About Me

Hey y'all, I'm Charity.

I come from a big, loud, close family, and I was raised by women who knew how to fix just about anything with their hands. A pot of something simmering, a baby on the hip, somebody's hair being braided at the same time somebody else's fever was being talked down with a cool rag and a little bit of prayer. Our porch ceiling was painted haint blue, same as everybody else's on the block, and nobody ever had to explain why. That's where I learned this work, honestly, long before I ever had a title for it.

I was raised low country, raised on rice and okra and sweetgrass baskets my auntie could weave with her eyes half closed. Raised by women who knew that healing runs through the hands, the roots, the food, the songs, and the ones who came before. I carry all of that with me into every birth I attend.

My why is simple. I love this work. I love watching a family figure out what they actually want for their birth instead of what they've been told to want. I love a slow labor with good music playing (you can find my "Labor Day" playlist here). I love the moment right after a baby's born when the whole room exhales at once. I love being trusted with something that sacred.

I'm rooted in community. Like the meaning behind my name, I share a deep love for all mankind, and I believe in the collective power of good where it intersects with holy. For nearly a decade I've organized and fought to expand care for Alabama's families. That's meant meeting with legislators to decriminalize midwifery, fighting with systems to expand care to birth centers, drafting bills for families who want midwifery care but are otherwise "risked out," and training up the next generation of midwives so access to good training doesn't stay locked behind a paywall. I love this community, and I plan on fighting for it for a long time yet. All of that matters, but none of it makes me the expert on your birth. You are. I'm just there to help you trust yourself.

I hold two kinds of knowledge in this work. There's the practical, the medical, the informational, and that I'll share freely with anybody who wants it. Then there's what got passed down to me quietly, generation to generation, by women who guarded it carefully. That part I protect. It wasn't given to me to hand out, and I won't treat it like content.

Outside of the birth space, I'm a wife, a mama of six, and a hobbyist beekeeper. We've got one four legged family member, Cullen, our Standard Poodle, and one legless one, Jack, our ball python. My house is loud most days, full up with kids and dogs and bees and one very patient snake, and I like it that way.

10,000+

Families served through advocacy, outreach, and service.