Tigist Ejeta CPM, LM

Tigist is a home birth midwife and midwife advocate currently living in Boise, Idaho. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Direct Entry Midwifery and a master’s degree in Maternal and Reproductive Health Nursing from Ethiopia. She brings her international experience of working as a midwife educator and an autonomous direct entry midwife who has worked both in hospitals and birth centers. In her practice, Odaa Birth, LLC Midwifery Services, Tigist has dedicated herself to provide evidence-based midwifery care to pregnant women of color and all women seeking her care.

Tigist got her NARM certification through an Internationally Educated Midwife PEP route after more than five frustrating years and understands the hardship midwife students; especially black midwife students go through to become a midwife. As a midwife who had worked autonomously with full autonomy through a practice that is integrated in the health care system, she clearly understands what is lacking in the US for community midwives and is passionate to work on building a system that supports community midwifery. Carrying the wisdom of all midwife ancestors and recognizing the roles played by activist community midwives, her hope is for CPMs and all community midwives to get recognition federally and that community midwifery education gets recognition and accreditation nationally so that midwives work freely and autonomously providing care in their full capacity and for all families to have the freedom to choose their place of birth and that midwifery model of care becomes rightfully accessible to all.