support, and community organizing and outreach for over a decade. Michela works closely with her ancestral indigenous (Mexica) traditions, personally and professionally, and holds birth, life, and death as ceremony. 

Learn more:
Sacred-Bridges.com

Ria Tsinas (she/her) is co-author of Pregnancy and Substance Use: A Harm Reduction Toolkit. 

Enroll in our advanced full spectrum birthwork training to further explore radical birth/care work that centers Reproductive Justice.

🔗 REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

April 23 - August 6 from 12 – 2:30PM PST

Every Sunday on Zoom

$767 USD with payment plants available