Co-Founder, Uma Shungo

Jamie Weaver has supported over 400 births as a doula and midwife and has devoted nearly a decade to the world of birth and maternal care. She has a long history of organizing cultural projects in Ecuador. She lived in Ecaudor for 7 years, starting as a Rotary exchange student and Fulbright Scholar where she learned to weave many international organizations and diverse people together. Her passion for birth, community health, and natural medicine sprouted as she studied alongside the Ecuadorian midwives learning from diverse cultures about childbirth and women's health. She travelled to California to gather advanced medical skills and was rigorously trained by a midwives in the Sacramento and Napa area. She is a Licensed Midwife by the California Medical Board, Massage Therapist, Anthropologist, and Childbirth Educator.

Jamie graduated from the National College of Midwifery and also completed clinical hours at Maternidad La Luz on the Border of Juarez Mexico. She has had the pleasure and opportunity to accompany families on their birth journey in United States, Mexico, and in Ecuador.