For the past three decades she has supported healthy birth outcomes as a DONA International Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainer, Lamaze Childbirth Educator, and Founder of Mother Tree International. She has supported thousands of families and doulas in the childbearing year.

As a leader in the field, she was the lead doula on the clinical design team for Providence Health Systems Pregnancy Care Package and became the first staff doula of their integrated healthcare model. She is a founding board member of the Oregon Doula Association (ODA) since 2013, six years as Policy and Advocacy Chair and is the current Education Chair.

She has presented ODA as liaison to the State of Oregon Traditional Healthcare Workers Systems Integration subcommittee at the Oregon Health Authority working on creating sustainable systems of doula support within the system. She has worked for multiple health systems to improve health equity. She is the founding Facebook Power Admin of Doula Talk, a thriving social media group of over 17k members. Jesse is also the Executive Director for the sister doula groups: Gateway Doula Group affiliated Women’s Health Associates and PDX Doulas affiliated with Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU).

Over the past 15 years she has trained birth professionals internationally from Iceland, Germany, Mexico and Spain and across the United States. She became passionate about the models developing in Trauma Informed Care (trained with TIC Oregon Trainer program) and how they apply directly towards health care equity across diverse populations, specifically people of color.

Jesse has a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Oregon, prior career in education, leadership, marketing, hospitality, team building, business best practices. She grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and thus believes that every part of the process is important to know intimately.

She has training as a professional midwife, is a mother of two teen boys and is dedicated to promoting the health and wellbeing of families in the first 1000 days. She herself experienced Postpartum Depression and Anxiety with both Postpartum periods and tributes a journey into nature in the remote Lower Columbia Gorge basin as part of her healing journey.

She’s become a Certified Forest Therapy Guide with the Association and Nature and Forest Therapy and leads groups and corporate teams on Forest Bathing Walks. In her spare time she tends her garden and a menagerie of Farm Animals including the “IG famous” Rocky the Donkey who does Donkey Therapy.