Meet Our Team

The Colorado Midwives Association supports and promotes the option of homebirth for families in Colorado. The CMA facilitates communication and community amongst direct-entry midwives through conferences and workshops. Direct-entry midwives have been legal in Colorado since 1993 due to the efforts of the CMA and supporting community. The CMA strives to be a legislative force behind maintaining and updating the regulations of direct-entry midwifery in Colorado.
Mission
The mission of the Colorado Midwives Association is to support direct-entry midwifery through advocacy, continuing education, and community awareness.
Vision
Midwifery care will be an integral part of the healthcare system and home birth will be a widely accepted option. Midwives and other maternity healthcare providers will work collaboratively with professional respect, trust, and mutual goals in providing excellent care.
Purpose

• The CMA advances home birth midwifery care as an accessible option to families in Colorado.
• The CMA provides educational and informational resources, as well as opportunities to midwives in Colorado.
• The CMA advocates for laws and policies that promote best practices in midwifery care.
• The CMA expects midwives to provide excellent quality of care using the Midwives Model of Care, MANA statement of values and ethics and Colorado State Rules and Regulations as their guide.

Kattie Jones

Treasurer

​Born and raised in Mexico, to a large family most of whom had home-births. Kattie is fluent in Spanish and English! She was born into the hands of a midwife, and that very same midwife caught Kattie’s first daughter. Kattie did her internship in Montana where she assisted both homebirths and birth center births.
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Kattie is passionate about serving the Latino community in homebirths and lactation. Kattie chose to serve on the CMA Board to help support her fellow Midwives and future Midwives in Colorado. She integrates your dreams and desires for an ideal birth with safe, evidence-based care and experience.

Jennifer Dossett

Membership

Jennifer Barr

Legislative ChaIR

Jennifer Barr RM, CPM, CLC  vice president she/her

Jennifer has re-joined the board in the fall of 2018 (having served previously from 2002-2007) with a profound desire to continue the work her foremothers did to secure ever-improving legislation by being the midwife lobbyist in the upcoming sunset review and sense of responsibility for the future of midwifery in Colorado.  She brings to the organization a belief that access to health care is a basic human right and plans to be a part of the board and organization becoming more consciously and overtly anti-racist.

Jennifer became a homebirth midwife in 2009 after a 13 year journey through the PEP process which formally began in 1996 at Maternidad La Luz (maternidadlaluz.com) in El Paso, TX and completed with an apprenticeship and internship in the Denver and Boulder areas.  She holds a BA in Religion from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and has been a craniosacral therapist for 20 years.  She studied craniosacral and somatic therapy with Anna & John Chitty at the Colorado School of Energy Studies (energyschool.com) and Prenatal and Birth Therapy with Ray Castellino (castellinotraining.com) which she weaves into the trauma-aware, evidence-based care that she provides.  She had the opportunity to study with many wonderful senior midwives throughout her training in both birth center and home birth settings.  Jennifer has served on the board of International Midwife Assistance (midwifeassist.org) since its inception in 2005.  IMA’s mission is to raise the standard of maternal/infant care in areas experiencing crisis and currently funds a birth center in Soroti, Uganda.  

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