Staff

Greta Fay

Office Manager

Greta is a doula and yoga instructor, passionate about the birth experience and amazed by the transformation of mamas and their partners.  She has a bachelor’s degree in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies from the University of Minnesota.  Greta believes that birth is a natural function of a woman’s body and that every woman already has the skills she needs to give birth in her own way.  She loves being apart of the Health Foundations community of midwives, mamas, and birth partners! She enjoys eating yummy food, drinking delicious coffee, being outside, and spending time with her loud loving large family.

Aubrey Wicks

Receptionist

Aubrey is a doula, who is passionate about informed birth choices and helping babies have a gentle entrance into the world.  She is amazed by a woman’s natural, instinctual ability to birth. She is thankful to be surrounded by like-minded women at Health Foundations and excited to come to know all of the families. Aubrey is the mother to four very active, loving boys, two were born at the hospital and two at home in the water. Aubrey's last (and best!) birth was attended by Amy Johnson-Grass.  She loves being outside with her husband Torin and their boys. They enjoy traveling, eating adventurous food and quiet nights at home.

Jill Carlson RN
Midwifery Assistant, Clinic & Postpartum Nurse

After graduating in 2000 from Iowa Wesleyan College, Jill started her career as a Labor & Delivery nurse.  Throughout the past 10 years she has helped families both in and out of hospital welcome their babies into the world.  Jill believes that families should get to choose the birth of their choice and that the most important decision they can make in birth is to choose a provider that will help them become more educated on the miracle of pregnancy and prepare them for birth and beyond.  Having had her daughter Maria at home more then 7 years ago, Jill feels blessed to be a part of the Health Foundations family and can't wait to get to know all of the families who call Health Foundations home!

When not at work Jill enjoys time with her daughter Maria and husband Chris.  The three of them love being outside with their dog Bob and on the boat... and though Jill and Maria are mainly spectators, they enjoy spending time out on the water with a book in the sun.  Jill loves reading, music, art, gardening and spending time with her family.

Miranda Daby, RN, IBCLC Candidate
Postpartum Nurse 

Miranda is a registered nurse experienced in caring for families postpartum.  She earned both a Master's in Nursing and a Bachelor's degree in Child Psychology from the University of Minnesota.  She has a specific interest in helping women and babies breastfeed and sees breastfeeding as such a special way to bond with and nourish a baby.  Miranda believes that educating families to care for each other and know what to expect after they have a baby empowers them to raise healthy families. 

Miranda enjoys her free time with her husband and their two young children.  Miranda loves being with her family and friends, spending time outdoors, cooking, baking, gardening, and camping.

Cassie Evenson RN

Midwifery Assistant & Postpartum Nurse

Cassie graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2002 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. After working for Cargill for a year, she decided that she needed a career change and was most interested in working with and helping people.  Cassie attended the University of Iowa for nursing and graduated in 2006. Since then she has been working in the hospital setting on a Family Centered Care Unit which consists of postpartum, pediatrics, special care nursery, and gynecologic surgery patients.  She has always been amazed and fascinated with pregnancy and the birthing process.  Cassie believes that giving birth naturally is extremely empowering and liberating for a woman.  She is grateful to be joining the Health-Foundations team and is looking forward to helping families create their own amazing birth stories!! Cassie enjoys spending relaxing days at home with her husband and their two young kids.  She also enjoys having play dates, going to classes at the Y, reading, traveling, and cooking & baking (and eating!).

Cinthia Fondrk RN
Midwifery Assistant

Emily Rumsey CNA

Midwifery Assistant 

Emily is a graduate student of nursing at the University of Minnesota, studying to become a nurse-midwife. Emily has worked as a doula in the Twin Cities since 2008, attending both hospital and out-of-hospital births. She has also completed a one-year internship with a local nurse-midwife, shadowing both prenatal and follow-up care in a clinical setting. During her internship, Emily produced new prenatal education materials for the clinic; she wrote the text, produced the photographs, and designed the finished layout for a ten-topic series of brochures. Emily graduated from UW-Madison with double majors of English and Film production and a minor in Women's Studies. With a professional background in media communication, Emily respects the power of helping families educate themselves about pregnancy, childbirth, newborn health, and parenting using not only books, but multimedia resources as well.

Emily has found true joy as a doula, helping growing families feel supported and informed in their experience of birth. She has also enjoyed helping families document and archive their pregnancies and births as a photographer. Working at Health Foundations feels like a perfect fit for Emily, blending her experience as a support person with her clinical training as a nursing student. Emily feels blessed to be a part of a birth environment that both honors the experience of birth and blends wisdom of multiple models of care.

Amanda graduated from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 2007 where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women's Studies and a minor in Cultural Studies. Her fascination with women's healthcare and choices around birth began here, and has been the driving force in her path to midwifery. After graduation, Amanda lived and worked in various parts of the world, all the while nurturing a wish to redirect her life's path toward supporting women during their childbearing year. Upon her return to Minnesota in 2009, Amanda received her training as a birth doula and began her midwifery training at Birthwise Midwifery School in Bridgton, Maine. The three-year midwifery program includes comprehensive medical courses, training in healthcare skills, and hands-on experiences in the art and science of midwifery. She is delighted to serve as a midwifery apprentice at Health Foundations as she works towards the requirements for the credential of Certified Professional Midwife (CPM).    

Rochelle Matos

Educator

Rochelle teaches the bi-monthly Early Home Care class for Health Foundations.  Rochelle believes that natural birth is the most amazing way to first meet your child face to face and is passionate about helping couples enjoy the first moments as a new family.  She draws her experience from her own four births which vary from home to hospital, land to water, emergency to well-assisted.  She also began teaching the Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth in 2007 and became a DONA certified Doula in 2010.  She has a bachelor's degree from the University of St. Thomas in Catholic Studies.  She is thrilled to be a part of the dynamic team at Health Foundations in preparing families for postpartum.  

Rochelle is the mother of four young children whom she homeschools.  When she is not busy with the kids, Rochelle enjoys gardening, sewing, cooking and house projects.  She and her husband live in Como Park, St. Paul.