Meet Our Doulas
We have four doula teams ready to support you, depending on where you live and where you are giving birth. All of our doulas have foundational instruction as professional birth doulas in addition to advanced birth-related skills training. All team members also continue to attend monthly company wide in-service educational workshops. It is our privilege to provide you with the highest quality support in the DMV area.
DCBD Central Senior Team
Sarah Paksima
Owner & Senior Doula
Sarah (she/her) has been supporting families for 19 years in the United States, Kuwait, Oman, India, and Jordan…
Jen Finnegan
Senior Doula
Jen (she/her) has been lucky enough to be on a life journey that has led her to truly appreciate and understand…
Rena Geibel
Senior Doula
Rena’s (she/her) birth of two girls in Kenya in 2004 and 2005 influenced her to shift her professional focus …
Elizabeth Parish
Senior Doula
Elizabeth (she/her) felt the first tugs in the direction of childbirth when she was in college and spent time with a midwife…
Casey Runck
Senior Doula
Casey (she/her) was drawn to doula work because she knows there are just as many ways to be a good mother as there are…
Emily Workman
Senior Doula
Emily (she/her) loves to help families begin parenthood from a place of strength and self-trust and to play a small role in…
DCBD Central Junior Team
Marcela Bastos
Junior Doula
Marcela (she/her) first came to appreciate the work of doulas by watching them as a pediatrician in her home country of Brazil.
Amy Battjer
Junior Doula
Amy (she/her) made the transition to birth work after her own experiences becoming a mother to her two sons.
Emily Bird
Junior Doula
Emily (she/her) was drawn to birth work after her own experience with the joy, uncertainty, and powerful transformation…
Rebecca Gitter
Junior Doula
Rebecca (she/her) has been working as a certified prenatal yoga teacher in the DC area for more than a dozen years…
Amber Wright
Junior Doula
Amber (she/her) is a mother of 2 young daughters who felt drawn to become a doula after the birth of her children…
Kelsey Ogenia
Junior Doula
Kelsey (she/her) has always felt called to birth work and reproductive health issues. While studying at the University of…
DCBD East Team
Coming in 2020
Alicia Glover
Doula
Alicia Glover (she/her) began her lifelong passion of health and wellness after a 16 year career as an Intelligence Analyst.
Kelsey Ogenia
Doula
Kelsey (she/her) has always felt called to birth work and reproductive health issues. While studying at the University of…
Taneka Purnell-Tingle
Doula
Taneka (she/her) has served as a doula for her friends and family all her adult life. Caring for loved ones and supporting …
Jackie Seisman
Doula
Jackie (she/her) became passionate about birth work and reproductive rights after witnessing her sisters’ births at a young…
DCBD South Team
Coming in 2020
