Julie is the owner and lead facilitator at Midwives Untethered. Julie is a Certified Nurse Midwife and NRP Instructor Mentor who has been teaching NRP for 22 years, the last 8 specializing in community based birth.  She started her career in EMS, and has a Bachelor’s in Nursing and Master’s in Midwifery.  In recent years she has taught maternal and newborn content for Paramedic academies, provided education for local city and volunteer departments, and written and collaborated on content at the national level to help guide collaboration of midwives and EMS.  She has spent years working towards making the transfer and transport of birthing families as seamless as possible by working with EMS and midwives to develop skills and protocols. Julie is passionate about helping to provide birth and resuscitation education wherever it is needed to help make birth a safe experience for the family and the care providers involved.  She is driven to serve and guide midwives, birthworkers, EMS and all caregivers to optimize their care and their own well-being.  She knows the key to this is caregivers who are self-aware, compassionate, and empowered to perform within functional systems, while being well educated to assess needs and perform safely in those systems.  She is honored to guard physiologic birth and the traditions of midwifery, while advocating for safe, quality care.