Montse Olmos
Montse Olmos is a Mexican educator with roots in collective care and indigenous liberation. After many years of living in the States she decided to return back home to Mexico. She has a virtual educational space that is rooted in her own personal, lived experience and the expertise she has developed over a decade of being a care giver to birthing people.
Montse Olmos was born in Mexico City and grew up in the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. She comes from a mixed lineage and is a 3rd generation migrant across state & national colonial borders. She proudly identifies as Totonaca & Nahuatl.
Montse began her formal doula studies at Ancient Song Doula Services in Brooklyn, but by ancestral inheritance, Montse is a full spectrum birth companion and the granddaughter of traditional midwives & healers. She created the first-of-its-kind online course titled, Cultural Appropriation in Rebozo Work, which addresses the decolonial history of this sacred textile and connects it to anti-racism education.
Montse is also an international speaker on Indigenous sovereignty and autonomy as well as issues such as extractivism and the commodification of Indigenous knowledge and traditions. She has presented her work at the National Midwifery Institute, The Educated Birth and the SIAParto Conference in Brazil, to name a few. Currently, Montse is an abortion educator at DOPO, a UK-based organization dedicated to providing abortion support and educational resources to all gender birthing people.
In addition, she provides mentorship to other doulas at the Manhattan Birth Mentorship Program. When she’s not investing her time as a mentor and educator, Montse cultivates corn, beans, squash and medicinal herbs along with her family. She honors the intersection between agriculture and midwifery that runs in her maternal lineage because both practices are focused on cultivating life & trusting the unseen.
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