Our Members
Our members are all LGBTQ-identified volunteers, who are committed to inclusivity, diversity and to being the best allies.
Britt Jackson (She/Her)
Midwife
As a community midwife, I am rooted in, involved in, and a member of the community I serve. I believe in welcoming and celebrating all people and meeting people where they’re at. I believe that cultural differences and lived experiences are assets to one’s identity, existence, and health, and those aspects of your life should be understood and celebrated by your midwife. I believe in trust and true connection between a birthing family and their provider, and deeply trust in the processes of the families I work with. It is important to me to hold space for my families to be who they are, truly and authentically, and to provide individualized care to every single family I work with.
When I’m not with families or at a birth, my world revolves around my family. My wife and I have three amazing daughters.
Ellyn Wyman-Grothem (She/Her)
Birthworker | Childbirth Educator | Fertility Doula
Ellyn Wyman-Grothem is a birth doula and childbirth educator specializing in queer and/or fat birth experiences. Her journey to birthwork was a little meandering, giving her expertise in early childhood and children with exceptionalities, teaching, and writing. She believes in calm, supportive guidance and trusting birthing people to make decisions that are best for their own bodies and babies.
She lives in St. Paul, MN with her wife in an old house with a big garden. Outside of birthwork, she enjoys researching random topics that catch her interest, napping, science fiction, TTRPGs, and laughing at the foster guinea pigs her wife is raising.
Janine Stiles (She/Her)
Midwife
Janine Stiles is a Traditional Midwife with the Certified Professional Midwife credential. Her practice, Mandala Midwifery Care, strives to provide loving and individualized care and education that honors all family types. Janine believes that the childbearing year is a time of tremendous growth and transformation and is honored to walk along side those experiencing it. In addition to prenatal, postpartum and home birth care, Janine provides well care, fertility consultation, and insemination services to women, transmen and those whose gender identity is fluid.
Janine lives with her wife and teenage son in St. Paul, MN.
Becca Andreassen
(she/they)
Midwife
Becca is a Licensed Traditional Midwife committed to offering affirming, equitable, accessible reproductive and childbearing care in the Twin Cities Metro, including home birth attendance. She loves supporting and advocating for pregnant and birthing people and newborn babies, and is honored to witness families grow as new humans take their first breaths. Becca takes seriously the responsibility of midwives to be teachers, and is thrilled to work with Queer Birth Project. When not working, they're mostly hanging out with their own family - two partners, two kids, and two cats - in their Minneapolis home. Becca enjoys sewing, knitting, dancing, singing, acting, communing with nature, and most of all spending time with friends and family.
Sarah Talbert
(she/her)
Midwife
Sarah is a Licensed Midwife in the metro and surrounding are. She passionate about getting to know each unique person and family she serves while building intimate and trusting relationships. She believes all pregnant people and families deserve the right to education and choice surrounding their care and birth experience. With the belief that birthing people already carry all the innate knowledge they need to give birth to their baby, she sees her role as providing the space and choice to use it. Sarah finds every pregnancy and birth an incredible journey that she is honored to walk alongside. When not attending births she enjoys all things outdoors, camping and hiking with the pups, traveling, trying new foods, laughing with friends, spending time with her family (2 partners, 2 dogs and a cat that thinks he's god), as well as curling up on the couch with a good book and Indu the cat god in her lap.
Kayla Kronfeld
(she/her)
Student Midwife. | Childbirth Educator
Kayla has been involved in birth work since 2018 as a Birth Doula and is currently in her last year as a Student-Midwife! Previously a middle school teacher, Kayla is passionate about learning and education -- she believes that being informed allows for safe, consensual care. She loves discussing all things conception, birth, postpartum, and all the options that a person has throughout these journeys. When Kayla is not learning about, teaching, or discussing all things birth, she enjoys spending time with her partner and fur-children, canoeing the BWCA, tending to her plants, playing board games, and a really worn crewneck sweater.
Brayden Spearman
(he/him)
Birthworker
My name is Brayden (Pronouns: He/They) – a professionally trained birth & postpartum doula (working towards becoming a Full Spectrum doula, amongst other things). I have had a passion for birth & nurturing children since I was a child myself. I have always been a person that likes to support and be there for others. People tell me quite often that I have a calming aura to be around.
As I got older, I started realizing the true depths of the mortality rates amongst Black birthers and the babies they are carrying. I also saw the need for support for birthers in the trans/non-binary community. I am a Black, transmasculine, and queer doula; who believes that everyone deserves to have birthing and postpartum support no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation, or body type.
My goal as a doula is to make sure that the client and anyone else that may with them feels supported and like the decisions made were informed and based on consent.
I am working on various trainings currently through Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings, and I plan on certifying through them. My birthwork is definitely based on things like racial, social, disability & reproductive justice.
Justine Sveen
(She/Her)
Sexuality Educator
Justine Sveen (she/her) is a sex educator and registered nurse empowering parents to raise safe and informed children. Most of Justine’s professional career has been as a nurse in emergency departments and a short stint at a methadone clinic. As someone who was raised in Christian purity culture, she has personally experienced how limiting accurate sex education to children is harmful and strives to give her children the knowledge they deserve.
She is enrolled in a program to be a holistic sex educator through The Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment.
She lives in Minneapolis, MN with her partner, their two children, and her one and only Xena Warrior Princess (her 9-year-old Maltese-Yorkie). Hobbies include running very slowly for longish periods of time, alternating between reading intensely educational non-fiction and page-turning queer YA, staring at her plants willing them to grow, and following her kids in whatever adventures they have chosen that day.