Julie is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Owner/Educator at Midwives Untethered. She travels across the country providing education to midwives, EMS providers, and birth workers. She helps them to refine NRP with limited numbers of staff and community based resources and settings. 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. She is driven to serve/guide midwives, birth workers, EMS and all caregivers to optimize their care and their own well-being.  She knows the key to this is care givers 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 guards physiologic birth and the traditions of midwifery, while advocating for safe, quality care.