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Juliet Swedlund is the director of the Topeka Doula Project, a nonprofit offering evidence based doula support to teen mothers, incarcerated and reintegrating mothers, and low-income mothers and their families. Juliet has worked as a birth doula for four years, and has 16 years experience working in health and wellness. She achieved her DONA Birth Doula certification in 2016, and became an Evidence Based Birth\\xae Instructor in 2018.

Juliet discusses her organization\\u2019s beginnings and her inspirations, as well as the unique challenges of the underserved populations she works with. \\u201cSome of the women I work with who are incarcerated\\u2026 so much is out of their control, and they do feel like the system gets to decide what it looks like,\\u201d she said. \\u201cSo part of our job as doulas for those women is to help them understand that they can take an active role in what they do have control over - in what they can find autonomy in in that birth setting.\\u201d She and Rebecca also discuss funding strategies for non-profits.\\xa0

Learn more about Juliet and her work at her website. You can also follow Topeka Doula Project on Facebook and Instagram. Contact Juliet at julietswedlund@topekadoula.org.

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