About the provider

Medina Walker

Medina is a woman with many titles: wife, mother, midwife assistant, Maryland licensed massage therapist (Lic#R03337), certified birth doula, and accomplished author, to name a few. Her unrelenting devotion to women’s health and wellness is matched only by her fiery desire to make a difference in the world. She is a graduate of the "Holistic Massage Training Institute" and has more than 4 years of experience doing prenatal, fertility, infant, postpartum massage, and helping women heal from chronic neck and lower back pain. She attended Anne Arundel Community College and Western Governors University ,she currently takes midwifery classes at the National College of Midwifery. She has experience attending home births, hospital births, and student midwife apprenticing under a licensed midwife. Medina’s journey began with the birth of her first child, which went off without a hitch and taught her the value of a strong community of caretakers. Her second birth experience was not as supportive, and subsequently she knew she was destined to work in women’s health to ensure that women have access to support and care taking. In 2022, The Shades of Blue Project honored Medina with the prestigious Good Heart Award during Black Maternal Health Week for her outstanding work in the birthing community. The Shades of Blue Project is dedicated to helping women of color before, during and after child-birth with community resources, mental health advocacy, treatment and support. Medina has also appeared in many esteemed magazines and publications, such as Motherly, Beauty Boost Baltimore, and Voyage Baltimore.

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