Team NUR

Nuranisa Rae

NUR Director

Nuranisa’s calling to open this space came from her birth work and from being raised with a strong sense of community. After witnessing years of medicalized and manipulated birth, Nuranisa began her home birth practice and became the Director of Maternal Health at the 1789 Fund which serves to support maternity practices to midwives and nurses in Nepal.

Her work in home birth and in global maternal health has empowered her to share her experiences, promote self-care, understanding of ones self, physiological birth and advocate for change as we witness a true maternal health crisis. What she brings into the creation of this space is what she has learn from the hundreds of diverse families and individuals she has cared for. Nuranisa promotes the ancient cultures of community and tribe in the space, where people can truly gather, share ideas and care for one another.

Nuranisa believes that we each have our own path, our own light that guides us to what we need to do as we walk this earth. That light is the NUR.

Kayla Bert

Administrator & Student Midwife

Kayla is a full-spectrum doula and student midwife. Her doula care is wide-ranging and highly tailored. It might be working with people to identify the right birth control or supporting folks through the first few months of parenthood. She graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with Bachelor of Science in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality, and Psychology. At Penn State, she studied reproductive justice theorized by women of color, which deepened her belief that doula and midwifery care is revolutionary work. In addition to doula-ing, she worked in feminist publishing—first, as a writer for the reproductive health platform Allbodies, and administrator for Dottir Press. Now, she is in nurse-midwifery school at Columbia University. Kayla looks forward to meeting and supporting all those who walk through the welcoming doors of NUR Space.