Efe Osaren (she/her) is a direct-entry trained traditional midwife who has been working in holistic birthwork since 2014. She has completed her training and certification as a full spectrum Doula with DONA, The Doula Project, and Ancient Song Doula Services.
Her direct entry midwifery apprenticeships have been done with Maternindad La Luz, Borderlands Birth Education and Advocacy Project, Crimson Fig Midwifery, and Dyekora Sumda Midwifery. She has been mentored by renowned Midwives Jennie Joseph, Jamarah Armani, and Racha Tahani Lawler Queen. She has served over 250 families in Houston, NYC, Salt Lake City, and El Paso. She has also done diasporic work in Mexico, Uganda, South Africa, and Ghana. An avid Reproductive and Birth Justice Advocate, Efe is the Founder of Doula Chronicles, a reproductive education platform for communities of color, that focuses on holistic uterine health and reproductive justice education, which has evolved into Orishe Midwifery. She is a co-founder of Homecoming, a collective of BIPOC Queer+Trans birthworkers and healers. Efe Osaren is an audacious visionary and luminary leader who charges others with boldness, determination, and volition while at the same time inspiring groundedness that is embodied. Efe is a trailblazer who shapes both intellectual and ideological questions from wisdom, evidence-based data, and qualitative research that is anchored in making an impact and taking research to the next level of action. As a full spectrum Birthworker and community advocate, Efe is a spirited and innovative expert and thinker. Her advocacy work always maintains a strong focus on the inclusion of community rights, voice, anti-oppression, and agency. Efe currently volunteers all of her time for the mission of the project. She likes solo traveling, handbuilding pottery, and hot yoga without the Bikram.