Being born and raised in Colorado, Jo has always found home in mountainous settings. Growing up, she was fascinated with babies and pregnancy, seeking every opportunity to learn from the pregnant women around her. In September 2018, she had the honor of attending the birth of her niece in their off-grid home in Tasmania which ignited her passion for birthwork. Since then, Jo has worked and studied dance, herbalism, wildcrafting, wilderness therapy, and women's medicine- all of which prepared her for her journey towards Midwifery. She went through a doula apprenticeship in Colorado and attended a Midwifery Assistant course on Ina May's Farm in Tennessee. Last year, she worked as a field guide in a wilderness therapy program in Southern Utah, teaching bushcrafting skills, facilitating Rites of Passage ceremonies, and learning much about the experience of being a woman. Jo is passionate about educating and empowering women to be intimately connected to their bodies, cycles, and birth. In August 2022 she moved to Klamath Falls to apprentice under and work with Eliza at Klamath Birth Center, with plans of becoming a Midwife. When she's not at the birth center, you can find her harvesting wild plants, having late-night solo dance parties, reading and studying all things birth-related, or making herbal medicines in her kitchen.