Emma is a third generation Chapel Hill native with formative roots in the historic Pine Knolls Neighborhood. Over the past five years, she has enjoyed and been honored by the privilege of observing, listening, witnessing, assisting, and empowering women throughout their birth journeys. Beginning as a birth doula in 2012 for a teen mother-to-be program through the YWCA of Greensboro, NC, Emma’s passion developed for the importance of unconditional support that all women deserve in this vulnerable and transformative time of life. This experience propelled her to the nursing field of labor and delivery. She received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Winston-Salem State University in 2015 and went on to cultivate her labor and delivery nursing experience with both high and low risk pregnant people at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA, and New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC.

Emma feels honored to come full circle – back to her roots of Chapel Hill – to join such a mindful group of women at WBWC. Emma is passionately dedicated to helping people of all backgrounds find strength in their birth process and commune with a sense of empowerment and confidence in their abilities to birth the babies that their bodies have taken such good care to grow and nurture.

You may see Emma out and about Chapel Hill enjoying time with her two beloved dogs, or sharing joyful moments with her sister and WBWC-born nephew.