Our Vision

A Liberated Future Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom

We are rooted in the sacred movement to restore ancestral knowledge and practices carried through the Black Diaspora and across the African continent. Our vision is to birth and sustain a maternal restorative village—a sanctuary for Black, Indigenous, and all Women of Color to remember, reclaim, and rise in their sacred power. By witnessing, honoring, and holding space for a woman’s birthing journey as the rite of passage it truly is, we offer more than care—we offer transformation.

Together, we nurture the soil of the village—so that each mother, father, birthing person, baby, and family may emerge not just supported, but reborn. Reconnected to their own internal power. Rooted in liberation. Aligned with the truth that they were never meant to do this alone.

The result is more than healthy outcomes. It is a thriving people. It is a healing ecosystem.
It is community restoration—one sacred birth at a time.

Our Mission

We witness, honor, and uplift Black, Indigenous, and People of Color—birthing people, mothers, fathers, and families—through the sacred rite of birth.

We are here to revitalize the village, to remember that birth is not an individual act but a communal transformation. Through this work, we reclaim our ancestral birthright:

To be held. To be seen. To be celebrated.
To thrive—in joy, in liberation, and in collective power.

Birth is the beginning. The Village is the way.
Thriving is our inheritance.

Our Approach & Values

“At Sacred Birthing Village, our work is not rooted in reaction—but in remembrance. We approach birthwork and community healing as sacred, sovereign acts of cultural restoration. We do not begin with systems. We begin with spirit. With story. With the deep knowing that we are the descendants of brilliance, resilience, and joy.”

  • We honor the sacred teachings passed through generations—trusting the knowledge held in our bodies, our traditions, and our dreams.

  • We believe our people have the power, skill, and right to care for themselves and each other—outside the confines of oppressive systems.

  • Birth is not a crisis—it is a ceremony. We restore the sacred to birth, parenting, and family life. This sacred process is reciprocal communal care and Radical Love.

  • We lead with love that is radical, unapologetic, and rooted in justice. We are not here to reform systems—we are here to free ourselves.

  • Healing is not linear. We center rest, joy, nourishment, and wholeness in all we do—for the birthing person, the family, and the entire village.

  • We cultivate a daily, conscious practice of tending to the parts of ourselves and our community that need nurturing for true growth and expansion. We recognize harm—both systemic and interpersonal—and choose to engage in intentional processes of mending and healing. Through our SisterFriend Kinship Program: Our Sister's Keeper, we embody the truth that healing is a collective responsibility. We model earned trust, healthy boundaries, and loving accountability within our sisterhood and community relationships. We create opportunities for families to reconnect to their inner selves so they can show up fully and authentically for their children, partners, and community.

  • We practice, engage, and build relationships that reflect the cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices of the Black Diaspora. We draw from ancestral wisdom to shape our path forward. Each person is honored as the expert of their own experience. Through reciprocal care and deep listening, we cultivate dignified relationships grounded in mutual respect and ancestral knowing. Our Village Tenders help engage the whole community in reawakening the sacred reciprocity of care.

  • We center the audacity, resilience, and sacred brilliance of our people. We honor the sacrifices of our ancestors and choose to lead with joy as a revolutionary act. In the realm of maternal health, we reject narratives of crisis. We are not broken—we are the daughters of the earth, soil, and sun. We carry the divine design of a majestic lineage. We are rich in the elements that have created and sustained nations. We lift up the passageways we’ve crossed and continue to traverse, affirming: we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

  • We engage in care that honors who we are and where we come from. Our relationships and support systems are built upon cultural alignment, ancestral guidance, and compassionate understanding. Whether it’s through postpartum tending, parenting support, or rites of passage, we work in alignment with the lived realities and spiritual needs of our people.

Living Our Values

Our values are not just spoken—they are embodied in the way we do our work:

  • Through SisterFriend Kinship: Our Sister's Keeper, we walk with birthing people as trusted companions, not providers. We offer presence, protection, and power-sharing.

  • With our Village Tenders, we mobilize community members to reweave support networks, restore mutual aid, and ensure that every family is seen and held.

  • Through our Birth Sanctuary vision, we are birthing a future where ancestral rituals, ceremonies, and holistic birthkeeping are not luxuries but birthrights. This space will hold:

    • Preconception, Prenatal and postpartum ceremonies

    • Storytelling circles

    • Healing arts and herbalism

    • Communal rest and rituals

    • Wisdom and knowledge sharing in traditional birthing practices and village care

This is not just our approach—it is our spiritual and political practice.

We Hold the Truth Without Being Defined By It

We are not led by crisis, but we do not look away from the truth.

In Bristol County, between 2019–2020, the infant mortality rate was the highest among target counties in Massachusetts. For Black mothers, that rate was twice as high as for white mothers.
On the Southcoast, low birth weight rates surpass state and national averages. And while teen birth rates continue to decline nationally, Southcoast youth still birth at higher rates than the rest of the state.

These numbers are not just statistics—they are signals. They are echoes of systems designed to fracture, extract, and neglect our people. But they are not where our story ends.

At Sacred Birthing Village, we meet these truths with rooted action and radical care.

We don’t treat symptoms—we nurture the soil.

We don’t just name disparities—we build something different.

These statistics may reflect the urgency. But it is our people, our traditions, and our vision that reflect the way forward.

We hold the numbers. But we build from the knowing that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

4.57%

or 47 out of 10,290 births 

Bristol County from 2019-2020 had the highest infant death rate of counties within the target populations (Bristol, Suffolk and Worcester), which is twice as high for Black mothers as it is for White mothers (US Health, Resources and Services Administration)

9.5%

of babies born were low birth weight 

on the Southcoast, compared to 7.4% in the state and 8.2% in the US in 2020 (MA Department of Public Health Registry of Vital Records and Statistics)

4.9%

born to mothers
between the ages of 15 and 19 

on the Southcast, compared to 2.1% of births to mothers less than 20 years of age in the same year for the state, compared to 15.4 per 1,000 females ages 15-19 in the US overall in 2020 (MA Department of Public Health Registry of Vital Records and Statistics)

100.4 per 10,000 deliveries in 2020 

From 52.3 per 10,000 deliveries in 2011 to

The Massachusetts’ 2023 report of  Racial Inequities in Maternal Health, shows the rate of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) for birthing people increased significantly between 2011 and 2020. For Black, non-Hispanic birthing people the rate of SMM in 2011 was twice that of white, non-Hispanic birthing people and by 2020 it was 2.5 times higher, a 25 % increase over the decade.