Aresha Auzenne is a San Francisco native, specializing in trauma informed birth work, placenta medicine, breastfeeding counseling and donor milk education. Aresha is a full spectrum holistic Doula and a mother to a vibrant little boy.  She is most passionate about empowering women and mothers of color, building supportive maternal communities and fostering spaces of healing through motherhood. She credits her work, her passion and her healing to the many powerful women who held her and her son, during her own transition into the depths of motherhood-learning to crawl, to walk, to talk, to exist as a brand-new being. Aresha is currently working as a Community Researcher  at UC Davis, investigating Black maternal health and birth outcomes amongst women and mothers of color.