who i am

(picture of mai'a)

• life long learning about reproductive health and justice and listening to people’s stories about their connections with their bodies.
• an outlaw midwife
• passionate about herbal and self-induced abortions.
• honor the privacy of others.
• a birth worker, poet, journalist, visual artist, performer, vocalist,dancer, and organizer.
• lived and worked in Chiapas, Mexico, Palestine and traveled to the Congo,Uganda, Burundi, and Ethiopia on a research delegation about the effects of war on women.
• worked as the Regional Training Coordinator for a human rights NGO.
• has organized and accompanied communities and persons within the domestic urban landscape, engaging in issues including: race, working poor, sex work, prisons, drug addiction, police brutality, and queer rights; also organized domestically and internationally around global issues.
• raised in the Washington, DC area.
• currently resides in Cairo, Egypt with my partner, habibi, and my daughter, aza theresa.