Jesse is a visionary in the field of integrated healthcare. She brings her skills as a doula, trainer, educator, speaker, writer, change agent, advocate and resource to support the creation of new models of maternity care. She specializes in the childbearing year but her wisdom is available to many modalities of traditional healthcare work. Jesse is a leader in the doula field. She’s the founder of Mother Tree Birth Services the largest doula practice in Oregon, providing pregnancy, birth and postpartum support to families in the greater Portland and Vancouver area since 2001. She is a leading expert in the clinical design team for Providence Health Systems Pregnancy Care Package and became the first staff doula of their integrated healthcare model. She is a founding member of the Oregon Doula Association (ODA) and chair of the Policy & Advisory Committee. She is a liaison to the Oregon Health Authority Traditional Healthcare Workers Systems Integration subcommittee working on creating sustainable systems of doula support within the system. She has supported thousands of families during her combined 20 years in private practice and as lead doula at PMCC. She is a certified birth and postpartum doula (DONA) and a doula trainer (DONA). She’s trained thousands of doulas, nursing students and L&D staff in the art of doula care internationally.  Jesse is dedicated to bridging models of care and has worked with many health systems including Providence Health Systems, Adventist Health, Legacy Health Systems, HealthShare of Oregon, Aviva Institute, Zenana Spa & Wellness Center as a childbirth educator, breastfeeding counselor, trainer and infant hearing screening coordinator. She has contributed her support and expertise to numerous doula organizations, educational institutionsand agencies including the Oregon Health Sciences University PDX Doula Program, Gateway Doula Project, Doula Love and Westside Doulas. Jesse speaks on behalf of the doula profession at numerous conferences, nursing schools and health care settings.  For the past eight years she’s led the only 6-month doula intensive internship in the nation and plans to expand into a doula college with the gold standard for curriculum for hospital-based doula training affiliations. Prior to her work as a doula Jesse worked with change agents in the field of organizational development. She coordinated an annual Breakfast for Excellence for the Portland business community and international leadership conferences for delegates to the Performance Center, a Portland State based think tank best known for the Oregon Quality Award in Business and the Leadership Institute. Jesse has 17 years in journalism, public relations, marketing, event planning and hospitality. She was the first marketing director that helped to open a community events center on the Oregon Coast that hosted over 300 events a year including broadway shows, conferences and conventions. She founded an annual Community Health Fair that is now in it’s 18th year running. She was the director of events for the Steve Martin Management Co. — owner of the Surfsand Resort and Stephanie Inn in Cannon Beach, OR specializing in corporate retreats. She earned the highest group sales record for the company in it’s history. She receiving her Bachelors of Science in Journalism degree at University of Oregon. Jesse lives in Portland, OR at the Mother Tree Retreat Center with her two sons Dashiell and Juna on 5 acres of other assorted nature creatures in Portland, Oregon.

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