Katherine E. Paxton

Kate Paxton is a midwife who loves advocating for safe physiologic childbirth and liberatory healthcare for families. She has been attending birth in various capacities for a decade and has been a nurse-midwife for five years. She has experience assisting women in the home, birth center and hospital settings. Kate has a keen interest in the midwifery history in Louisiana and supporting independent midwifery practice, worldwide.
 

As a collaborator with the Cachet Program, Kate has been a tireless researcher on the history of midwifery and birth work practices in Louisiana. Through tedious combing of Times Picayune archives, reading everything available on the subject and interviews with historians - Kate will be bringing us a wealth of information in both podcast and panel discussion form.