Perinatal Portfolio

Affiliation Note: Spiral Birth Perinatal Health & Equity is an independent maternal health education platform. Organizational names listed on this site reflect Victoria’s employment, contracted teaching assignments, coordination, training, or collaborative roles. Unless expressly stated, these organizations are not operated, represented, affiliated with, or endorsed by Spiral Birth.

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Institutional Role

  • Regional Coordinator for Emory University’s ECHO Project

  • Research Assistant for Morehouse School of Medicine on current CORAL Project in collaboration with Emory University

  • Program Coordinator for Morehouse School of Medicine on upcoming Georgia SAFE Project research, starting December 2025

Contracted Teaching & Training Roles

  • Doula Certification Instructor for Mercer University’s South Georgia Healthy Start staff through Spiral Birth’s own 13-week designed doula program. Topics included: History, Types & Roles of Doulas, Consultations, Contracts & Liabilities, Birth Plans, Partner Support, Common Pain Interventions, Prenatal Visits, Supporting High Risk Births, Food & Nutrition, Stages of Labor, Death in Birthwork. Perinatal Grief & PMADs, Perinatal Paternal Disorders, Postpartum Planning, Lactation Education, Period Care, Chronic Reproductive Disorders, Community Birthwork, and Contemporary Issues in Birthwork

  • Georgia SASS Instructor: Teaching free, grant-funded classes on abortion and miscarriage management statewide

  • Digital Defense Fund Instructor: Teaching free, grant-funded digital security classes for reproductive health & justice organizations nationwide

Organizational Coordination/Regional Work

  • Regional Expansion Development Coordinator (In Progress) for Motherhood Beyond Bars: Working as a liaison between the organization and the local region’s county jails to assist in the establishment of their weekly childbirth education programs, care coordination, and other diversion opportunity programming within the jails at no cost to the institutions due to grant funding.

    Role also includes assisting with identifying childbirth educators to teach the organization’s curriculum and identifying perinatal strengths and barriers in each region for resource navigation.

  • If/When/How Network Member: Regional contact for assistance with resource navigation for pregnancy criminalization cases; provide assistance with selected research studies and also provide digital security trainings for criminal defense attorneys and advocates.

  • Ipas: Serving on the Regional Doula Knowledge Council

Collaborations and relationships with additional organizations in progress and formalizing