Heather Walker is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM). She is licensed to practice midwifery in Maryland (2024) & Virginia (2023).
She currently practices midwifery as part of the group practice at BirthCare & Women's Health.
She is the owner & founder of Radical Roots Midwifery & Birth, through which she provides community childbirth services & products. ​
Coming from a Jamaican-American
background & raised traveling the world in the US Navy, Heather has been deeply influenced by her multi-cultural heritage & experience.
Experiencing pregnancy & childbirth as a single black woman in the USA showed her first hand the maternal healthcare disparities that impact our communities.
Through her exposure & dedication to healing arts, then becoming the mother of two daughters who were both born at home - her calling to serve womxn throughout the childbearing year unfolded.
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Phase 1 Observation Clinical placement with Premier Birth Center, Chantilly. 2017
Primary Under Supervision Clinical placement with Blue Sage Midwifery. 2020
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Primary Under Supervision Clinical placement with Sage Midwifery. 2022
These include: Lactation Consultation, Labor/Birth Doula, Perinatal Community Health, Community Birth Work, Newborn Care, Vaginal Steam Therapy, Traditional Belly Binding & Traditional Kemetic Healing Arts. ​
She attended a MEAC-accredited Bachelor of Science Midwifery program at the Midwives College of Utah & completed her clinical training with several independent home-birth & birth-center midwifery practices throughout the DMV. She was trained as an apprentice under both CNM’s & CPM’s.
Before entering the field of Maternal Healthcare, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science & Africana Studies from New York University & was a teacher at a NYC non-profit at-risk youth program.
She began her journey as a Birth Assistant (BA) & doula in 2010 in Brooklyn, NY & has been serving as a Community Birth Worker in the DMV since 2014.
In addition to her CPM qualification, Heather has trained or been certified in a n array of skills that enhance her expertise in the field. ​
Radical Roots Midwifery & Birth, LLC is an inclusive, evidence-based & trauma-informed practice that is committed to providing access to childbirth services. Radical Roots is proudly black-woman owned & operated.
Inspired by a family legacy of healing arts, Radical Roots was born through the unfolding of a calling to serve & the need for radical change in societal childbirth practices.
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