Kestrel Gates
Author & Founder, based in Oregon, US.

Mother, community member, and maternal health advocate.

You can read more here.

Juliana Alves
Portuguese translator, Ambassador for Portugal, Spain, & the Spanish translation
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I am a nurse and my profession has allowed me to accompany women in very difficult situations during their postpartum period. In recent years I have dedicated myself to the fight against obstetric violence.

I'm a Brazilian from Curitiba, who currently lives in Jerez de La Frontera, in southern Spain. And this is where I hope to continue the work of supporting women, providing quality information, and always helping to build networks around women and their perinatally.

Marissa Bolaños
Spanish translator
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Originally from the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, is an audiovisual artist, writer, and guardian of birth. She has worked in the birth field since 2013 as a doula, perinatal educator, and documentary photographer.

She recently started the podcast “La Revolución del Parto” which centers on stories of Spanish-speaking families giving birth outside the hospital and explores issues of obstetric violence, immigration, access to health care, and bodily autonomy.

Elsa Martineau
French translator
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Elsa became a Yoga-Doula in 2017 after going through her own journey as a mother. She is the secretary and french coordinator of the Postnatal Support Network (PSN), an international organization based in the Netherlands engaged in addressing the importance of a well-prepared and relaxing 40-day postnatal period.

She is originally from northern France and after several years living abroad, is now based in Montpellier in southern France.

Dr. Francesca La Vecchia
Italian translator, Ambassador in Italy
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I am a psychotherapist and mum from Italy. For my first pregnancy, I was totally unprepared. The birth and postpartum time were so hard that they left a deep, invisible scar under my skin. I wanted my next pregnancy to be different.

Finding the Build Your Nest workbook helped to make my second birth calmer and my postpartum time so nourishing. I wanted to offer as many women as possible the same opportunity and joined the Build Your Nest team.