Jennifer I. Almanza, DNP, CNM
Jennifer Almanza is a Xicana midwife who provides relationship centered care that supporters client agency and autonomy. Offering evidence based information coupled with shared decision-making, she encourages clients to take charge of their own health.
Diane Banigo
Diane Banigo is an illustrious doctorate prepared African American Nurse Midwife and owner of iFOB from St. Paul, Minnesota. She also moonlights at Willow Midwives Birth Center with families desiring an out of hospital birth experience. In practice, she enjoys getting to know each family personally and help them actively engage in their care and community. Diane passionately supports people from all walks of life but feels that it is critical to give and be a voice for the voiceless.
Toni Estis, APRN, CNM
Toni Estis provides full-scope midwifery care at Minnesota Community Care and catch babies at Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She values providing well rounded, respectful, safe care for women through the shared decision making and evidence-based care. Partnering with and being with women as they move through incredibly intimate times in their lives is what is most rewarding to her.
Sakeena A. Futrell-Carter, APRN, CNM, DNP-A, DNP-WH
Sakeena Futrell-Carter is passionate about empowering women by educating them about their health and supporting them through the natural and sometimes complex processes of life.
Fernanda Honebrink, APRN, CNM
Fernanda is a Certified Nurse-Midwife with many years of experience in women’s care. She is committed to providing culturally sensitive and respectful care to all her patients and their families.
Vida Suzzette Kent, APRN, CNM
Vida Kent provides care for all women with a particular interest in the adolescents/teens and women going into their perimenopausal years. Vida’s approach to midwifery focuses on giving patients options that are holistic and natural in their pregnancy and labor.
Dominique Jones, DNP, APRN, CNM, PHN
I am committed to providing full-scope midwifery care to women in a compassionate, individualized, and sensitive manner. I believe that building relationships creates space for women to be empowered to take control of their physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health. I am passionate about providing care that encourages meaningful engagement, respect, and self-advocacy. She enjoys partnering with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds to improve health outcomes.
Susannah B Okutoro-Ketter, APRN, CNM
Susannah Okutoro-Ketter is a firm believer in a holistic approach to the safe delivery of women’s health care. As a midwife, she believes in supporting each woman as a whole in every aspect of her life. Her mantra when laboring with a woman is to allow nature to take its course and intervene only when necessary.
Rebecca Polston, CPM, LM
Rebecca is a practicing midwife and the owner and director of Roots Community Birth Center. She has a passion for building the Roots community and creating a safe space for all birthing families. She has been in practice as a midwife since 2011 and involved in professional birth work for over a decade. She loves providing nurturing grounding care. She and her husband have 3 children, 2 of whom were born at home. She loves horses, her dog and reading.
Lexy Millet, APRN, CNM
Lexy is a Certified Nurse Midwife who joined the medical field because she enjoys building long-term relationships with people and partnering with folks to support their health goals. She has worked in both large hospitals and small birth centers, but the community clinic setting is her passion because she believes that every single person deserves high-quality health care. She frames her practice through the lenses of reproductive justice and the dismantling of racism in healthcare, intentionally working to partner with folks who have been ignored by the traditional healthcare system.
Kaitlin Anderson, APRN, CNM, IBCLC
Kaitlin Anderson is a Korean-adoptee who provides full-scope midwifery care at HealthPartners Clinics and attends births at Regions Hospital. She has experience and training in both out-of-hospital birth center birth and in hospital births. Kaitlin strives to provide compassionate care while empowering individuals to engage in their healthcare decisions. As an IBCLC, she also provides lactation care for individuals in need of breastfeeding/chest-feeding support.
Faisa Abdi-Omar, APRN, CNM
Faisa Abdi-Omar is a Somali speaking CNM who practices at Minnesota Community Care in St. Paul. Faisa is committed to woman-centered care and understanding of the impact a birth experience can have on a woman. She has a passion for helping patients safely achieve their ideal birth and supporting them as leaders in their healthcare.
Deka Abdulle, CNM
I am a certified nurse-midwife with interests in pregnancy, prenatal care, women’s health, contraception, trial of labor after Cesarean (TOLAC) and vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC).
I provide high-quality care that is competent, compassionate and ethical. I strive to provide care that is holistic and honors the normalcy of women’s life-cycle events. I believe in partnering with women and their families through shared decision-making and informed consent to achieve optimal well-being.
Britt Jackson, CPM
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 respect the power of birth. I believe that a person’s ability to birth unhindered, on their own terms, is one of the most powerful processes a person can ever experience. I view birth as a rite of passage, and believe every parent should leave that passage feeling empowered and confident in themselves as parents and as human beings. My biggest priority as a community midwife is to serve my community with love, compassion, and integrity.
LaVonne Moore, DNP, RN, CNM, CNP, IBCLC, ICCE
Dr. LaVonne Moore has a Doctorate in Nursing Practice, is a Certified Nurse Midwife & Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner and Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
She practices at NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center and is owner of Chosen Vessels Midwifery Services and “The Chocolate Milk Club” a culturally specific service of Chosen Vessels Midwifery Services that provides breastfeeding education and support for African American women. Her goal is to use the midwife model of care to inspire all women to breastfeed and support all those that do because she believes that good health begins with breastfeeding.