Sabia is standing and looking at the camera in a yellow dress with her right hand framing her face.

She/They.

Black.

CEO.

Author.

Investor.

Educator.

Full-spectrum Doula.

Expander of Black Luxury.

She/They. Black. CEO. Author. Investor. Educator. Full-spectrum Doula. Expander of Black Luxury.

Sabia’s mission: help others build a greater awareness and understanding of reproductive justice and how it connects to all systems through care work, education, and community expressed through seven self-directed ventures.

The Seven Ventures

Sabia’s focus on reproductive justice has birthed an extensive body of work, diverse in format and far-reaching. Like the planets around the Sun, each has its own focus on a different aspect of her values, yet still maintains orbit around her passion and values.

Sabia's personal brand and parent holding company. The throughline of her public voice, her leadership, and her presence in the world — the name and frame through which everything else moves.
A 12-week full spectrum doula certification program offered in spring and fall cohorts. BADT trains doulas with clinical skill, cultural grounding, and reproductive justice at the center — building a workforce of care workers equipped to show up for the full arc of reproductive life.
A capital access and investment ecosystem for BIPOC entrepreneurs and liberatory businesses. Sabia serves as Chief Strategy Officer and is stepping into an Interim CEO role — bringing her pattern recognition, strategic systems thinking, and liberation lens to how capital flows and who it reaches.
A reproductive health policy organization where Sabia serves as Board President. ReproTLC works at the intersection of advocacy, policy, and systemic change — because access without policy is always fragile.
A nonprofit rooted in reproductive justice and community care infrastructure. Sabia founded For The Village to ensure that Black and brown families have access to doula support regardless of income. She is now transitioning into a paid advisory role as new executive leadership takes the helm.
Sabia's debut book — published and available now — presents reproductive justice as the pathway to collective equity, tracing how centering BIPOC birthing people opens possibilities for healing that reach far beyond the birthing room. Praised by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, Birthing Liberation established Sabia as a defining voice in the reproductive justice literary canon. Her second book is currently in progress.
Rooted in ancestral land in Chadbourn, NC that has been in Sabia's family for generations, Gertrude Magnolia is the physical and spiritual home of Sabia's healing work. Tend & Mend, her herbal wellness and body care line, carries that lineage into everyday practice — offering plant-based products rooted in ancestral knowledge and clinical herbalism training. The land is also the future home of The Herbalism School, a three-phase educational vision moving from virtual to hybrid to fully in-person, dedicated to making plant-based healing knowledge accessible across communities. A documentary about the family's history on the land is in development — because the origin story deserves to be told.

Through liberation of self, we keep the liberation of all in focus.

Sabia was called to birthwork after witnessing the variance in quality of treatment and outcomes across races while working in hospitals and across the medical industrial complex.

Inspired, she shifted her career path from a desire to support people through nursing to advocating for reproductive justice as a Full Spectrum Doula.

Every part of Sabia’s work points back to Reproductive Justice as the solution to building systems, patterns, and defying expectations in ways that allow possibilities for shifting the dominance of capitalism and racism within the ways we exist as a society.

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Volunteered as a doula for the Prison Birth Project supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people with substance abuse disorders before, during, and after birth.

2015

2018

Founded For the Village, a nonprofit organization that provides doulas at no or low cost to underserved communities in the greater San Diego community.

2019

Founded Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings after not finding a doula training program that reflected who they were. She wanted a doula training program that centered BIPOC & queer-centered, Justice-Oriented, culturally-humble education for birthworkers.

2023

Published my first book (of many), Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free.

The medical industrial complex is just one of the intricate and intentional systems that enacts harm upon Black and brown and queer and trans bodies.

Care Work. Future Thinking. Innovation. Action.

Birth Neoterist (n.)

a person who is forward-focused and dedicated to innovation and sustainability to create a pathway to a new reality for birth.

Sabia gets tired of talking about the statistics. About what a doula does and why it’s important.

We know the system is not built to serve all people equally. Doulas are serving as bandaids for a backwards system that refuses to see the birthing person holistically.

The system does not slow down, does not allow for connection, for seeing multiple sides of the scenario—it’s all one track minded, policy & profit driven.

To shift the conversations to action and impact, Sabia started to search for a term that represented the conversation past the numbers.

Yes, we know the numbers, now what are we going to DO about it.

Sabia’s goal is to create spaces for BIPOC and queer & trans birthing people to feel heard and seen.

Sabia is sitting, striking a confident pose in a yellow dress.

On Black Luxury

Sabia believes that pleasure is a key component to being here, on this earth, and in these bodies.

She is an advocate for creating, seeking, and practicing pleasure in ways that are accessible to you.

When we love, when we laugh, when we find pleasure inside ourselves, our community, in what we eat, do, how we play, we access it less from outside ourselves, we engage less with the so-called-rules of capitalism, colonialism, and consumerism that we are conditioned to follow.